Dandelions are versatile medicinal plants packed with vitamins and nourishment. This DIY dandelion lip balm is no exception; it's healing, nourishing and easy to make!

DIY Dandelion Lip Balm

Dandelions are versatile medicinal plants packed with vitamins and nourishment. This DIY dandelion lip balm is no exception; it's healing, nourishing and easy to make!
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While some people pull them out, douse them in pesticides, or mow them over, I collect dandelions as soon as they start appearing in the early spring. I’ve even gone so far as to gather them from nieghbor’s lawns (after I’ve made sure they don’t use chemical pesticides, of course), and I hope after you’ve read this, you’ll treat them with the same respect.

No, I don’t view these radiant yellow flowers as weeds, but rather a versatile medicinal plant packed with vitamins and nourishment.

The fresh dandelion greens, flower tops, and roots contain valuable constituents that are known to have anti-oxidant, disease preventing, and health promoting properties, so why waste them?

Dandelions are also very versatile. I’ve made dandelion “coffee” and tea with the dried root, added the young leaves to salads and stir-frys, made dandelion tinctures (which make an awesome blood and liver tonic), and used the flowers to infuse oils with, which I use for lip balms and gardening salves.

Today, I want to share with you just one of the many ways that you can put this plant to use in a recipe: dandelion lip balm. And if you’re looking for a nourishing and healing lip balm that’s packed with vitamins and nutrients, then you’ve definitely found your match.

Dandelions are versatile medicinal plants packed with vitamins and nourishment. This DIY dandelion lip balm is no exception; it's healing, nourishing and easy to make!
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Some Fun Facts About Dandelions

  • Dandelions are in the same family as sunflowers.
  • Up until the 1800s, people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “weeds” like chickweed, malva, and chamomile.
  • Dandelions can be used to make wine (I’ve made it!).
  • The dandelion seed can travel up to 5 miles (8km) before it plants itself.
  • Dandelions are dynamic accumulators – that means they can draw nutrients such as nitrogen from the soil and concentrate them in their leaves and roots.
  • The dandelion is a popular diuretic (increases urine output).
  • 1 cup of dandelion greens provides 535%  of your daily recommended vitamin K intake and 112% of vitamin A. (source)

Making Dandelion Lip Balm: A Two Step Process

The first step to making this dandelion lip balm is to make the dandelion-infused oil. (Learn how to infuse flowers and herb in oil HERE).

Specifically for this infusion, I just use the dandelion flower (because they give the lip balm a happy, bright yellow color) and equal parts castor oil (which gives the balm a glossy shin and is a great moisturizer) and sweet almond oil. 

Dandelions are versatile medicinal plants packed with vitamins and nourishment. This DIY dandelion lip balm is no exception; it's healing, nourishing and easy to make!
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Now that you have beautiful, golden, dandelion oil, you can start to make your lip balm.

You’ll need:

I highly recommend investing in a kitchen scale if you don’t already have one. They make life so much easier when making homemade lip balm, salvesbody butter, and lotion, and give the most consistent and accurate results.


Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Infuse dandelion flowers with castor oil and sweet almond oil as mentioned in the section “Making Dandelion Oil: A Two Step Process.”
  2. Once your infusion is complete, measure out all of the ingredients, except the essential oils and vitamin E oil, into a glass jar.
  3. Create a double-boiler using a glass bowl sitting atop a pot of lightly simmering water.
  4. Add oil, butter, and wax.
  5. Once the oil, butter, and wax have melted, remove from heat and add the essential oils and vitamin E.
  6. Pour into containers and leave to sit at room temperature until the oils have solidified. Yay! You’ve created your own healthy dandelion lip balm!

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  1. Can’t wait to try this! I always look forward to the spring when most of our front yard is in bloom with them, just more reasons to love this happy little flower!

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