Kelly JensenThis 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.
This is a fantastic facial hair product that is made with natural ingredients, including the scents. Add your favorite essential oils to customize it (I love cedar oil, such an amazing smell)!
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
What’s In This DIY Beeswax Beard Balm Recipe?
- Olive Oil: I like to use this olive oil which has a fantastic deep color- it’s really inexpensive online here, so I keep a few liters stocked up in my pantry. It’s great for this recipe, but also great for cooking! For the quality of oil you get, it’s an excellent value, I would highly recommend!
- Coconut Oil: I love keeping a few jars of this organic coconut oil on hand, it’s great for cooking and also a really nice skin moisturizer outside the kitchen.
- Natural Beeswax: I used beeswax from our beehives, but I’d recommend an organic cosmetic-grade beeswax like this one. Why organic and cosmetic-grade? If you have any beeswax leftover from making this beard balm, you can use it for some simple and easy hand and skin products. I have an incredible recipe for DIY Beeswax Lip Balm that gets rave reviews. If there’s a local beekeeper in your area, I’d recommended starting there for wax, but if you buy online, make sure you get the good stuff! And for a vegan plant-based alternative, you can use candelilla wax instead.
- Vitamin E Oil: this oil conditions and moisturizes your lips!
- Shea Butter: will moisturize and condition your skin… I love this shea butter I get here (and honestly, anything from Anthony’s Organics) and it’s actually cheaper than other non-organic shea butters for the same price. If you have leftovers you can add some to homemade hand salve or homemade deodorant.
- Woodsy Essential Oils: I love this set online here which has 6 different woodsy scents, which is perfect for this beard balm. Pine or cedar give this beard balm just a hint of the outdoors.
- A Double Boiler: the safest way to melt the wax is over a double boiler on the stove top. Remember: wax is flammable, so take care to not melt the wax directly in a hot pot. A double boiler is heated with hot water, and acts as a buffer between the heat and the wax. Once you melt the wax you can add the rest of the beard balm ingredients and mix in the double boiler.
- Wide Mouth Glass Jars – these wider-mouth 4 ounce jars are perfect for this job – they are wide enough to fit a beard brush in there for easy application. Other cosmetic jars usually have a smaller lid.
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.
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:
How Do I Make Homemade Beard Wax?
- 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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DIY Beard Balm Recipe
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.
Notes
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How much does this make? Is it one 4 oz jar?
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!
Sounds great David, so glad you enjoyed it!
Andy yes, I wanted the scent to be super subtle – so many beard balms out there are way-too overpowering 🙂
I’m going to try making this. How long would you say this will say good for?
Hi Michelle, this should last in a cool place for at least 2 months, and make sure to keep it in an airtight container like a mason jar 🙂
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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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Husband loves this, thank you
Thanks Melissa, that’s great to hear!
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