Creating Your Own Beard Balm: A Step-by-Step Guide

If you're looking for a unique and personalized gift for someone with a beard, creating your own beard balm is a great idea. It's a thoughtful and functional present that shows you care about their grooming needs. In this article, we'll take you through the process of making your own beard balm from scratch.

To start, you'll need a few basic ingredients. For our recipe, we'll be using jojoba oil, which is a lightweight oil that's easily absorbed into the skin and hair. You can also use other oils like coconut oil or sweet almond oil if you prefer. We'll also need beeswax, shea butter, and essential oils to give it a pleasant scent. If you don't have a double boiler, don't worry! You can use a pot and a glass bowl instead.

Take the pot and place it on top of the glass bowl. This will allow us to heat the ingredients gently and evenly. We want to avoid letting it come to a boil, as this can damage the ingredients. Instead, we'll aim for a low temperature that's perfect for melting the wax and oil together. Once you've got everything set up, add the jojoba oil, beeswax, and shea butter to the pot. Stir until they're fully melted and combined.

Now it's time to add our essential oils! We're using grapefruit and cedarwood in this recipe, but feel free to experiment with different scents to find one that you love. Add eight drops of each oil to the mixture and stir well. You can always adjust the amount of oil to your liking, but for now, let's stick with these amounts.

As we continue to heat the mixture, it will start to thicken and solidify. This is where the magic happens! If you want a firmer balm, you can leave it on the heat for a bit longer. But if you prefer a softer texture, just take it off the heat sooner. Either way, our beard balm is starting to come together.

Next, we're going to make a personalized pouch for our balm. You can use any type of fabric you like, but cotton or linen work well. If you want to add some extra flair, consider using a stencil or a stamp with your initials or a fun design. We're using a cute pair of scissors on our pouch, and we'll be stenciling it onto the fabric using freezer paper.

Freezer paper is a game-changer for stenciling. It's got a plastic backing that allows us to iron it onto the fabric easily and smoothly. Simply print out your design or use a stencil, cut it out with scissors or a craft knife, and then iron it onto the pouch. Make sure to dab off any excess paint before applying the freezer paper, as this will help prevent bleeding.

Once we've applied the freezer paper and let it cool, we'll peel it off and add some final touches to our pouch. We're using fabric paint and a dry brush technique to give it a vintage barbershop feel. The result is a beautiful and unique design that adds a personal touch to our balm.

Our beard balm is now complete! It's ready to be poured into tin containers and customized with your favorite essential oils. You can also add some decorative touches, like stickers or ribbons, to make it extra special. If you're planning on giving this as a gift, consider pairing it with a pair of scissors or a beard brush for an added bonus.

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anywhere all right we're gonna give that a little stir and then we can pour it right in but you can see it's already starting to harden so yeah you do want to work quickly our beard bomb is solidifying now we're going to make a personalized pouch by stenciling this cute pair of scissors on it I'm gonna cut this image out of freezer paper I printed it right on now you can buy freezer paper at the supermarket in a roll or you can buy it online that's already pre-cut printer size like we did and it makes it really nice and easy you may be wondering what is freezer paper freezer paper is something that you use for your food in the freezer it protects it from frostbite frost burn it has a plastic backing which is actually going to allow us to iron on the stencil right onto our pouch here and it's going to give us a nice clean line once we start stenciling and painting if you're having some trouble with your curves as you're cutting with a craft knife try turning the paper it makes it a lot easier and go as slow as you can really don't rush it just take your time now there's this little detail in the scissors this little hole right here instead of trying to cut that out I'm just gonna use a hole punch and that's gonna make it a lot easier I would not be able to cut a nice clean circle that small Andrew did a great job cutting out the stencil here now we're gonna iron it right to our pouch here and add on all the little details alright we have our stencil iron onto our pouch here and now we're gonna paint before we do that we're just gonna slide a piece of paper right in the pouch that's just gonna prevent any bleeding that might happen as I said so and we have some fabric paint here and the tip for stenciling on fabric and really the tip for stenciling on anything is to dab your paintbrush in but then dab off the excess paint you really wanted more less is more sensing is a dry brush technique it sure is alright it looks pretty good and we think it's dry so we're gonna peel off our freezer paper here and see how it came out big reveal cute cute good pretty good get the little details here oh my gosh oh so cute like a vintage barbershop yes that's what I was going for so cute look at that our beer bomb is all set ready to go we thought it'd be fun to add a little detail with the sticker we printed these online and they're the perfect size for our tins and then if you want to give this as a gift you can pair it with a pair of scissors or a beard brush or a comb and it's a perfect little travel kit I would love this as a gift to myself and now I know what to get you great and we made our own bierbaum beard balm of jojoba oil we made our own beard balm and we know exactly what's in it I love it smell it mmm smells good very cool I love is he a good up Father's Day gift - oh yeah that's true so we've made our own Cologne soap detergent hand lotion bars let us know in a comment below what you want to see us make next give us a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe and we'll see you soon but Ihey everyone welcome back to handmade we're the crafty lumberjack you know more sorry hey everyone welcome back to handmade oh god okay hey everyone we're the crafty Lumberjacks welcome back to handmade you know more more people want to know what's inside the products that they're putting on their bodies that's right and we've been making our own DIY products like our foaming hand soap and our laundry detergent so today we're gonna be creating our own beard balm yes let's get started so we're gonna be making our own beard balm and a beard balm is great because it helps moisturize your beard it also prevents rashes and itchiness yep until also helps stylize your beard style it also helps style your beard we like to do it at least once a day usually in the morning after we got out of the shower yeah so now if you remember our DIY cologne or are vegan lotion bars it's a very similar process to that you'd be surprised how few ingredients you actually need to make your own beard balm for this we're need two tablespoons of carnauba wax two tablespoons of cocoa butter 3 tablespoons of shea butter and two and a half tablespoons of OMA oil jojoba bless you thank you boba boba oil and this is gonna give us enough for two two ounce tins the great thing about this is you can make it in bulk and give them out as gifts yeah and these actually last longer than the products that you buy in the store absolutely yep so we're gonna start with a double broiler here we have some water in the bottom of our pot yeah we're going to start to melt down all of our ingredients right here in the pot now if you don't have a double boiler don't worry you can take a pot and then take a glass bowl and put it right on top a double boiler is important because you want to heat this up low and slow yeah you don't want to let it come to a boil and then two and a half teaspoon so I'm just gonna kind of eyeball this yeah this is great too because a lot of people never know what to get a dude for a gift for the holidays you know and this is perfect if you know someone who has a beard try this yeah absolutely whenever someone gives me anything beard related I'm thrilled actually I feel like every year I get you something beard related because I really I just don't know what else to get you Wow it's come to that yeah so Hova Hova all right it looks pretty good all of our ingredients are melted down well we're gonna pour it into our tin here but before we do that we want to take it off the heat and we're gonna add some essential oils that's another great part about creating your own you can create your own scent absolutely we're gonna be using grape front excuse me we're gonna be using grapefruit and sandalwood together they smell really good Oh actually that's cedar wood okay grapefruit and cedar wood all right so we're gonna start adding our essential oils I'm going to do about eight drops of each uh-huh we're gonna pretend Oh God take this guy anywhere all right we're gonna give that a little stir and then we can pour it right in but you can see it's already starting to harden so yeah you do want to work quickly our beard bomb is solidifying now we're going to make a personalized pouch by stenciling this cute pair of scissors on it I'm gonna cut this image out of freezer paper I printed it right on now you can buy freezer paper at the supermarket in a roll or you can buy it online that's already pre-cut printer size like we did and it makes it really nice and easy you may be wondering what is freezer paper freezer paper is something that you use for your food in the freezer it protects it from frostbite frost burn it has a plastic backing which is actually going to allow us to iron on the stencil right onto our pouch here and it's going to give us a nice clean line once we start stenciling and painting if you're having some trouble with your curves as you're cutting with a craft knife try turning the paper it makes it a lot easier and go as slow as you can really don't rush it just take your time now there's this little detail in the scissors this little hole right here instead of trying to cut that out I'm just gonna use a hole punch and that's gonna make it a lot easier I would not be able to cut a nice clean circle that small Andrew did a great job cutting out the stencil here now we're gonna iron it right to our pouch here and add on all the little details alright we have our stencil iron onto our pouch here and now we're gonna paint before we do that we're just gonna slide a piece of paper right in the pouch that's just gonna prevent any bleeding that might happen as I said so and we have some fabric paint here and the tip for stenciling on fabric and really the tip for stenciling on anything is to dab your paintbrush in but then dab off the excess paint you really wanted more less is more sensing is a dry brush technique it sure is alright it looks pretty good and we think it's dry so we're gonna peel off our freezer paper here and see how it came out big reveal cute cute good pretty good get the little details here oh my gosh oh so cute like a vintage barbershop yes that's what I was going for so cute look at that our beer bomb is all set ready to go we thought it'd be fun to add a little detail with the sticker we printed these online and they're the perfect size for our tins and then if you want to give this as a gift you can pair it with a pair of scissors or a beard brush or a comb and it's a perfect little travel kit I would love this as a gift to myself and now I know what to get you great and we made our own bierbaum beard balm of jojoba oil we made our own beard balm and we know exactly what's in it I love it smell it mmm smells good very cool I love is he a good up Father's Day gift - oh yeah that's true so we've made our own Cologne soap detergent hand lotion bars let us know in a comment below what you want to see us make next give us a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe and we'll see you soon but I\n"