Is cocoa butter good for your lips? If you’re experiencing dry, chapped lips, you need some nourishing ingredients to moisturize and help them heal. Luckily, cocoa butter is the perfect remedy for hydrating dry lips and keeping them protected from further damage. In this blog, we’ll discuss the benefits of cocoa butter and how you can use this miracle ingredient on your lips.

What is Cocoa Butter?

Cocoa butter is derived from cocoa beans. To make it, the beans are taken from the cacao plant and roasted, stripped, and pressed to separate the fat, which is the cocoa butter. The leftovers from this are processed into cocoa powder.

Cocoa has been used in medicine for thousands of years; recently, researchers have found that cocoa contains compounds called phytochemicals that help keep your skin healthy. Read on to learn more about the benefits of using cocoa butter in skincare.

Is Cocoa Butter Good for Your Lips?

Since cocoa butter is high in fatty acids, it helps nourish the sensitive skin of your lips and improve elasticity. This fat can also provide a protective barrier for your lips – which lack their own protective outer layer – to hold in more of that much-needed moisture.

The phytochemicals in cocoa butter can improve blood flow to the skin and lips, as well as protect against damage from UV rays. It’s also full of antioxidants like vitamins A, C, and E, which can help slow the signs of aging. Thanks to these properties, cocoa butter is often used to smooth out scars, wrinkles, and other blemishes on the skin as well as heal rashes from skin conditions like eczema.

How do you use cocoa butter for your lips?

Cocoa butter makes the perfect ingredient for DIY lip balms. Those fatty acids, phytochemicals, and vitamins all work together to keep your lips nourished and protected from the elements, so using cocoa butter in your next homemade lip balm is a no-brainer.

Do you need some inspiration? Here are a couple of our favorite DIY lip balm recipes featuring cocoa butter:

DIY Mint Cocoa Lip Balm

This lip balm uses beeswax, cocoa butter, olive oil, and castor oil to keep your lips hydrated, and – bonus – it smells like chocolate! We’ve also added spearmint essential oil for an extra boost of fragrance and healing.

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp cocoa butter
• 1 tbsp beeswax
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp castor oil
• 15 drops of spearmint essential oil

Tutorial Steps:

1. Add the cocoa butter and beeswax to a double boiler over low heat and melt until combined
2. Add the olive oil and castor oil and stir, making sure not to overheat
3. Remove from heat and add the spearmint essential oil
4. Pour into lip balm tubes or any other type of container you’d like to use
5. Allow to cool and solidify for around 30 minutes

Make sure the mixture has fully cooled inside of the containers before attempting to use it since using it while it’s still too hot can burn your lips and spill since the mixture won’t be fully solidified yet.

DIY Chocolate Lip Balm

This recipe feels and smells super decadent, so it’s perfect for treating yourself or even gifting to a friend or loved one. Cocoa powder is an easy, quick way to add some chocolate flavor and fragrance to your DIY lip balm, so it’s great to keep on hand whenever you want an extra rich, nourishing lip balm.

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp cocoa butter
• 2 tbsp olive-based wax
• ½ tbsp jojoba oil
• 3 drops of tea tree essential oil
• 1 tsp of cocoa powder

Tutorial Steps:

1. Melt the cocoa butter and olive-based wax in a double boiler over low heat until combined
2. Add the jojoba oil and cocoa powder and stir
3. Remove from heat and add the tea tree essential oil
4. Carefully pour into lip balm tubes or any other type of container you want to use
5. Allow the mixture to cool and solidify for about 30 minutes

Make sure the mixture has fully cooled inside of the containers before attempting to use it since using it while it’s still too hot can burn your lips and spill since the mixture won’t be fully solidified yet.

How long does cocoa butter lip balms last?

Homemade lip balms should be used within three months. If you’re unsure how long you’ve had the lip balm, or it starts smelling strange, you should toss it out to avoid accidentally ingesting expired ingredients.

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About the Author: Jenni Mac

Hi, I’m Jenni! I am a health and beauty blogger that loves making homemade beauty products. I have been blogging for over three years now, my first blog is RawBeautyBlog.com - it is all about natural products, DIY skin care, inner beauty, and anything else to do with natural living.

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