Vegan Lip Balm
- Description
A vegan alternative to our best-selling original lip balm and completely plastic-free, our lip balm is delicately hand poured in small batches with natural and high quality ingredients meant to repair and hydrate chapped lips. All of our ingredients are 100% natural and are sustainably and ethically sourced.
Tip: our vegan lip balm formula can get a little dry if not used for several days, due to dry air in the winter. Rub on your lips a few times to warm it up and it'll work good as new!
Ingredients
*shea butter (butyrospermum parkii), *sunflower seed oil (helianthus annuus), sunflower seed wax (helianthus annuus cera), *pure peppermint essential oil (mentha piperita)
*certified organic
+certified fair trade
Ingredients benefits
Sunflower oil: moisturizing, antioxidant, healing
Shea butter: moisturizing, anti-inflammatory, healing
Sunflower wax: healing, moisturizing, calming, nourishing and antibacterial properties
Peppermint essential oil: anti-bacterial, antimicrobial, cool and refreshing aroma
(no essential oil for unscented option)
How to use
Push up from the bottom of the tube, using your finger.
How to store
Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. Avoid contact with water. And don't forget it in a pocket when you do laundry!
Shelf Life
24+ months if kept in ideal conditions.
Packaging
Biodegradable paper tube.
End of life
Compost in your backyard or city curbside bin!
Organic Shea Butter
Shea Butter is incredibly moisturizing, healing, restorative, anti-inflammatory and promotes skin elasticity. We only use certified Fair Trade and USDA Organic certified Shea Butter in our formulations.
Our Shea Butter is refined using a non chemical process to naturally deodorize. We found that most customers didn't enjoy its natural scent, especially in our unscented formulations. But thankfully, we can benefit from the same properties shea butter has to offer, refined or not.
In this refining process, Shea butter is physically extracted from the shea nuts after the shells have been peeled, boiled and cracked. Once the butter has been melted to separate from the shell, it goes through additional non-chemical processing steps to result in a white and deodorized material. This involves repeated filtering, washing with hot water, and multiple stages of heating and cooling.
Organic Sunflower Oil
Quality matters. We only use pure virgin, high oleic, organic sunflower oil for our formulations. This unrefined oil retains vitamin content and is high in vitamin E. As an antioxidant, vitamin E helps with premature aging and wrinkles, and the linoleic acid helps the skin retain moisture.
Sunflower Wax
An alternative to beeswax for our vegan friends. Sunflower wax is moisturizing, calming, and helps form a protective barrier on the skin that locks in moisutre.
Organic Pure Peppermint Essential Oil
Not all essential oils are created equal, and the quality of essential oils is obvious in their scent. Our peppermint essential oil, aka Mentha Piperita, has a robust, fresh, and sweet undertone and is harvested from fresh organic peppermint leaves. It has no fillers, phthalates or synthetic fragrance.
We chose to add this to our lip balm because nothing says fresh quite like peppermint. Due to its menthol properties, it can induce a cooling sensation when applied to the skin, but we make sure to keep it at a low concentration to avoid any tingling.
Our Unscented Lip Balm has no added essential oils.