Gift-Worthy: Lemon Skin Balm
This nourishing lemon skin balm smells like a lemon cookie and makes your skin buttery soft. Use it on chapped skin, cuticles or even on your lips for great moisture.
Homemade gifts are generally inexpensive and always thoughtful.
And homemade gifts do not have to be hard to make or cost a lot. Case in point, this skin balm that smells AMAZING. Like a lemon cookie, but without the sugar.
About The Ingredients
- Coconut oil – Available at any grocery store (I buy mine at Trader Joe’s)
- Beeswax – A package of beeswax generally costs around $10. You can purchase at Whole Foods, natural food co-ops, craft stores, and online. The benefit of buying it at the food co-op in the bulk section is that you can buy just the amount you need.
- Lemon essential oil – Available at Whole Foods, natural food co-ops or online.
The good news is that once you buy the beeswax and lemon oil, you can use these items to make other homemade skin and household products. All in all, a small container of lemon skin balm costs right around 25 cents to make. 
Lemon Skin Balm Uses
- To sooth dry skin on the hands, elbows or heels
- As a cuticle butter (to moisturize and soften cuticles)
- As a lip balm (just reduce the lemon essential oil down to 10 drops)
- After exfoliating with this gingerbread sugar scrub or lemon sugar scrub
More Homemade Beauty & Home Products You Can Make In Your Kitchen
DIY Lemon Skin Balm
Looking for a container to use? I always save free sample containers that I get at LUSH, Sephora, and similar stores. After I'm done with the sample, I clean them out and use them to house my favorite DIY beauty products and small amounts of body products to use on vacation.
Ingredients
- 1/8 cup beeswax pellets
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 20 drops lemon essential oil
Instructions
- Place beeswax and coconut oil in a small saucepan over very low heat. Stir until the beeswax is melted, which will take just a minute or so.
- Once beeswax is melted, remove from heat and add lemon essential oil. Stir until combined.
- Pour mixture into containers. Allow to cool to harden.
You have to love such a deliciously scented homemade gift! LEMON. yes.
Exactly! The lemon + coconut oil smells like vacation. Or dessert.
Do I have to use lemon oil? I have peppermint and lavender already. Just want to know if i can use what i have.
I used lemon essential oil and squeezed the juice from 2 whole lemons, and it was m u c h more ‘lemon effective ‘.
I have rosemary too
You can definitely use another essential oil – any of those you mentioned would work. Just experiment to find out which one smells the best.
I am a product educator for Aura Cacia and a note for those of fair skin: Lemon can be very photo-sensitizing (increase the skins sensitivity to the suns rays), I substituted Lemon Balm (Melissa) which smells of lemon and also very floral, the downside is it tends to be more pricey but only 4 drops would be needed, or for a more budget friendly citrus that is not as photo-sensitizing Sweet Orange is a good bet. Both will give the cheery mood that lemon has. Thank you for the recipe! I love the consistency, I will be making some for gifts this holiday!
This is great to know, Melissa! I like both the lemon balm and sweet orange ideas.