Common ingredients in homemade lip balm are beeswax, coconut oil, shea butter, honey and olive or avocado oil. Kiley Cruse/The World-Herald Lip balm is easy to make using organic ingredients.

To make beeswax lip balm, take 1 tablespoon of beeswax, 1 tablespoon of coconut oil, 1 teaspoon of honey, and 2 vitamin E capsules. Put the beeswax in a saucepan and melt it on medium heat.