DIY CRAYON LIPSTICK
Hey there, for our maker fair, we made crayola lipstick. We used coconut oil, vegetable oil and crayola crayons, we mostly used darker colors because they would show up better. We decided to do this project because we really liked the idea of organic eyeshadow, but could not find any organic mica powder..etc the process was also too easy, then we had the idea to make crayola lipstick (with ms Hills help ;)
We had a few problems with this recipe. Number one was that a lot of the pigment came out great (blue, red, purple…). We did not always have the best colors for lips, sometimes it did not totally show up (blue, green..etc). So we found that using darker colors would work better, but you can't make colors like nudes or pinks. Our second problem was that after we melted the crayons with the oils we had to pour it into the mold fast or it would harden and we would have to do it over again.
It took a lot of work to clean. And if we knew that it would take a lot of time, and patience then we would not have stressed as much as we did because of how much work it took to clean everything. Also take your time. When we first started we had an incident where we were so excited to start but also scared because the water was boiling and this was all of our first times working with the hot plate so we didn't know how to use it. We ended up dropping the bowl into the boiling hot water which really hurt. We also learned that glass doesn't mix well with hot and cold. We first started the lipstick making process with a big bowl. Then we all figured out that we could make more Lipstick colors if we use separate glass cups. (Obviously it took a while to clean) so instead of cleaning it with hot water we decided to clean it with cold water. Due to the reaction of hot water and cold water mixing together the cup bottoms popping off because of all the pressure.
We would make more lipstick because it actually was getting famous during maker faire. if we had more time we would probably make more colors and test out different amounts of ingredients to see how the pigment of them comes out Because a lot of our colors were the same texture so we wanna dig deeper in the subject. We also wish that we could have used JUST crayola crayons. But because our art room has everything and we use everything other than crayons for our projects; there for our art room doesn't need crayons but luckily we had some unlabeled crayons (THAT ARENT CRAYOLA; DON'T DRAG ME)
The price of doing this varies, because we used old crayons from our school art studio. People could buy a huge new pack, which would cost ($3.56 from walmart), coconut oil (would cost from 6-19 from walmart), vegetable oil (would cost from $3-$6 from walmart). Since we did not have a stove at school, we used a hot plate that costs $50 -$100 from amazon.
https://www.rookiemag.com/2013/10/diy-crayon-lipstick/
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