Homemade Lipgloss

   I love lip gloss! I looked several places online to find a fun and more importantly easy way to make my own.  So after multiple searches and some liquidy failures, I find this recipe works well for me.

Supplies:

• Lip gloss containers - I use bead storage containers (You can get them in packs of 25 for $9.99 or $7.99 when they are on sale at Joann's)
• 1/3 cup of Petroleum Jelly
• Toothpicks
• Bowl - I recommend a disposable bowl because it is hard to clean a regular bowl full of petroleum jelly - learn from my mistake!
• Flavoring - I use vanilla and jello
• Food coloring - the jello can also provide color
• plastic baggie
• Scissors
• cup (optional)
• Vitamin E oil (optional)

This recipe makes about five or six small bead jars.

Step 1: Put 1/3 cup on Petroleum Jelly in microwave for about 50 seconds.  Warm jelly is easier to work with.

Step 2: Add one drop of Vitamin E oil into the petroleum jelly and stir.  This will help those cracked lips and one small jar of Vitamin E oil lasts forever.  I still have my first one.

Step 3: Add in flavoring.  If you are using jello I recommend about 1 teaspoon of jello powder.  Put it on a paper plate add just a little bit of water and stir with the toothpick so the jello is a paste.  This will stop your lip gloss from having jello crusties.  Then add the paste to the jelly and stir.

Step 4: If you want more coloring add a drop or two of food coloring to the jelly and stir.  Not to much - you don't want to permanently stain your lips.

Step 5: Put the jelly in a plastic bag.  The easiest way I have found is to put a plastic bag around a cup and then spoon the jelly into cup.  The cup will look like this:

Step 6: Cut the tip off the end of the bag with scissors.

Step 7: Pipe the lip gloss into storage container.

These are my vanilla lip glosses.

It took me just under an hour to do all 25.  The blue are vanilla, pink are peach, yellow is lemon, orange is peach lemon and green is cake.

Enjoy!