Homemade Lip Gloss Recipes

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Money can be saved on lip stain and gloss by mixing your own. This page contains homemade lip gloss recipes.

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Mix Leftover Lipstick With Vaseline

This is a make up tip. You can purchase a little plastic container in the sample/travel section of your favorite grocery or drug store (cost about 99 cents) and then put the last bit of your lipstick in it with some Vaseline. Scoop out the last bit of lipstick from the tube and mix it with the Vaseline in the plastic container and boom! You have lip gloss in a favorite shade.

By Wolfen8586 from Scottsdale, AZ

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Refill Child's Cute Lip Gloss Case with Homemade Gloss

My daughter is 5 years old and loves all of the sparkly and colorful lip glosses that come in cute cases with her favorite characters on them. The problem is that these glosses are terrible for her lips! They are very low quality and drying to her lips.

So I cleaned them out of the case, and took a little aquaphor gel and mixed it with just a bit of my own lipstick (took a small scrape off the bottom with a q tip). I just mixed them together and they were colorful and moisturizing to her lips. We put them back in the cases and they work great! I even use them for my dry lips.

By Sally R. from Edwardsville, IL

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Homemade Flavored Lip Gloss

To make chocolate gloss, use equal parts of shortening and Vaseline. Melt in your microwave using only short increments of time as not to overheat. Heat only until melted. You can also do this in a double boiler. Then stir in cocoa powder to taste. Put in clean used lip gloss containers. You can also make berry gloss. Use the same recipe, omit the cocoa powder and add strawberry, raspberry, or blueberry drink crystals instead!

By coville123

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Tinted Lip Gloss

If you melt a chunk of lipstick (or two) and petrolewm jelly you can make a really nice lip gloss that moisturizes your lips.

Mallory Davis

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How do you make lip gloss out of Koolaid?

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By robynfederspiel01/11/2013

Crisco shortening and honey mixed together. Crisco is better than vaseline, and it is good for skin too!

Blessings, Robyn

Make Your Own Lip Gloss

I am making my own lip gloss. Some of the recipes on this site include honey as an ingredient. I'm allergic to honey so is there a substitute I can use? Or do I need it at all? Thanks.

By Brittany H from Pittsburgh, PA

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By twihead12311/22/2010

Thanks! I will try some soon and see if they will work for my science fair project!

Homemade Lip Stain

Does anyone have a recipe for a lip STAIN? Thank you!

Smoochie

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By Happy Owl (Guest Post)11/13/2008

Whatever you do, DO NOT use any "colored" henna on your lips. These aren't really henna they're just hair dye chemicals which are labeled as henna or contain some henna extract. Lynda meant henna as in natural henna, which you can buy off the internet in powder form. Just make sure that it is 100% henna and generally the fresher the powder the nicer the color.

Making Lip Stain

How do you make semi permanent lip stain?

By Chris from Cumming, GA

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By dorinmoz11/17/2010

Koolaid powder mixed in Vaseline or just wet it down and rub it on, it can be bold so watch out! Or take a minute to enjoy a red popsicle. It will give a nice flush to your lips. Just think about when you were a kid and would have stained lips from one!

Adding Color to Lip gloss

Is food coloring a good thing to use when trying to color lip gloss or should I use Kool-aid packets?

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Mix Leftover Lipstick With Vaseline

When your lipstick is running low, transfer it to a small container and add vaseline to it. You then have instant lipgloss which also acts as a lubricant for lips. In winter, my lips are never dry or chapped due in part to this lipgloss recipe.

By Carolyn from E Northport NY

RE: Mix Leftover Lipstick With Vaseline

If you melt the vaseline and lipstick in a heatproof bowl over a bowl of boiling water, they will mix better. Also, you could add some honey, vanilla essence or essential oils to make it smell or taste yummy! (02/15/2007)

By Beth

Make Your Own Lip Gloss

You can make your own lip gloss for a fraction of what you would normally spend on make up.

Take some Vaseline and mix in the right amount of food coloring.

For reddish tints mix lots of reds. For a purplish, maroonish color mix in red with a hint of blue. Mix in yellow food coloring with a lot of red for a light peachy orange color. Get creative!

Keep this mixture in the fridge for 2-3 minutes to make the colors set.

Buy some small round containers with lids from the dollar store for your creations.

Another way to store the lipgloss is to clean out an old water color paint set. Keep each color in the water color paint container and use a brush to apply to your face.

Voila! Now you have some stylish lipgloss.

By Neha from Dayton OH

RE: Make Your Own Lip Gloss

You could also use Kool-aid and the bonus is that its flavored. Or try beet juice for red and coffee for brown, the possibilities are amazing. (08/22/2006)

By melody_yesterday

RE: Make Your Own Lip Gloss

Another additive for lip gloss is cinnamon oil, it plumps up the lips. Use only a very small drop per container of gloss. Too much can cause a stingy sensation. (08/23/2006)

By Angie

RE: Make Your Own Lip Gloss

Vaseline or any petroleum product will actually dry your lips and you will have to keep putting more and more on to get it to work. Of course the big companies don't want you to know that. If I were you I'd try something with natural ingredients in, like hemp oil. You may have to shop to get hold of it, but believe me, your lips will thank you for it!

I can recommend yaoh.co.uk. Their balms are incredible, totally natural and you will find you need to use it a lot less than anything made with Vaseline or equivalent. They smell divine too! No, I'm not vegan, and I don't work for them, I just know a wonderful product when I use it. (02/28/2007)

By chickybiker