Home made wedding favour lip balm

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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? Also how do I make the lip balm a nice colour?

Men are having mini bottles of gin (hopefully homemade too) I've decided to do different for men & women & thought gin flavour lip balm would be a nice touch.

I’d be fucking livid if my husband got gin and I got lip balm!

What's wrong with homemade lip balm?!

Do people not eat their own friends homemade food unless they have a kitchen hygiene certificate? 😂

Having said that, I would say that gendered gifts are a bit naff and you are probably better off just giving everyone gin.

GIN FOR EVERYONE!

OP- I know you’ve been fairly outraged that people here haven’t embraced your plan. And I understand that you feel protective of it as you’ve clearly got a v clear idea of why you want to randomly branch out into making lip balms as part of your wedding-planning and don’t want to hear criticism of your excitedly-made plans.

But honestly, instead of being defensive and snide, if I were you I’d appreciate the fact you’re getting unbiased feedback here from a good cross section of women who will have been to thousands of weddings between them and who are UNANIMOUSLY telling you it’s a poorly thought-out plan on many fronts. I’d be feeling grateful for the feedback in your shoes, before I blundered off teaching myself how to mix up unwanted goop in my kitchen to foist onto half my wedding guests by dint of them owning vaginas instead of penises.

But maybe that’s just me? If you don’t want to have what is actually helpful feedback on ways you could improve the favor offer, then by all means crack-on with your potion experiments, but no need to have been so snide & prickly to the posters on here.

Hope your wedding goes smoothly though, and hope you enjoy the day.

Lip balm or actual booze. Hmmm no contest.
Everyone should get the miniature with lip balm for teetotallers and kids

I agree with others that I wouldn't use a cosmetic that's been made at home by someone who knows nothing about doing so. It's not like eating from people as if something doesn't taste good then you can tell straight away and there's most probably no damage done. But I wouldn't risk putting chemicals on my lips when I most likely have no idea what's in it, that can cause lasting damage.

I would be absolutely livid if the blokes got gin and I got lip balm. The lip calm would go straight in the bin anyway.

Give the women gin and the men a mini tonic, a miniature lemon or lime and a little sachet of those "botanicals" you can add to gin to customise it. Then they can all choose whether to club together with their gifts or not.

I’ve really enjoyed this thread. Especially the comments about being viscous

It’s funny. The biological composition of the male and female lips are identical. Yet only one is considered for gin flavoured moisturiser. The other gets a real favour.

And I would also immediately bin a home made lip balm.

If you don't watch out, your wedding will only be remembered for the time the men got booze and the women got shite lip balm. That and only that. Shit idea. Have a good wedding.

omg. A homemade lip balm? Are you having a laugh? Everyone will be like 'WTAF'

is it too soon to nominate this for classics?

Well I would like a gin lip balm, so when the rest of MN leave theirs on the table and drink their dh's gin, please send it to me!

Oh can I also get a gin miniature too tho please

OP, people are trying to save you time and money and do you a favour.

I had a very DIY wedding, although I made and sold things for a living so have a reasonably high level of quality control. Most of it worked brilliantly, but I cringe when I think of the favours.

Back then gendered favours were pretty standard and with everything else going on I honestly didn’t think too hard about it. They weren’t even favours really - rather than place cards I made name tags attached to a small bag with a treat in it. The men got sweets and chocolates and the women got bath salts type stuff...

I have no idea why I did this. I’d be really annoyed if I went to a wedding and DH got a bag of nice sweets while I got some bath salts I wouldn’t use. What was I thinking?

You do not need different favours for men and women. You really don’t.

Another vote for giving both gin!

Seriously, are people still doing gendered gifts in 2019? Really?

Ritmo - very well said that woman.

Ruggy - why thank you

Give us the gin!!! 💃🏽🍸💃🏽🍸💃🏽🍸💃🏽

Have enjoyed this thread immensely. Thank you everyone!

Yes, are all the threads on the Mn wedding board this much fun? I only came here by accident via Active Conversatiins, but maybe I should hang around more, despite being so uninterested in weddings I refused numerous proposals from now-DH and ended up getting married in jeans on my

This is a joke right?

Nobody wants a home made lip balm.

I don't fancy a gin flavoured lip balm, but I'd love an invitation. I've never been to a 1950s wedding.

Lip balm? Is it 1995 already?