Homemade Lip Gloss

The Best Recipes for Homemade Lip Gloss:The Internet is a great place to find recipes for homemade lip gloss, allowing you to customize your own flavor, texture and ingredients. Below are just a few favorites from around the Web.
Chocolate Lip Gloss:To make chocolate homemade lip gloss (and any other type for that matter) you will need a double boiler. For this one specifically, you’ll also need 3 tablespoons of cocoa butter, a few chocolate chips (no more than 5) and a vitamin E capsule.Simply melt all of these ingredients together in your double boiler, and then stir them together with a spoon until the final product is smooth and creamy. Pour it into an empty lip gloss pot or other small container, and refrigerate it until it is solidified into standard lip gloss form. Sound easy? It really is that simple to make your own lip gloss.
Vanilla Lip Gloss:This one is a bit trickier, just because of the ingredients you have to hunt down. Take 1 tablespoon of grated beeswax, 1 /8 teaspoon of Vitamin E oil, and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil, and place in a small metal container that can withstand the heat of an oven. Place this into the oven on low until it is all melted. Remove from the oven and stir in the vanilla extract. Pour it all into your final container and cool it on the kitchen counter or in the fridge.You can take the simple base recipe of Vitamin E or petroleum jelly and add whatever ingredients you wish to create different flavors and textures. Some use fruits that are easily preservable, such as cranberries, and others choose to delve into the wide array of imitation food flavoring available at the local supermarket. From orange to root beer, you can make a flavor you will love.

Homemade Lip Gloss for Kids:If you have a young daughter who has a birthday or other special event coming up, making lip gloss can be an easy crafts project for a gaggle of young girls. For the world’s easiest lip gloss creation, purchase a can of Crisco and a several packets of powdered Kool-Aid that already has the sugar added in. Purchase small lip gloss pots at a supply store such as Specialty Bottle, and give one to each child.Scoop 2 tablespoons of the shortening into each pot, and add 1 tablespoon of the selected Kool-Aid flavor. Stir together, stick in the fridge until the end of the party, and each child can go home with her own homemade lip gloss favor. You can even take standard computer address labels and print out a special message to stick onto the jars to make it a personalized souvenir. Making lip gloss from scratch is easy and entertaining, so keep it in mind when you’re looking for activity ideas for that next party, ladies get together, or rainy day.