Beard Balm Recipe - DIY Homemade Beard Wax - The Herbeevore (2024)

This homemade DIY beard balm recipe is a hydrating and moisturizing balm for any facial hair which conditions for an all-natural shine. Made with beeswax, oils, and shea butter, this is one balm that you can use day after day.

This is a fantastic facial hair product that is made with natural ingredients, including the scents. Add your favorite essential oils to customize it (I love cedar oil, such an amazing smell)!

Whether you’re making this for yourself or that special man in your life, this easy DIY beeswax beard balm is a fantastic product that men will love. My hubby (and his lumberjack beard!) was definitely the inspiration for this recipe.

Brett was using an fancy expensive beard balm that he bought online… but he hated the smell. I decided to make one for him that had a very subtle scent and made with all natural ingredients. And he loved it, this beard wax recipes gets the beekeeper’s husband seal of approval.

This is super easy to make, and also makes a great gift for the facial hair aficionado in your life.

This Homemade Beard Wax Recipe Is:

• Woodsy
• Slightly Fragrant
• Moisturizing
• Not greasy
• Simple to Make
• Has all natural oils and ingredients
• Is a great daily beard conditioner

What’s In This DIY Beeswax Beard Balm Recipe?

• Extra virgin olive oil
• Coconut Oil: I love keeping a few jars of this organic coconut oil on hand, it’s great for cooking and also a really nice skin moisturizer outside the kitchen.
• Natural Beeswax:I used beeswax from our beehives, but I’d recommendan organic cosmetic-grade beeswax like this one. Why organic and cosmetic-grade? If you have any beeswaxleftover from making this beard balm, you can use it for some simple and easy hand and skin products. I have an incredible recipe forDIY Beeswax Lip Balmthat gets rave reviews. If there’s a local beekeeper in your area, I’d recommended starting there for wax, but if you buy online,make sure you get the good stuff! And for a vegan plant-based alternative, you can use candelilla wax instead.
• Vitamin E Oil:this oil conditions and moisturizes.
• Shea Butter: will moisturize and condition your skin… I love this shea butter I get here (and honestly, anything from Anthony’s Organics) and it’s actually cheaper than other non-organic shea butters for the same price. If you have leftovers you can add some to homemade hand salve or homemade deodorant.
• Woodsy Essential Oils: I love this set online here which has 6 different woodsy scents, which is perfect for this beard balm. Pine or cedar give this beard balm just a hint of the outdoors.
• A Double Boiler:the safest way to melt the wax is overa double boileron the stove top.Remember: wax is flammable, so take care to not melt the wax directly in a hot pot. Adouble boileris heated with hot water, and acts as a buffer between the heat and the wax. Once you melt the wax you can add the rest of the beard balm ingredients and mix in the double boiler.
• Wide Mouth Glass Jars – these wider-mouth 4 ounce jars are perfect for this job – they are wide enough to fit a beard brush in there for easy application. Other cosmetic jars usually have a smaller lid.

What’s A Vegan Alternative to Beeswax?

If you don’t want to use beeswax, you can use candelilla wax which is a vegetable-based wax instead made from the candelilla shrub. This is a plant-based wax for those who choose not to use animal products. You can use it as an alternative to beeswax in this recipe, although I will admit I haven’t tested it yet. You can read about the uses and benefits of candelilla wax here, too.

Where Does Beeswax Come From Anyway?

As a beekeeper, we have a lot of wax left over from when we harvest honey from the hives. Bees make the wax to create “cells”, which form that hexagonal honeycomb pattern. The cells can be used to lay eggs, raise brood, and keep honey that the bees store for the winter. The honey is stored in these hexagonal cells, and when the moisture has been cured out from the honey, the bees will cover the cells with a wax seal. This is called capping. It preserves the honey for the winter, and keeps the moisture from ruining their honey stores.

When we harvest honey, we scrape the honey and wax from the frames. Once the honey gets filtered into a separate bucket (which we then jar up and use to make amazing honey recipes!) we are left with the wax. We melt the wax to remove any impurities, and then keep it to make great products like this!

Here is a frame full of honey, perfectly capped in beeswax:

How Do I Make Homemade Beard Wax?

1. Add 3 cups of water to a small pot on the stove top, and bring to a boil.
2. Please the double boiler on top of the pot, and add all ingredients except the essential oils. Allow the boiler to heat the ingredients they are melted, and stir with a metal whisk to combine.
3. Once ingredients have been stirred and have liquified, remove the double boiler from the heat, and stir in the essential oils.
4. Carefully pour the balm into jars (I used these wide mouth 4 ounce jars) and allow balm to cool at room temperature.

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DIY Beard Balm Recipe

Kelly Jensen

This homemade DIY beard balm recipe is a hydrating and moisturizing balm for your beard which conditions for an all-natural shine. Made with beeswax, oils, and shea butter, this is one balm that you can use day after day.

5 from 15 votes

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Prep Time 2 minutes mins

Cook Time 8 minutes mins

Total Time 10 minutes mins

Course DIY, Home & Beauty

Cuisine American

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Servings 1 jar

Equipment

• double boiler

• mason jars

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/4 cup coconut oil
• 2 tablespoons beeswax
• 2 tablespoons shea butter
• 10 drops Vitamin E oil
• 10 drops essential oils

Instructions

• Add 3 cups of water to a small pot on the stove top, and bring to a boil.

• Please the double boiler on top of the pot, and add all ingredients except the essential oils. Allow the boiler to heat the ingredients they are melted, and stir with a metal whisk to combine.

• Once ingredients have been stirred and have liquified, remove the double boiler from the heat, and stir in the essential oils.

• Carefully pour the balm into jars (I used these wide mouth 4 ounce jars) and allow balm to cool at room temperature.

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