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?

@merryhouse Actual distilling is illegal without a license, but making gin from vodka, flavoured with botanicals, is fine. Unless OP is so intent on making homemade 'favours' that she's willing to flaunt the law

merryhouse my dbil is in the police and gives out dsis’s homemade gin at Christmas. I really don’t think anyone cares about you making small amounts of gin in your own home. It might be different if you’ve got a whole distillery going on but I don’t think that’s an issue for most.

We had 'favours' which were little chocolates in individual boxes. But as we didn't do a table plan or have the tables laid formally, they just went on the table near the cakes and people helped themselves (not sure they even knew I was calling them favours). I'm sure many children helped themselves to several each but I neither noticed nor cared!

I can't remember ANY of the favours I got from weddings I've been to, except my cousin's where I was a bridesmaid and I've still got that one. So unless you're particularly involved in the wedding, I'm not sure what the point is.

Haven’t brides got enough to do in the run up to a wedding without twatting around boiling up cauldrons of gunk that are going to go straight in the bin?

After much research on wedding favours, we went with chocolate. They went down well with everyone except the mother of the one child there when dc's father fed them a massive chocolate pinecone when she wasn't looking

Seriously, nobody keeps non edibles unless it's useful like a penknife. Do not need personalised coosies, seeds, bottle openers, keyrings, soap or deeley boppers. I don't know anyone who has a keyring full of other people's wedding dates.

Another poster getting their backs up at perfectly good advice. At least it was good for the craic!

Try www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk. They have a really good recipe for lip balm. You can also buy a lip balm kit which you can add your own flavour.
They also have various colours (mica) which you can add.
I hope this helps.

People are obviously going to give opinions on your dated and sexist wedding favour when you post in weddings. Google would be more appropriate for this or posting in a different part of the forum. The wedding detail wasn't needed, so to me it seems like you know this would cause a ruckus and are a bit bored. Or you're incredible naive.

If every single one of your female (and male) friends and family buy into this bullshit I'm worried you're part of a cult to be honest. Or have time travelled from the 1940s.

OP, I haven’t read the whole thread, only the first page for my sanity’s sake. Wish I could have given you advice before you posted- this is the sort of responses you often (not always, luckily) get on Mumsnet Weddings (other boards are helpful). I naively posted a question a while ago that mattered to me and the volume of ‘That is so boring/awful/I would decline your wedding invite/ Why are you doing that’ responses instead of answering my question was unbelievable 🤦🏻‍♀️
Hope you find a good recipe! There are UK wedding websites with message boards where you will get more direct answers next time.

And OP, I think you should stick with whatever favours you want. You know your guests and what will work best. I personally wouldn’t have been offended at different favours for me and my partner, far too many people get offended by anything these days. You can’t please everyone with favours- some people like chocolate favours, others like a drink or something different.

You COULD do this easily enough. Lip balm is basically a mix of beeswax and oil (sweet almond or similar). You wouldn’t want to use actual gin, because that’s alcohol, very drying on skin and would basically cancel out the benefit of the balm. So you’d replicate the flavour with essential oils- probably juniper, orange, lemon and bay would be a good starting point. But. I don’t think the results would be good. Juniper and bay essential oils taste very bitter and nasty. You’d only use tiny quantities, not enough to be toxic, but it really wouldn’t be a pleasant taste on your lips. Also, I’ve made lip balm myself before and it’s a major faff. It takes quite a lot of time to melt the beeswax enough to get it smooth rather than grainy in texture, and the wax sticks to everything and is a bugger to clean off- you may as well write off any pans, bowls and utensils you use in the process. And the results are ok, but really not worth the faff. And nobody cares about wedding favours, most of them just get left on tables. I honestly wouldn’t bother. But you were pretty hell bent on ignoring everyone telling you this in the couple of pages I read, so good luck.

Sounds like a waste of time and money.
I’d just use the cash to put a full size bottle of gin on each table .

Oh my god. She didn't ask for your opinions on gendered gifts!! 😂😂 I would love a gin lip balm and my husband would give me his gin too so win win. You know your guests and with those numbers I'd go for it!
I.have no idea on recipe though.but good luck!!

Save yourself the hassle.

White stuff gin balm 3 for £9.

I’d be biting my lip, not soothing it, if men fit actually gin and women got home made him lip balm. Which sounds revolting.

I went to a wedding once where we were served gendered desserts.
Massive portions of I think sticky toffee pudding with cream etc for the blokes and basically petit fours for the women.
The bride told me how genius she was as they always felt full at weddings.
I remember looking round at 50 pissed off women and 50 laughing blokes and thinking
welcome to the 1950s!