Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm Tin 3 oz Review

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Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm Tin "World's Best Lip Balm" is a good natural lip balm. But the packaging stinks. It's better to buy a stick of Burt's Bees balm than fight with the tin to get it to open.

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Burt's Bees is dedicated to making natural products and I respect them for that. I try to use natural products when I can and it's easy to use natural lip balms because so many ingredients from nature are good for the lips. Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm Tin "World's Best Lip Balm" is good but by no means the best. I would like it much more if I could OPEN the tin! I can't tell you how many times I have tossed the little tin onto the floor because I just couldn't get it open. Still, when I DO get it open, this balm is soothing and rich.

This is a quarter sized tin of balm that is a golden color and smooths on nice. It soothes my lips and hydrates them. It doesn't have a fun taste or smell - I think it smells kind of yucky - but it's a good natural healing balm. My issue, as I said above, is with the tin. It doesn't really screw off and it doesn't really pull off. I have such a hard time with it! They sell the exact same balm in a Chapstick-like tube and it is more hygienic (No sticking your fingers into the balm) and less frustrating to use. I find that the tin balm is a bit thicker and heavier but I am willing to give that up for ease of use.

I do like the tingle I get with this product. It is much like Carmex (see my review) as far as the refreshing feeling it gives my lips. In fact, the two are very similar in many ways but I can open the Carmex tub!

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Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm Tin "World's Best Lip Balm" is a cute, natural tin of decent lip balm - no frills like taste and color, just balm to sooth chapped, dry lips - that would be an good product for me if I didn't have to fight with the tin to open it. I am sticking with the stick type of this balm and letting more patient people deal with the tin dilemma. A good - but not great - balm with bad packaging gets 2 stars but because it is mostly natural and good for you, even if you happen to swallow some by licking your lips, I am going with 3. Still, Burt, what's up with the amazing unopenable tin?