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Tis the season for making homemade gifts, at least at our house!

A few days ago, I had a mom's night out at my house and we made all kinds of homemade gifts like lotion bars, vapor rub lotion bars (recipe soon!) and homemade lipstick.

The lipstick was the biggest hit and it was so much fun to create our own customized flavors, scents and colors with natural ingredients like (click on the link to see the exact brand I used):

We made dozens of tubes of lipstick for pennies each and they will be great gifts and stocking stuffers this year. I'm also packaging up some ingredients to give as DIY lip balm and lipstick kits to friends and family.

Homemade Lipstick Recipe

Some natural products can take time to get used to, like natural shampoo and it can be tough to find the right mixture for your hair, but homemade lipstick is completely customizable and works better than the store bought right away.

You can make them in plastic lipstick tubes or little plastic lip balm containers. If you want to keep it simple, little glass jars also work. Here's how to make it:

Natural Lipstick Ingredients:

2 tablespoons coconut oil

2 tablespoons shea butter or cocoa butter

3 tablespoons beeswax

10 drops essential oil of choice

1/2 tsp (or more) mica powder of choice

Natural Lipstick Instructions:

1. Melt coconut oil, shea or cocoa butter and beeswax in a double boiler.

2. Remove from heat.

3. Stir in Mica Powder and essential oils of choice. Dip the end of a spoon into the mixture and let it harden for a few seconds.

4. Test the color and scent with your finger or on the skin of your wrist to make sure you like it. Add more if needed.

5. Use a pipette or glass dropper to quickly transfer the mixture to the lip gloss containers or whatever container you are using.

6. Let cool for 1 hour. Cap and use as needed.

What homemade beauty products have you made?

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Natural Shimmer Lipstick Recipe | Wellness Mama

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Tis the season for making homemade gifts, at least at our house! A few days ago, I had a mom's night out at my house and we made all kinds of homemade gifts like lotion bars, vapor rub lotion bars (recipe soon!) and homemade lipstick.

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1 spoon of Aloevera gell

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Hello friends I share here my easy to use Hair care,skin care, & some awesome tips & tricks for all .you can use all describe methods and can see the differe...

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~beeswax pastilles
~Shea/coco butter
~coconut butter
CRAYON LIPSTICK
~crayons
~coconut oil
VASELINE LIPSTICK
~Vaseline
~any lipstick
~almond oil
~any flavoring

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I will be using them on myself and on my friend yoselyn.

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I will be making diffrent methods that people say you can make lipstick to see if they work. I will get the information and the ingredients on a website. I will basically be testing different lipsticks.

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I will be making diffrent methods that people say you can make lipstick to see if they work. I will get the information and the ingredients on a website. I will basically be testing different lipsticks.

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I found these ingredients on some websites and videos i found

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I know what my products are and i understand if they are going to take a while to put together and test.

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I want to know if the websites i got it from work and i also want to know if there products will help the skin.

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I am going to research what I need for this project.
I am going to buy all the ingredients  I need.
Make them by the steps on websites.
Then I am going to test them out on somebody.

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I am using google to find some information about my topic. I found some videos on how to make lipstick and concealer. I think the videos helped me found a lot of information because it shows the materials i need ad how to do it. I still wonder if you can make lipstick with just stuff you have at home and i wonder if my project is going to work.

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For my project i will be using science and math. I will be using math for the measurement of my products. I will be using Science for mixtures and chemicals in my ingredients. 

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For my project i will be using science and math. I will be using math for the measurement of my products. I will be using Science for mixtures and chemicals in my ingredients. 

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How to Make Crayon Lipstick with Vaseline and Olive Oil [2015]

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1.put 2 tablespoons (30 grams) of petroleum jelly into a small, microwave safe bowl. 

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1.put 2 tablespoons (30 grams) of petroleum jelly into a small, microwave safe bowl. 

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2. Cut a small piece of lipstick and put it in the bowl.
3.Microwave  for 30 seconds , until fully melted.
4.Stir the mixture with a spoon until it is smooth.
5. Add a few drops of almond oil and 3 to 5 drops of flavoring.

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I can ask a make up stylist in a store. I am asking them because they use a lot of products and they use make up on people. 

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I can ask a make up stylist in a store. I am asking them because they use a lot of products and they use make up on people. 

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I Will talk to them by the end of next week.

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1. What inspired you?
2. How much money do you make?
3. Whats your favorite make up product?

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This lipstick will be more of a lip bomb with color. It moisturizes  your lips and it is healthier for your lips

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Some lipsticks are bad for the lips because the chemicals in it.

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School supplies → cuteness enhancers.

Lipstick is very important to me. Wearing lots of it is one of my core mission values. Whether it's a cheap Wet n Wild shade or an outrageously expensive Anna Sui lipstick ring, whether it comes from Walgreens or Sephora, I've never met a lip color I didn't love, and I will admit to a serious lipstick-buying habit. But sometimes, no matter how much lipstick I've already squirreled away, no matter how many shades I have...something's missing. Usually this feeling happens when I decide that the shade I need for a particular look is not to be found in my makeup bag. Maybe it doesn't even exist! All my reds are too pink, my burgundies not evil enough. And often in these moments, I have neither the time to pop by Sephora nor $24 to drop on a new lipstick.

With Halloween coming, I was cruising the drugstore aisles in search of a new color. I needed a blue lipstick-not just any blue, but a very specific shade of blue: Laura-Palmer-on-a-gurney blue. But I couldn't find anything even close to that color. On the way out of the store, I stopped in the school supply section for some pens, and that's when I saw it: a 64-pack of Crayola crayons.

Hmmmmmm. Weren't crayons made out of highly pigmented, nontoxic wax? Weren't crayons so safe that babies eat them and grow up to be productive members of society? What if...I melted down a crayon with an oil, poured it into a mold, and made...DIY CRAYON LIPSTICK IN EVERY SHADE OF THE RAINBOW??? WHAT THEN?

I went home immediately and googled it. Ahh, people had already beat me to this idea; there were several recipes for crayon lipstick already on the web. I made my own recipe, though, and tinkered around with it until it was just right, so I'm still gonna call this version MY IDEA. Here we go!
To make one shade of crayon lipstick, you will need:

One whole crayon-preferably Crayola. I tried this with a cheap crayon from a restaurant and the result was too waxy. In this tutorial, I'm using crayons from a 64-crayon box of Crayola crayons, and let me tell you, opening that new box and inhaling was like being back at the first day of kindergarten.

½ teaspoon coconut oil. (You can get coconut oil at the grocery store. It usually comes in a jar or a plastic tub and is solid and opaque white at room temperature.)

¼ teaspoon olive oil or other vegetable oil.

Paper towels.

A small glass bowl or a jelly jar that has an opening big enough to put your hand into.

A cutting board covered with a paper towel.

A butter knife.

A pot to boil water in.

A tool for stirring: a chopstick works well. Just make sure it's not made of plastic or any other material that will melt in boiling water.

A mold of some kind for your lipstick. I used a contact case (for adorableness and portability!) and some of those days-of-the-week plastic pill boxes you can get at the drugstore or dollar store.

How to make it:
1. Choose a color for your lipstick. The darker and/or more vibrant the crayon color, the better the results-I'm using Red Violet here.

2. Peel the paper label off. It will come off really easily if you run it under warm water for a few seconds first.

3. Fill your pot with, say, four inches of water and turn the heat on high to get the water boiling, then reduce the heat to low to medium, so that the water keeps boiling but isn't spurting all over the place.

4. Put ½ teaspoon coconut oil and ¼ olive or vegetable oil in your glass jar.

5. Make sure your cutting board is completely covered by the paper towel so you don't get crayon all over the board. Carefully, slowly (so chunks don't fly everywhere) cut your crayon into small pieces with your butter knife. (The crayon needs to be in smaller pieces so it melts faster.)

6. Put the crayon pieces into your small glass jar along with the coconut oil and olive/vegetable oil.

7. Set your glass jar carefully down into the pot of boiling water.

8. Get your mold out and ready-have it nearby.

9. Use the chopstick (or whatever) to stir the crayon pieces and oils together, and watch as the crayon chunks get smaller and smaller...

10. Keep stirring until the crayon is all melted and smooth.

11. Turn off the stove. Then get an oven mitt and CAREFULLY CAREFULLY OWIE HOT BE CAREFUL pull your glass jar with the molten crayon mixture out of the pot. Grab your mold and carefully, steadily pour the molten crayon into the mold. MOLTEN LIKE HOT LAVA CAUTION CAUTION

HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT: If you have any extra molten crayon mixture-anything at all beyond what you need to fill your mold-wait till it cools then throw it straight into the garbage. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES POUR HOT CRAYON WAX DOWN YOUR KITCHEN SINK OR YOUR RESIDENT ADULT WILL HAVE MY HEAD.

If you want to make more lipstick shades (and why wouldn't you?) put the glass jar, now coated with colored wax, into the sink and let it cool before using a paper towel to wipe out the previous color from the jar. A few swipes and you should be ready for a new color.

12. Moving slowly, transfer your mold full of hot wax to the refrigerator, where it'll need 15-20 minutes to set before you can use it.

But when it does...

Awwww!!! Lookit how cute!!

Lookit how colorful!! Here's my friend Lauren modeling all the shades I made in a single afternoon:

You'll get the best results if you apply this lipstick with your finger, the heat from which which will help soften up the wax for easier application. The lipstick is matte, meaning it doesn't have any shine, but as you can see in the picture, if you swipe a gloss over the top, the shade will really pop. You can mix crayons to make your own custom colors, and I'm kicking myself that I didn't try this with metallic crayons.

Finally, while DIY crayon lipstick is non-toxic, it's probably not a good idea for everyday wear; for that, it's best to stick with lipsticks that are actually made to be worn on your lips. But crayon lipstick is fun, easy, and REALLY SERIOUSLY FUN. I mean, what if you added GLITTER to one of these???? The possibilities are really endless. ♦

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School supplies → cuteness enhancers. Lipstick is very important to me. Wearing lots of it is one of my core mission values. Whether it's a cheap Wet n Wild shade or an outrageously expensive Anna Sui lipstick ring, whether it comes from Walgreens or Sephora, I've never met a lip color I didn't love, and I will admit to a serious lipstick-buying habit.