Thank you for the A2A, Efrayim.

You asked:

“What is the main ingredient in lip balm?”

And:

“What are the ingredients in lip balm?”

If you're enquiring about a lip balm you've purchased, look at the ingredients label on the product.

The ingredients label for all cosmetics, skin and hair care list the ingredients from most to least.

The first ingredient listed is the ingredient with the highest percentage of the ingredients in that product's formula.

For example, here is the full list of ingredients for Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm[1]:

Ingredients: cera alba (beeswax, cire d'abeille), cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, mentha piperita (peppermint) oil, lanolin, tocopherolrosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, glycine soja (soybean) oil, canola oil (huile de colza), limonene.

The first ingredient listed is beeswax, so by percentage, there is more beeswax in the formula than any other ingredient.

Other lip balms, sold by Burt's Bees and other companies, will have different ingredients/different formulae.

So there isn't one formula/one set of ingredients, for lip balm.

If you're asking the question because you'd like to try your hand at making your own lip balm, I encourage you to Google:

lip balm recipes

There are literally tens of thousands of recipes for lip balms posted on the internet.

Which one you choose will depend upon the ingredients available to you, either ingredients you already have on-hand at home, or those you are able to purchase locally or order online.

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