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Home made wedding favour lip balm

166 replies

Beepbopadee · 01/10/2019 13:59

So for the ladies wedding favours I want to make a homemade lip balm. I'm thinking of trying to make a gin flavour one. Has anyone had any experience making their own lip balm & can offer advice on ingredients. There are so many different recipes online with varying ingredients, just wondered if anyone could offer any tips. I can't seem to find many gin flavoured ones. Do I use real gin or gin flavour? Confused Also how do I make the lip balm a nice colour?

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AliceLittle · 01/10/2019 19:57

1pt Coconut oil, 1pt shea butter and 1pt beeswax. Heat in a double boiler till melted. No idea how you get a gin flavour lime essential oil maybe?

You're welcome

Oh, and give them gin not lipbalm.

GlendaSugarbeanIsJudgingYou · 01/10/2019 19:58

Here.

SewMuchForThat · 01/10/2019 19:59

Why would you give them men a nice mini gin and the women a shitty lip balm Confused

PurpleDaisies · 01/10/2019 19:59

The trouble is alice, that isn’t suitable for vegans.

Here is mine...

Ingredients:
1 miniature glass bottle
Gin

Method:
Put the gin into the miniature bottle.

fabbydabbydick · 01/10/2019 19:59

Homemade lip balm just sounds... Rank. Even before you make it gin-flavoured. OP can indeed give her guests anything she likes, but before she wastes her time and money on something that makes people go "...okaaaaaay" before they chuck it and then get annoyed about the stereotyping, she could just... Give everyone gin? (I hate gin, but it wouldn't annoy me to receive and someone else would take it.)

Wow op, Aibu is viscous tonight.

Grin I much enjoy the mental image of AIBU slopping gently and wobblily back and forth, as well as the implication that on other nights it's more liquid.

pumkinspicetime · 01/10/2019 19:59

If I was as this wedding I'd probably nick a bloke's gin while he was in the loo or some such.
Honestly OP that really is a bad idea.

SoupDragon · 01/10/2019 19:59

How about a lemon lip balm duck taped to a bottle of gin?

palahvah · 01/10/2019 20:02

Why not give them men a gin miniature and the women a gin miniature and a mini tin of vaseline. Make your own gin lip balm kit!

Wizzbangpop · 01/10/2019 20:02

Another one to say I would be pretty annoyed if I got a lip balm instead of a gin - and I’m single can’t even pinch my dps.

Also lip balm is a waste because has anyone ever in he history of the world finished an entire stock/ small pot. Gin on the other hand

Pinkyyy · 01/10/2019 20:03

I am absolutely baffled by 'I'd be pissed off to receive ....' 'I'd prefer to receive...' comments.

But that's not what people are saying. They're saying they wouldn't want to receive one thing knowing that men were getting something different and (in)arguably better.

MrMeSeeks · 01/10/2019 20:08

I love lipbalm but even i wouldn’t want this, sorry.
I like homemade things, but not this! I also wouldn’t be impressed by my dp having something diff ( though if that’s homemade then maybe i wouldn’t care).
I’d smile politely but then dump it.

jelly79 · 01/10/2019 20:10

@Pinkyyy there are plenty of 'I'd be pissed off to receive lip balm, or I'd prefer the gin replies. Yes also a lot not wanting to receive something different to the men too.

All really petty and moany. Just a wedding favour that's a nice little gesture

SewMuchForThat · 01/10/2019 20:12

If the men were getting matches or something as naff as lip alm then fair enough.

It's the inequality.

ChicCroissant · 01/10/2019 20:13

I had some gin-flavoured cake recently and it wasn't nice, so I do think it is hard to get right (gin flavouring).

PurpleDaisies · 01/10/2019 20:13

It’s petty and moany not to want to be assigned a beauty product just because you’re a woman?

There’s no reason to treat the men and women differently. That’s what posters are objecting to. Nobody would ever give men lip balm and women alcohol miniatures.

FiveGoMadInDorset · 01/10/2019 20:15

If you want to do it go to thesoapkitchen.com they gave a gin flavour for lip balms, a recipe and all the ingredients you will need. I don’t work for them. You won’t need a hygiene certificate and as you aren’t selling them you won’t need to get a cosmetic testing certificate for them

jelly79 · 01/10/2019 20:17

@PurpleDaisies that's not what all posters are moaning about.

GlendaSugarbeanIsJudgingYou · 01/10/2019 20:19

If OP were hosting some corporate event and decided to give the men miniatures and the women lip balm, then yes, I would be agreeing with the objections on this thread.

However, as these are her friends and family I think she can be trusted to know which they would prefer. I honestly can't get worked up about it.

PillarOfSalt · 01/10/2019 20:19

I got a gin flavour lip balm in a cracker last year. It tasted of absolutely nothing. Lip balm is an old thing to want to give as a wedding flavour unless it’s some kind of in joke. I can understand candles, chocolate, little puzzles etc which can be lovely little homemade gifts. But home made lip balm just sounds rank. I’m not squeamish at all really but if I opened a pretty little tin at a wedding and it was full of some kind of home made lubricant I’d immediately shut it and never look at it again.

There’s loads of lip balm recipes on the internet. The few I looked at look thoroughly grim though.

PillarOfSalt · 01/10/2019 20:20

*odd thing, not old thing

pumkinspicetime · 01/10/2019 20:24

However, as these are her friends and family I think she can be trusted to know which they would prefer. I honestly can't get worked up about it.

This is good advice, have you actually asked a reasonable sample of your friends which they would prefer? The other option is just to group favors on the table and let people self select which they would prefer.

LittleLongDog · 01/10/2019 20:33

If I was your friend I would tell you it was a great idea while secretly a) be judging you for gendered gifts b) be sad I didn’t get a miniature.

Janaih · 01/10/2019 20:51

@08MrMeSeeks I misread that as you'd dump your dp 😁

AloneLonelyLoner · 01/10/2019 20:59

Sorry PPs are right.

Gendered gifts are awful, even if you think you know the women.

Most women wouldn't use a home made lip balm. I wouldn't trust it near my lips. That could just be my weirdness talking though.

user1474894224 · 01/10/2019 21:09

The problem is there is football on tonight....all the women (as women don't ever watch male sports) are on the gin and replying to MN. We want the gin!!! Sorry what was the question?