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Kiss My Face Organic Lip Balm

By Carleenp · Comments (2)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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.

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About the Author: Carleen Coulter

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Categories : Balm, Natural/Organic

Tags : Balm, Flavored, Gloss, Kiss My Face, Natural, Organic

Dimitri James Skinn Cosmetics Lipstick and Gloss

By Carleenp · Comments (2)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

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.

The Wet Shine Lip Gloss is also lovely. This tube gloss has a pretty good color payoff—more than the standard tube type usually has. Yet despite the extra pigment, it is low on the stickiness factor. It has Vitamin E, Soy, and aloe for conditioning agents. This one is another good value at $12.50.

Skinn also offers some nifty 3 piece and 6 peice sets.

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Categories : Color, Gloss, Lipstick, Moisturizing Lipstick

Tags : Gloss, Lipstick, Skinn

Beer Balm! Beer in a Lip Balm

By Carleenp · Comments (8)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

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.

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