How to Make Your Own Lip Oil

You bought a new lip oil and it finally arrived at your house, excitingly you open it, while holding the lip oil in your hand you stare at it and admire all of its beauty, then you wonder how you could make a lip oil for yourself. Maybe you would like to know how to make your own lip oil to save a few extra bucks, or maybe you want to learn for business purposes, whatever the case may be, below are a few tips on how to make one of your own.
With all their majesty, lip oils are a must-have cosmetic product because of their great benefits to your skin. Lip oils help prevent and cure dry, cracked, and chapped lips. Because of this, it’s important for your homemade lip oil to contain vitamins, antioxidants, and fatty acids to help hydrate and nourish the lips.
Another thing to consider when making your own lip oil is the colorant, and whether or not you want it to include sparkles. You can also consider mixing colors together to make something truly unique. Lip oils come in a variety of colors like red, green, or even orange. Some even have sparkles, giving your lips a glossy finish without the stickiness of lip glosses.
Other ingredients to think about when creating your own lip oil formula are vitamin E, vegetable glycerin, flavoring oils, carrier and essential oils such as, almond oil, coconut oil, almond oil or avocado extract. Lip oils should contain more than one essential oil, the combination of these oils will depend on your liking. All of the oils mentioned above are a great choice for any lip oil. The glycerin, vitamin E, flavoring oil and essential oils should be mixed and whipped together before adding the colorant. Once you finally add the colorants to the bowl of ingredients, you should mix and whip all the ingredients along with the colorant a second time. The mixing should continue until the ingredients are turned into liquid, and not a jelly-like consistency.

Math is everything when making your own lip oil formula. The formulas vary depending on the person, and the quality and quantity of every ingredient that is used. Creating lip oils is an art, since it also consists of the knowledge of mixing colors to create a nice beautiful finish color. There will be mistakes at first when trying to come up with your formula and mixing colors, but this art is something that anyone can do if they put their mind to it. 

Author: Luis Guillen

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