Colored Lip Gloss Recipes

Lip Gloss with a Hint of Color

Colored Lip Gloss Recipes

This group of recipes will give you lip gloss that adds color to your lips. You can go with the usual red, pink, coral, brown, or berry colors or you can be adventurous! Actually, you can add a bit of coloredlipstick or soft drink mix to any recipe on this page to create colored gloss.

Lipgloss from Your Favorite LipstickIf you have a lipstick you love, you can make lipgloss from it.

Ingredients
1/2 teaspoon lipstick
1 teaspoon grated beeswax
1/2 teaspoon petroleum jelly
4-6 drops peppermint essential oil (optional)
2 drops vitamin E from a vitamin E capsule (optional)

Recipe
Mix the lipstick, beeswax, and petroleum jelly in a small bowl. Melt the ingredients together either by setting this bowl in a larger bowl of very hot water or by microwaving it for a few seconds. Stir in the peppermint oil and vitamin E. Pour the mixture into alip gloss pot and allow it to cool.

Kool-Aid Lip Gloss
Have you ever colored your lips and tongue blue drinking blue Kool-Aid? This lip gloss works on the same principle, except you may prefer a flavor like strawberry, cherry, or black cherry over the blue color... or not. Have fun! This particular lipgloss is easy and safe enough to let young kids make.

Ingredients
1 tablespoon Kool-Aid or other sweetened instant flavored drink mix (if you use the unsweetened type, then use a lot less and maybe add a bit of honey as a sweetener)
2 tablespoons solid vegetable shortening

Mix the ingredients together and spoon the mixture into a lip gloss pot.

Lip Gloss Made from Roses
What a wonderful way to keep and use roses from a special event! This gloss will bear the color of the dried petals and the scent of roses.

Ingredients
2 tablespoons grated beeswax
1 tablespoon coconut oil
dried rose petals, crushed and ground into a powder
5 drops rose essential oil

You can powder dried rose petals by grinding them with a mortar and pestle or by processing them in a spice mill or coffee grinder. Melt the beeswax and coconut oil together, either in a microwave or over a double boiler. Mix in the rose petals and rose oil. You could add a drop of vitamin E if you like. Pour the mixture into alip gloss pot and allow it to cool.