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Minty Soft Lips thanks to Burt's Bees
a busy professional, not a beauty product junkie, a lip balm junkie, a frequent sufferer of chapped lips
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MAY
6
2007
About Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm
Burt's Bees, the natural product company that started in Maine but now resides in North Carolina, calls their lip balm the "world's best lip balm". I don't know about all of that, but it certainly is good. The .3 ounce tin retails for $2.50 at the Burt's Bees website. The .15 ounce lip balm stick/tube retails for $2.50 as well. I had always suspected that the two products were formulated in completely different ways and checking the Burt's Bees website I found that my suspicions were correct, their ingredients are slightly different.
Tin Ingredients List: Coconut oil, beeswax, sweet almond oil, peppermint oil, tocopheryl acetate & tocopherol (vitamin E), lanolin, comfrey root extract, rosemary extract.
Tube Ingredients List: Beeswax, coconut oil, sunflower oil, tocopheryl acetate & tocopherol (vitamin E), lanolin, peppermint oil, comfrey root extract, rosemary extract.
The tin contains sweet almond oil, which the tube does not. And only the tube contains the sunflower oil. The difference in the ingredients accounts for the wildly different textures of the product in tin and tube form.
Using Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm
The first lip balm I bought was the tin version and I found using it very frustrating. This was one of the first products I tried from my sample kit and I still find it nearly impossible to get enough lip balm out of the tin and onto my fingers to moisten my lips. The tin contains a light yellow waxy substance that is extremely hard. I usually end up rubbing the darn pot of lip balm up to fifty times to scrounge up enough lip balm to make me happy. On the plus side, you won't run out of this tiny amount of lip balm for a good long while at the rate it comes out of the tin. The tube lip balm is much easier to use. It glides on much more smoothly and freely. For this reason I really prefer the tube balm over the tin of lip balm.
Both balms have a refreshing peppermint "taste" and smell and they both tingle slightly on my lips. I like this because it reddens up my lips a bit. In the wintertime especially they can turn a very, very pale pink which isn't the most attractive. And since I hate to wear lipstick, these lip balms help protect my lips and add some color to them.
How Well It Works
Both lip balms seem to provide the same amount of protection against chapped lips. The tube version of the lip balm seems to last a little longer, probably because I am able to use more of the product on my lips at a time. They both work very well at healing already chapped lips, as well as keeping them from getting chapped in the first place.
Cat's Bottom Line
If you're a lip balm addict like me, these two products from Burt's Bees will probably make you very happy. I would recommend the tube over the tin simply because the product is so much easier to dispense out of the tube and they both work equally as well. This is one of my many favorite Burt's Bees products.
Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm is recommended by Cat
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