Yu-Be Lip Balm

$5 at www.sephora.com

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I really don’t like lip balms that have beeswax in them. They tend to be waxy (duh), don’t smooth on my lips well, and don’t moisturize that well. As far as lip balms that contain beeswax this lip balm is better than most I’ve tried. It smoothes on fairly well and moisturizes decently. It does have a rather unpleasant herby smell and taste. It comes from the rosemary in it. Its not horrendous but I don’t particularly like it either. I like rosemary in my food and sprinkled on top of my focaccia bread but I don’t like it in my beauty products.

This moisturizes pretty well and isn’t horrendously waxy in texture. It’s a decent lip balm but I don’t think its worth the money. $5 may not seem like much but its twice as much as my normal lip balm and at the rate I use lip balm it only lasts me a couple weeks. I’ll stick with my Blistex.

Kiss My Face Lip Balm

$3.49 at drugstore.com

I’m not hugely picky about having natural products but I think its nice when possible. Kiss My Face is a great line of all natural beauty products. This lip balm is something I had not tried before but I got it as a Christmas gift from a co-worker. It comes in six flavors (coconut pineapple, strawberry, sliced peach, vanilla honey, treat mint, and cranberry orange). I got cranberry orange, which is much more orange than cranberry. The woman I’m working with got treat mint, which she says tastes like slightly sweet mint. This lip balm has SPF 15 which I like. Its sort of waxy in texture (which comes from both beeswax and organic beeswax as the second and fourth most common ingredients) and doesn’t moisturize that well. I have to reapply it much more often than my other lip balm. I’ll certainly use up the tube I have but I’m not sure I would buy it again.