Lipstick manufacturing is a process consisted of several simple stages, which can be easily executed at home. Moreover, lipstick manufacturing doesn’t require a lot of money, and it has such a significant advantage as 100% naturalness of ingredients. A manufacturer can pick and vary ingredients according to desirable end product. A premium can be placed on moisturizing, nourishing, skin protection, fight with aging.

 

What ingredients can be homemade lipstick made of  

There are a lot of various formulas of homemade lipstick. You can combine and interchange some ingredients, but there is a basic content, as general:

• solid base: beeswax, candelilla wax, palm wax, carnauba wax, or shea, cocoa and coconut butter;
• natural oils (tea tree oil, peach-kernel oil, jojoba) and encapsulated vitamins (А, Е, С): make lipstick glazy and also nourishing, moisturizing, protecting, etc.;
• coloring agents: create tones (cinnamon, cocoa, alkanet, etc.);
• sweeteners and perfume.

A proper lipstick structure looks like this:

• 30% natural oils;
• 40% butter;
• 30% wax.

 

Stages of lipstick manufacturing at home

To make lipstick at home you will need the following equipment:

• kitchen utensils for cooking on steam bath;
• dosing spoons and syringe;
• wooden spoon for mixing;
• casting molds;
• containers for packaging (cans, tubes).

The technology of lipstick manufacturing is standardized and doesn’t depend on its formula:

• measuring of needed portions of ingredients;
• melting of wax and mixing it with butter and oils in the tank for heating on steam bath (don’t let it boil);
• add oils, vitamins, coloring agent, perfume and sweetener to the hot mixture;
• stir it thoroughly;
• draw the mixture up with a syringe and distribute into the molds;
• put the molds into refrigerator;
• take the solidified lipsticks out of the molds and put them into the tubes.

 

Where to buy equipment for lipstick production

As it has been described above, almost all necessary equipment for lipstick production can be found in any kitchen. You will only need to buy casting molds and tubes.

The Repharm company offers not only good natural cosmetic products, but also its in-house development – the equipment for lipstick manufacturing. These are compact molds with a capacity of 136 pieces, which may help either to manufacture lipstick at home, or to start small business.

The casting molds by Repharm have the following advantages:

• their quality is equal to foreign analogues, and at the same time they have low cost;
• this equipment was developed relying on in-house lipstick manufacturing experience and it has high performance;
• the molds have low weight and compact two-piece design, which can be easily put into a standard refrigerator;
• mirror-like surface of molds allows to make a product similar to the one, manufactured automatically.

Molds by Repharm can be used also for industrial manufacturing. Running one mold you can produce 136 identical lipsticks per 1 hour, 500–1088 pieces – per 1 standard week day. Besides that, the Repharm company produces custom-built casting molds for lipstick manufacturing according to special needs.

Making lipstick at home is a simple process, which has some easy stages and doesn’t need much time and money. Everyone can make their own lipstick from natural ingredients of a wide range of colors and features like nourishing, moisturizing, protecting etc.

 

What are the ingredients to make lipstick

There are lots of homemade lipstick recipes, you can combine some of them at your own discretion, but the basic composition is commonly the following:

• Waxes or butters like beeswax, candelilla wax, carnauba wax, palm wax or shea butter, cocoa butter etc. This is a solid base of your lipstick.
• Essential oils like green tea oil, peach oil or jojoba, some capsule vitamins which should bring the shining, nourishing and moisturizing.
• Natural pigments for coloring: cinnamon, cocoa powder, turmeric or beetroot.
• Flavorings.

Normal consistency is about 30% wax, 40% butters and 30% essential oils, but it may vary.

 

The stages of lipstick manufacturing process

For the lipstick making you will need some tools:

• Kitchenware for melting waxes and butters;
• Dose-measuring devises and syringe;
• Wooden spoon for stirring;
• Lipstick molds or its substitute or containers;

The manufacturing technology is the same for every recipe:

• Preparing and measuring ingredients;
• Melting wax, butters and basic oils (don’t let them boil);
• Adding essential oils, vitamins, pigments, flavorings etc., stirring;
• Filing in lipstick molds or containers with the syringe or spoon;
• Solidification in the fridge and placing sticks in the tubes.

Where to buy lipstick manufacturing equipment

You can see, that all the needed equipment for making the lipstick is available on every kitchen. You just have to pay attention to lipstick molds and tubes. This is not obligatory for the own use, but for sale.

The company Repharm offers not only wide range of cosmetics, but the equipment for the lipstick manufacturing of its own design. Compact lipstick molds capacity is 136 pieces that enough for home making and for business manufacturing.

 

Repharm lipstick mold’s advantages:

• The mold’s quality is not inferior to it alternatives but costs much less;
• Our molds designed using our experience of lipstick and chapstick manufacturing and has a good producing performance;
• The molds have low weight and compact size that allow to put it into the fridge;
• High lustre molds polishing allows to produce lipsticks of highest quality as automatic lines do.

Using one mold you can produce 136 lipstick an hour or 1088 lipsticks a day.

Lipstick production is a very good investment that doesn’t require a lot of money. The process of manufacturing can be carried out either automatically by assembly line technique, or at home. The list of needed ingredients is more or less identical:

• wax (beeswax, carnauba, candelilla) – makes lipstick firm, glazy, forms a hard consistency;
• fat (lanolin, mink oil) – makes the texture soft and homogeneous;
• oils (castor oil) – forms a bold line and even distribution during application;
• film-forming ingredients (silicone derivatives);
• color base;
• vitamins;
• perfume;
• herbal extracts.

 

Automated lipstick manufacturing

This is the way to make lipstick in industrial-scale volumes. This process requires the following equipment:

• a tank for mixing and pasteurizing of ingredients;
• a homogenizer for ingredients’ grinding;
• molds;
• a pump to fill in molds.

The process of automatic lipstick manufacturing consists of several stages:

• mixing of prearranged and measured ingredients;
• melting of the mixture at low temperature;
• grinding of coloring ingredients;
• mixing of lipstick base with color agents;
• casting into molds;
• cooling-down of compound;
• packaging.

First, it gives you a chance to make the lipstick of perfect color tone;

Secondly, it’s a guarantee of using only natural ingredients;

Thirdly, you can make your own special formula.

 

What ingredients you may need to make DIY lipstick

The correct ingredients in a lipstick formula can help you to take care of your lips in a proper way, they will moisturize your skin, nourish and protect it. The cosmetologists and medical professionals recommend the following components:

• wax — it’s a solid base of this cosmetic product. It can be beeswax (acts as an antiseptic, protects, softens the skin and prevents dehydration), candelilla or carnauba wax (anti-inflammatory action), jasmine wax (soothes and softens the skin), mimosa wax (deep hydrating effect);
• natural oils and butters (shea and cocoa butter, olive, palm, grape seeds oils) soften, moisturize and nourish the skin, make lipstick texture smooth and homogeneous;
• herbal extracts: wheat germ (rejuvenates and regenerates skin), ginger (soothes, nourishes), tangerine, rose, vanilla (moisturize, nourish) and others;
• honey — provides skin with lots of useful nutrients;
• castor oil — has therapeutic, soothing, anti-inflammatory value;
• vitamins (А, С, Е, В) — deeply nourish and moisture skin, regenerate cells, fight aging;
• natural colorants: cocoa, cinnamon, turmeric, sea buckthorn oil and others.

The handmade lipstick production is very simple: first you melt wax in a water bath, then add the rest ingredients, stirring them constantly. After that put this mixture in the mold and freeze.