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Beard Balm Recipe – DIY Homemade Beard Wax

This homemade DIY beard balm recipe is a hydrating and moisturizing balm for any facial hair which conditions for an all-natural shine.  Made with beeswax, oils, and shea butter, this is one balm that you can use day after day.

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Whether you’re making this for yourself or that special man in your life, this easy DIY beeswax beard balm is a fantastic product that men will love. My hubby (and his lumberjack beard!) was definitely the inspiration for this recipe. Brett was using an fancy expensive beard balm that he bought online… but he hated the smell. I decided to make him one that had a very subtle scent and made with all natural ingredients.  And he loved it, this beard wax recipes gets the beekeeper’s husband seal of approval.
 
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This Homemade Beard Wax Recipe Is:

  • Woodsy
  • Slightly Fragrant
  • Moisturizing
  • Not greasy
  • Simple to Make
  • Has all natural oils and ingredients
  • Is a great daily beard conditioner

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What’s In This DIY Beeswax Beard Balm Recipe?

What’s A Vegan Alternative to Beeswax?

If you don’t want to use beeswax, you can use candelilla wax which is a vegetable-based wax instead made from the candelilla shrub. This is a plant-based wax for those who choose not to use animal products. You can use it as an alternative to beeswax in this recipe, although I will admit I haven’t tested it yet. You can read about the uses and benefits of candelilla wax here, too.

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Where Does Beeswax Come From Anyway?

As a beekeeper, we have a lot of wax left over from when we harvest honey from the hives. Bees make the wax to create “cells”, which form that hexagonal honeycomb pattern. The cells can be used to lay eggs, raise brood, and keep honey that the bees store for the winter. The honey is stored in these hexagonal cells, and when the moisture has been cured out from the honey, the bees will cover the cells with a wax seal.  This is called capping. It preserves the honey for the winter, and keeps the moisture from ruining their honey stores.

When we harvest honey, we scrape the honey and wax from the frames.  Once the honey gets filtered into a separate bucket (which we then jar up and use to make amazing honey recipes!) we are left with the wax.  We melt the wax to remove any impurities, and then keep it to make great products like this!

Here is a frame full of honey, perfectly capped in beeswax:

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How Do I Make Homemade Beard Wax?

  1. Add 3 cups of water to a small pot on the stove top, and bring to a boil.
  2. Please the double boiler on top of the pot, and add all ingredients except the essential oils.  Allow the boiler to heat the ingredients they are melted, and stir with a metal whisk to combine.
  3. Once ingredients have been stirred and have liquified, remove the double boiler from the heat, and stir in the essential oils.
  4. Carefully pour the balm into jars (I used these wide mouth 4 ounce jars) and allow balm to cool at room temperature.

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Other DIY Beeswax Recipes You’ll Love!

DIY Leather Conditioner with Beeswax

Beeswax Lip Balm Recipe

DIY Beeswax Furniture Polish Recipe (2 Ingredients!)

Headache Balm with Mint and Pine

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DIY Beard Balm Recipe

The Herbeevore
This homemade DIY beard balm recipe is a hydrating and moisturizing balm for your beard which conditions for an all-natural shine.  Made with beeswax, oils, and shea butter, this is one balm that you can use day after day.
5 from 12 votes
Prep Time 2 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Course DIY, Home & Beauty
Cuisine American
Servings 1 jar

Equipment

  • double boiler
  • mason jars

Ingredients
  

  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil
  • 2 tablespoons beeswax
  • 2 tablespoons shea butter
  • 10 drops Vitamin E oil
  • 10 drops essential oils

Instructions
 

  • Add 3 cups of water to a small pot on the stove top, and bring to a boil.
  • Please the double boiler on top of the pot, and add all ingredients except the essential oils.  Allow the boiler to heat the ingredients they are melted, and stir with a metal whisk to combine.
  • Once ingredients have been stirred and have liquified, remove the double boiler from the heat, and stir in the essential oils.
  • Carefully pour the balm into jars (I used these wide mouth 4 ounce jars) and allow balm to cool at room temperature.

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10 Comments

  1. David

    5 stars
    I made this for myself today and I love it!
    I substituted argan and jojoba for part of the olive oil and used thieves oil type blend of essential oils.
    It’s so smooth and silky and the scent is very mild which I like a lot!

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  3. Mary

    Great article!

    Thanks for sharing this recipe and for the tips! I will surely try them out and give it as a gift to my husband and father.

    Stay safe and healthy!

    Cheers!

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