This is a fun lip balm that I originally made up to go with my Halloween costume (I was a honeybee!) The plan was to carry a little basket of them to hand out as “treats” at the Halloween party I was heading to. The reality is that I’m such a scatter-brain that I left them sitting on my kitchen counter! Oops!
This lip balm isn’t overtly chocolatey or honey tasting (because heavily flavored lip balms make you want to lick your lips a lot which only leads to more chapped lips), but it is super nourishing. Make sure you don’t leave out the castor oil, because that is the secret to long-lasting glossiness on your lips!
For a tutorial on how to make your own labels, check out my post How To Create Custom Lip Balm Labels Using PicMonkey.
Cocoa Honey Lip Balm
- 3 tablespoons Coconut Oil
- 2 tablespoons Cocoa Butter or Shea Butter
- 3 tablespoons Sweet Almond Oil
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Jojoba Oil
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Castor Oil
- 4 tablespoons beeswax pastilles
- 1/2 teaspoon honey
- 1/2 teaspoon cocoa powder
Mix all ingredients together in a heat proof, glass measuring cup. Set in a saucepan filled with a few inches of water, to create a makeshift double boiler. Heat over a medium-low burner until everything has melted together. Stir well and pour into lip balm tubes or tins.
For easiest cleanup, wipe the measuring cup out with old rags or paper towels while the wax is still warm then wash in warm soapy water.
Here is a picture of my hubby & I heading out to our party! (His shirt says: “I don’t do costumes.”) 
If you like this, you might be interested in the post I made on Creating Your Own Custom Lip Balms!
How very generous of you to share not only your great recipe but all of the other essentials. Thank you very much, nerds are the nicest people. LOL have a great day, Kat
Thank you for the kind words Kat!
I’m glad you found the post useful. I hope you have a great day too!
Hi Jan. I particularly enjoyed your preamble to today’s post. My wife, Carolyn, is a marketing strategist and I can hear her now, suggesting that a photo of yourself, dressed up as a bumblebee, attached to the product would guarantee record sales of your cocoa honey lip balm! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. Best regards, “Farmer Doug”.
I agree with Farmer Doug, a picture would be great and cute!
Ha, that’s funny! I ALMOST put a picture of my hubby & I heading to the party in the post! I just went in and added one.
See what I mean…now who could resist a product with such a picture on the package?! Thanks, Jan, for this welcome addition to your post.
So cute!
Thanks lol Next year, I think we’ll be comic book characters. (He’ll probably wear the same shirt.)
Love the cocoa balms, haven’t tried this one yet and Im planning also to use beet powder. One question about the picmonkey as you said you used this to edit the labels, I already asked on FB, how do you use picmonkey when it’s for photo editing? I can see the fonts and adding characters but where do you start from, do you actually download a photo of your previous label, …Ive never used it so Im perplexed. In past I just wrote the text and multiplied on word and then printed and cut. Thank you for your feedback and Happy Holidays, Simi
Oh okay, I see I misunderstood your question on Facebook. I’m writing up a tutorial, but as far as getting the canvas to work with in the first place:
go to http://www.picmonkey.com
Hit the “Create A Collage” button
It should give you a white square
Even though it shows outlines for where the pictures go, we’re going to leave it totally blank.
Hit “Save” at the top (I like to save as the biggest file size possible for now, then can adjust down later if needed)
Save it something like “Blank Label” in an easy to find place
Now, x off of the create collage (over to the right of the screen, near top), since you’re done with that and then hit the button that says “Edit a photo” and open up your Blank Label file that you just made. That gives you the blank canvas to start adding your words and overlays to.
I’ll have a better tutorial up with pictures soon, but hopefully that helps!
Thank you Jan for the picmonkey instructions, I will try to draft that this weekend as I will be making lipbalms and salves. I did 2 years ago for my friends and they all loved it, it just looks better with a label plus they can read the ingredients, love your pic w/hubby that I haven’t noticed earlier, lol.
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Hi Jan! I really love your post! This lip balm recipe is super and I love your labels! I think our readers would really enjoy reading this. I would love for you to come share it at Seasonal Celebration I really hope that you will put Seasonal Celebration on your list of carnivals to visit and link to us every Wednesday!
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Rebecca x
Hi Rebecca, Thanks for the invite. I just linked up!
I linked over from Seasonal Celebrations and I can’t wait to try your lip balm and browse around your blog a little more!
Hi Jan, thanks for the visit! I’m loving that elderberry syrup posted on your blog!
What a great recipe for your own lip balm! Sounds wonderful
I would love to have you join the blog hop I co-host, Wildcrafting Wednesdays!
http://www.theselfsufficienthomeacre.com/2012/12/wildcrafting-wednesday.html
Hi Lisa, Thanks! I’ll be right over to link up!
Hi Jan, I just wanted to thank you very much for joining us at Seasonal Celebration, as I said earlier this is a great post and a great blog and I hope very much to see you this Wednesday for our Holiday Special Seasonal Celebration Link-up! Rebecca x