Archive for August, 2008
Kiss My Face Organic Lip Balm
Kiss My Face makes a wide range of organic bath and body products, including one of my absolute favorite lip balms.
Kiss My Face Certified Organic Lip Balm, SPF 15, Cranberry Orange is perfect for me in several ways:
- It has SPF 15, so I can use it outside. I’m a stickler for always having sunscreen on my lips!
- It is organic, which while not essential to me, I certainly do not complain about.
- It is medium in texture, so it isn’t too heavy/waxy but also not too light/oily.
- It tastes and smells great!
Here are the ingredients. I find the addition of titanium dioxide as one of the sunscreens particularly nice because that one won’t degrade in sunlight and provides full spectrum protection:
Active Ingredients (sunscreens): Octyl Methoxycinnamate, Benzophenone 3, Titanium Dioxide
Inactive Ingredients: Canola Oil (Certified Organic), Bees Wax (Certified Organic), Lecithin, Coconut Oil (Certified Organic), Royal Jelly, Propolis, Aloe Vera (Certified Organic), L Lysine, Tocopherol (Natural Vitamin E), Fruit Flavors (100% Natural)
My only complaint is that it doesn’t last quite as long as I think it could, although without making it waxier, that might be difficult.
Kiss My Face products are often available at natural food markets and health food stores. I have also seen them in some larger cosmetic stores and aisles. You can also comparison shop for Kiss My Face products on Bizrate/Shopzilla.
Popularity: 8% [?]
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Weekend Reading From the Beauty Blog Network
For your weekend reading, here are some of the week’s best posts from around the Beauty Blog Network.
Find out what yummy scented body souffle The Makeup Divas is all excited about.
Losing sleep over your dark circles? Beauty Junkie in SF has found a little tube from Smashbox to help brighten those eyes and make them camera ready.
Roselyn from Makeup Makes Me Happy counts down the 10 most wacky beauty tips, that actually work!. You may just be surprised to see what they are!
Katharine Towne of HBO’s hit show, Tell Me You Love Me reveals her beauty tips **exclusively** to Beauty Banter!
Find out why the Muse is excited about Urban Decay’s New Lipsticks with a detailed review and swatches of four shades!.
A Touch of Blusher brings you Fall 2008 Makeup Trend Report.
Beauty Anonymous reveals her travel-friendly beauty goodies.
Beauty411tells you about a product that will help you rewind lines and wrinkles. And it’s completely painless!
Beauty and Fashion Tech looks at Five Great Uses for Creme de la Mer and tells you how it can actually be a good value.
Girl Gloss tries out lip balm made with beer!
How’s your summer skin doing? Cybelesays suggests one that is made just for this seasons hot temps.
makeup loves me reveals the details of what promises to be fall’s most talked about (sought after) limited edition product!
The girls over at Beauty in Real Life are loving Avon’s new collection with Jillian Dempsey. Check out the collection here.
Karen from Makeup and Beauty Blog gives you swatches and product shots of the entire Cult of Cherry collection, the newest release from MAC Cosmetics.
Kyle at Face Candy suggests 2 new face oils to try.
Product Girl is having a giveaway and you can enter to win Essie’s 6-piece fall collection. Good luck!
Find out what Beauty Blogging Junkie is using to hydrate her chlorine-ravaged locks here.
Popularity: 8% [?]
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Dimitri James Skinn Cosmetics Lipstick and Gloss
Skinn cosmetics makes a couple of really nice lip items. The High Brilliance Lipstick is great stuff, especially considering the $14 price tag. The lipstick is creamy, long lasting and generally moisturizing. It also has anti-aging ingredients for a bit of double duty action.
Skinn also offers some nifty 3 piece and 6 peice sets.
Popularity: 6% [?]
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Beer Balm! Beer in a Lip Balm
My recent astonishment at the existence of a lip balm branded by favorite brewing company made me curious. Are there any lip balms that are actually made with beer?
Well, off to the land of Google and Dogpile searches I went, and sure enough, there is such an amazing thing!
It turns out that one of my favorite homebrew companies (even though I don’t currently brew), Williams Brewing, carries the Old Chub Stick–a balm that is made with beer–Scottish Ale to be exact. A bit more searching credits the manufacture of the balm to the Oskar Blues Brewpub in Colorado. Here is the ingredient list:
Active (drug) ingredients: Octyl Methoxycinnamate (7%), and Oxybenzone (4%). Both are added as sunscreens.
Inactive Ingredients: Sweet Almond Oil, Macadamia Nut Oil, Beeswax, Cocoa Butter, Coconut Oil, Chocolate, Cocoa Extract, Shea Butter, Old Chub Scottish Style Ale, Malted Barley, Hops, Vitamin E, Natural Flavoring, and Rosemary Extract.
I purchased one and it really is a pretty tasty balm with a nice feel. The flavor is unique, although not particularly that of beer. It has a bit of a chocolate taste, I imagine from the cocoa extract. But the beer and malted barely does give it an interesting and quite good flavor. I recommend it not just because it is a neat novelty item, but because it is a good balm all around!
Next, I found that My Lip Stuff (read previous review), home of 400 (yes 400) lip balm flavors not surprisingly also has one– but not all the time. The My Lip Stuff Limited Edition New Years Beer Balm was still available when I ordered it. The balm is not actually made with beer as far as I can tell. In all honesty it didn’t taste a thing like beer either. Instead, it just plain tasted odd and I actually didn’t care for it, although I do like other flavors from the My Lip Stuff company.
Also of interest, although not exactly made with beer, the Schlafly Hopstick from another of my favorite brewers, Schlafly, is made with hop oil. I was recently at the Schlafly Tap Room and unfortunately was told that they have at least temporarily quite making the balm. So I couldn’t try any. Here’s hoping (hopping?) that they get it back in stock again!
Photo courtesy of Mike Wagner.
Popularity: 6% [?]
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Review: L’Oreal Bare Naturale Lip Conditioner
When I purchased a tube of L’Oreal Bare Naturale Lip Conditioner, I expected to love it. I normally like L’Oreal’s lip products, and what is not to love about a lip conditioner? But apparently not all things are a loveable as they would seem.
The Bare Natural Lip conditioner that I tried was too thick and a bit sticky! At first I thought it was perhaps because of high pigment, which will make me a little more forgiving of a thicker product and stickiness, but then I found that the pigment didn’t show all that much either. L’Oreal advertises this as light weight, but I found it to be heavier than any other lip item that I have used in the last several years.
It did have OK shine, and is advertised as 96% “natural origin” (whatever that means), for those who are interested in its other features. It is packaged in a rather small click up tube.
If you are headed out for drugstore lip products I suggest skipping this one. But do consider trying L’Oreal’s HiP Jelly Balm instead (read review). Now that is lovely stuff!
Popularity: 10% [?]
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Mark Hookups: Glow Baby Glow and Mini Mark it Stick
Mark Cosmetics (a division of Avon) have a fun line of items called hookups. These are cosmetics that hook together into pairs for easy carrying. I gave a couple of lip items a try.
Glow Baby Glo is a lovely, non-sticky, sheer, gloss. It comes in a variety of shades and has a faintly mint smell and taste. Nice stuff, especially for the price of $5!
I “hooked” my gloss to a Mini Mark it Stick, which is basically a fat, soft lip pencil/crayon. Like many of the lip crayons, this can be used for full color and it does a nice job of providing sheer tint to the entire lip area. I found the berry shade to be quite nice for everyday use.
Hooked together, they area a perfect pair! I color my lips with the pencil and then add a touch of gloss. And it all fits neatly into a small clutch! I love it!
Popularity: 9% [?]
