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One of the best ways to get new lipstick is by recycling old crayons. While many name-make lipsticks contain a wide array of chemicals, lipsticks made from crayons are non-toxic, include a unmarried ingredient, and take been handled by y'all solitary. Plus, producing customized shades can be lots of fun. This commodity will testify you how to brand lipstick out of crayons, and will too give you a few customization ideas.

Ingredients[1] [2]

  • ane non-toxic crayon
  • ½ teaspoon shea butter
  • ¼ to ½ teaspoon nutrient-grade oil (almond, argan, kokosnoot, jojoba, or olive)
  • Cosmetic glitter (optional)
  • 1-ii drops of essential oil or excerpt (optional)

  1. 1

    Select your lipstick container. You will demand to store your lipstick in something and then that it doesn't get dusty or dingy. Here is a list to give you some ideas:

    • Contact lens case
    • Empty lipstick or chap stick tubes
    • Empty lip lotion container
    • Empty centre shadow or blush containers
    • Pill boxes

  2. 2

    Clean and sterilize your container. If y'all accept not already done so, clean your container well using lather and warm h2o. Wipe your container downward using a cotton ball soaked with rubbing alcohol; apply a cotton swab to get into small spaces, such as corners.

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  3. 3

    Continue the container open and ready information technology aside. Your lipstick volition start to harden speedily and you lot will need to pour it into its container before it sets. Make sure that your containers are inside reach and open, so that they will be ready.

  4. iv

    Remove the paper from the crayons. You can practise this past placing the crayon under warm, running h2o for a few minutes, then peeling the wrapper off.[3] Yous can likewise use a craft knife to score a shallow line downward the length of the crayon and pare the newspaper off.

    • Dispose of crayon parts that were not covered by newspaper, every bit these parts may be tainted with germs, bacteria or other crayon colors.

  5. 5

    Break the crayon into four equal parts. Hold the crayon betwixt your fingers and snap information technology into smaller pieces. If you lot are having difficulties breaking the crayons, you can cut them using a sharp knife. Breaking the crayon into smaller pieces will not only make it easier to melt, but it will also make it easier to mix colors together.

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  1. 1

    Gather a double-banality. Make full a pot with 1 to 2 inches (2.54 to five.08 centimeters) with water. Place a metal or rut-rubber glass bowl on acme of the pot. The bottom of the bowl should not be touching the surface of the h2o.

  2. 2

    Plow the stove on and bring the water to a boil. You volition be using the hot steam to melt the crayon, butter, and oils.

  3. iii

    One time the water in the saucepan is boiling, reduce the oestrus to medium-depression. [4] You lot are working in pocket-sized amounts, and so your ingredients will melt faster. Using a lower temperature will forestall them from melting too fast.

  4. 4

    Put the crayon pieces into the basin and allow them brainstorm to cook. You can use all one color, or you can combine unlike colors to create your own unique shade. Stir the crayon pieces occasionally with a fork or spoon.

  5. five

    Add together the shea butter and food-grade oil into the bowl. Yous can use any type of food-form oil, only some oils (such as coconut oil) might give the lipstick a more pleasant taste and smell than others.

    • For a sheer lipstick, apply ½ teaspoon of oil; for a more intense color, utilise but ¼ teaspoon.[5]

  6. 6

    Proceed stirring the ingredients until everything is completely melted. At this signal, yous can also add in additional ingredients, such every bit extracts or essences, or even some cosmetic-form glitter.

  7. seven

    Lift the bowl off the pot. Utilise oven mitts or a dish towel to lift the bowl so that you exercise not burn yourself.

  8. 8

    Pour the lipstick into the empty container. Use a spoon to help guide it into the container so that the melted wax does not get everywhere.

  9. 9

    Allow the lipstick to cool. You lot can allow it cool in the kitchen (or whatever room you were making information technology in), or you can go out it in the freezer or fridge.

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  1. i

    Prepare a candle downwardly on a oestrus-safe surface and lite it. Yous tin can use a friction match or lighter. Make sure that yous are working close to a sink, or have water close past, in example the candle tips over.

  2. ii

    Hold the spoon above the flame. Go on the spoon virtually one inch (ii.54 centimeters) above the flame.[6]

  3. iii

    Identify the crayon pieces into the spoon and let them melt. It will accept about 30 seconds before the crayons start to melt.[7] Be sure to stir them occasionally using a toothpick.

  4. 4

    Add together in the shea butter and oil, and stir some more using a toothpick. You tin use any type of food-grade oil, but some types, such every bit coconut oil, will give the lipstick a nicer odor and gustatory modality.

    • For sheer lipstick, use ½ teaspoon of your chosen oil.
    • For a more than intense color, employ ¼ teaspoon of your chosen oil.

  5. five

    Keep stirring the ingredients until they cook completely. At this point, you lot tin add in other ingredients, such as an extract for flavor or corrective glitter for shimmer. If the spoon becomes too hot to concur, consider using an oven mitt or wrapping the handle with a towel.

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    Pour the melted ingredients into the container. Once the ingredients accept melted and there are no more lumps, pull the spoon abroad from the flame and advisedly pour the melted lipstick into the container. Be sure to accident out the candle.

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    Allow the lipstick absurd. Yous can leave the lipstick to cool in the room you were working in, or you tin can stick the container into the refrigerator or freezer.

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    Consider adding some sparkle with cosmetic glitter. Avoid using craft glitter; even the finest grain craft glitter will be too mesomorphic to use for lipstick. Endeavour using some cosmetic-class glitter instead; you can purchase it in a beauty store or online.

    • You can also utilize metallic crayons to create a pearlescent lipstick.

  2. two

    Consider using castor oil to give your lipstick some polish. When making your lipstick, use castor oil instead of the food-form oil.

  3. three

    Create custom colors by mixing 2 or more crayon colors together. You tin mix yet many colors you want, so long as you lot stop upwards with what amounts to i crayon. Here are some color combinations you can try:[8] [nine]

    • To deepen a pink colour, add some deep burgundy.
    • If the pink is too bright, add together some peach-colored crayon.
    • Create a shimmery red-violet by mixing ane part Gold and 2 parts Red Violet. You can add together more shimmer with some gold corrective glitter.
    • Use one part each of Melon and Magenta to create a vivid pink.
    • Create a bright reddish using i function each of Ruby-red Orange and Wild Strawberry.
    • For a creamy, neutral color, use 1 part each of Bittersweet and Peach.
    • For a silvery purple, employ 1 part each of Silverish and Violet.

  4. 4

    Use extracts and essences and oils to add flavour and odour. You volition merely need one or ii drops of your chosen extract, essence or oil. Keep in mind that certain flavors and scents will be stronger than others, so you volition need to use a little flake more/less. Go along in mind that the flavor and scent will get stronger after the lipstick hardens.[10] Here is a listing of extracts and essences that work well in homemade lipstick:

    • Kokosnoot
    • Grapefruit or tangerine
    • Peppermint
    • Vanilla

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  • Question

    Is it okay to just add together coconut oil merely?

    Community Answer

    Aye information technology is but if you want a ameliorate scent, yous might also wish to add the extract oils. Just be certain they're suitable for consumption.

  • Question

    What can I practise if I have added too much oil?

    Community Answer

    If you've accidentally added too much oil, simply add together more of the other ingredients then that the ratio stays the same.

  • Question

    What Information technology you lick your lips with your crayon lipstick on?

    Community Answer

    It'southward possibly worse licking your lips with lipstick on them, equally y'all don't know what the substances are inside of it since few brands publish consummate ingredients lists. The crayon lipstick volition not practise anything to y'all if you lick your lips when wearing it. Kids eat crayons and they are okay, that's why children'southward crayons are made to be non-toxic.

  • Question

    Is it possible to melt the crayons in a microwave?

    Community Answer

    Yeah.

  • Question

    Will information technology cause damage if the crayon is toxic?

    Community Answer

    Aye, equally toxic crayons may contain lead and cause pb poisoning. Wait for children'due south make crayons that are specifically labeled to exist "non-toxic."

  • Question

    What if I don't take shea butter?

    Community Answer

    Instead of shea butter, y'all can use kokosnoot oil or petroleum jelly.

  • Question

    How long volition it last and how practice you apply it?

    Community Answer

    The crayon lasts long on lips, just every bit it would on paper. You tin can apply your finger to apply information technology or you could use whatsoever appropriate applicator.

  • Question

    It says to cutting off bits non covered by paper. Should I cut the tip off so?

    Community Answer

    Yes, especially the tip of it that was used to color with because yous never know what that paper had touched and you don't desire to become sick.

  • Question

    Is it bad to put crayon on my lips?

    Community Answer

    Most children's crayons are non-toxic, and are by and large safe to eat. Crayola's crayons practice non incorporate many common allergens, such as peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, milk, casein, nut oil, D&C red dye #40 or latex. Crayola has said that melting should exist done in a well-ventilated area and that melting crayons may release irritating fumes.

  • Question

    Is there a substitute for shea butter?

    Askpipa

    You tin use Vaseline or coconut butter equally the moisturizing ingredient.

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  • Try to get higher-quality, brand-named crayons; lower quality crayons, such as those in restaurants, tend to exist less pigmented and more waxy.

  • Consider using a funnel to aid guide the melted lipstick into narrow containers, such as empty lipstick and chap stick tubes.

  • Keep in mind that sure colors tend to be more than pigmented than others.

  • Also know that if y'all desire more than of a tinted lip lotion or something where the colour isn't every bit intense try 1/2 a crayon instead of an entire one.

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  • Crayon manufacturers do not endorse the use of crayons for makeup. Crayola has gone so far as to state that information technology discourages and does not recommend the apply of crayons every bit makeup.[11] On the other hand, the "rigorous" testing makeup obviously undergoes is about as transparent as mud, so you lot be the judge.

  • Exist enlightened of reactions and irritations. Crayons have only been tested to exist used artistically; they have non been tested to be used cosmetically. As such, the long-term effects of using crayons as lipstick are not known.[12]

  • Do not pour melted lipstick downwardly the sink. If you accept any lipstick leftover, either pour information technology into another container or dump information technology into the trash. If yous cascade information technology into the sink, it will harden and create a clog.[13]

  • Be aware that crayons have a college lead content than regular lipstick. To prevent whatsoever complications, avert using this lipstick on a daily basis; consider using it only once or twice a month, or for costumes and special events.[14]

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Things Yous'll Need

  • Pot
  • Metal or heat-safe drinking glass container
  • Something to stir with
  • Small containers (contact lens cases, empty chap stick tube or lip balm container, pill boxes)
  • Large spoon
  • Candle
  • Toothpick
  • Small containers (contact lens cases, empty chap stick tube or lip balm container, pill boxes)

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