If you like chocolate-covered strawberries, then you’ll love this moisturizing homemade lip balm made with dark cocoa butter and strawberry flavor oil.
Chocolate-covered strawberries are a favorite indulgences, especially for Valentine’s Day. (And especially served with champagne!) This homemade lip balm captures the smell and flavor of chocolate-covered strawberries — without the calories!
This is a great gift for your sweetie or for your gal pals. It even makes a great classroom Valentine’s Day gift when you don’t want to send candy.
To give this homemade lip balm its chocolatey flavor, smell and color, I used dark cocoa butter wafers, the same base ingredient for my caramel mocha lip balm.
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Sweet almond oil and coconut oil help protect, nourish, moisturize and heal chapped lips. And strawberry flavor oil gives it a heady, fruity flavor.
When making flavored homemade lip balm, always be sure to use lip-safe FLAVOR oil — NOT fragrance oil. I bought the strawberry flavor oil for this recipe from Bramble Berry.
Read on for the easy recipe for Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Homemade Lip Balm.
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Chocolate Strawberry Homemade Lip Balm
- .5 ounces dark cocoa butter
- .75 ounces beeswax pastilles
- 1.5 ounces sweet almond oil
- 1 ounce coconut oil
- 5 ML strawberry flavor oil
- 20 lip balm tubes or lip balm pots
- lip balm tray
- washi tape
Set up the lip balm tray with empty tubes and put on a flat surface. I usually place mine on a baking pan lined with parchment paper for easy cleanup.
Measure out all your ingredients. I recommend using a digital scale for accuracy.
In a small glass measuring cup, combine cocoa butter, beeswax pellets and sweet almond oil.
Heat in the microwave in 30 second bursts, until the cocoa butter and beeswax are completely melted. Be sure to stir after each turn in the microwave.
Stir in the coconut oil until completely melted.
Add strawberry flavor oil. Stir to combine.
Working quickly, pour melted ingredients into lip balm tubes. Allow to cool and harden before removing the lip balm tubes from the tray.
Cap lip balm tubes and decorate the tubes with red and pink washi tape.
If you prefer, you can use lip balm pots instead of tubes for this recipe.
Because this recipe uses dark cocoa butter, this lip balm will darken your lips slightly. If you prefer a clear homemade lip balm, you can substitute regular cocoa butter for the dark chocolate wafers.
You can also use different carrier oils in place of the coconut oil and sweet almond oil. (Be mindful of nut allergies when using sweet almond oil.)
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Laurel
Hi Amy,
I made your Citrus Mint hand salve last Christmas with great success! Everyone loved the scent! I thought I would try lip balm this year. I looked at many recipes and tried two small experimental batches. All of these recipes called for essential oils which I get through Plant Therapy. I am disappointed at the lack of fragrance and taste. There is a light peppermint feeling in those using peppermint oil. I received your email yesterday with the chocolate strawberry balm. Flavor oils are completely new to me! Will these give me the product I am looking for? Do they blend well? Why haven’t I seen more lip balm recipes with these? I trust your recipes because I had such great success last year!
Atta Girl Amy
Hi Laurel. I’m so glad to hear that the hand salve was a hit! It’s still one of my favorites, and it’s definitely the season for it. I’m glad you’re thinking of trying another of my recipes.
I’m hoping I can answer your questions about the lip balms. The flavor oils alone won’t give you the taste. It’s the combination with a sweetener that gives them a taste. (Or so I’ve learned from one of my favorite resources for DIY beauty products – Soap Queen & Brambleberry.) I think the scent of the flavor oils, combined with the sweetener tricks your brain into thinking it has a flavor.) To amp up the “taste” of the chocolate strawberry lip balm, I’d probably add a little more sweetener than I indicate in the recipe. The ratio that Brambleberry reocmmends is 1-3 percent of flavor/sweetener per batch. I have also found that the pre-sweetened flavor oils tend to have a stronger taste.
I found these two articles helpful while cooking up my own recipes for lip balm: https://www.soapqueen.com/bramble-berry-news/sunday-night-spotlight-flavoring-oils/ and https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/lip-products/talk-it-out-tuesday-lip-balm/
I hope they’ll be useful to you, too. Also, there are a lot of really great recipes on the Soap Queen site. I’ve made this mint julep lip balm, and it has a nice flavor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8LdS6CZIIc
Let me know how things turn out for you.
Amy