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Korres Love Your Lips Collection

The Korres Love Your Lips Collection is a collection of three pretty darn nice lip glosses and a pomegranate lip butter. Korres makes their lip glosses with cherry oil, which manages to moisturize, smooth, and taste good. In fact they taste REALLY good. I don’t really care for cherry flavor, but I loved these! The glosses give good shine and are not at all sticky.

The Pomegranate Lip Butter uses shea butter and rice wax for hydration. These natural products do not contain Parabens, Sulfates, or Phthalates.

Popularity: 6% [?]

Lavanila Healthy Lip Butter and Shine

Lavanila Laboratories specializes in various natural bath and body products, and their Lavanila Healthy Lip Butter is a huge new favorite of mine. This tube lip conditioner is all natural and contains a number of my favorite moisturizing ingredients. It applies just like a tube gloss and gives a bit of shine as well. Consider it a thicker (but not sticky) buttery gloss! It lasts for quite a while too and has SPF 15. Made with vanilla, it also has a nice scent and light taste. Here is what the company literature has to say about it:

The Healthy Lip Butter is packed full of powerful antioxidants, essential oils, and nourishing vitamins that help relieve and hydrate dry lips. Protect your lips from UV-damage with 100% Natural SPF 15 while four exotic butters moisturize and soften. Lavanila Healthy Lip Butters are 100% Natural and are formulated without petrochemicals, phthalates, synthetic dyes, sulfates, or chemical sunscreens. Available in Pure Vanilla, the fresh vanilla bean instantly soothes, making Lavanila’s Healthy Lip Butter the perfect winter indulgence!

LaVanila also makes a lovely Lip Shine , which is an all natural gloss. I gave the Vanilla Lavender flavor a try and found it to be light, glossy, and not at all sticky. It too has a nice light scent and taste–just enough to be pleasant without being overwhelming.

If you like tube products definitely try out Lavanila!

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Popularity: 10% [?]

Kiss My Face Organic Shimmers and Lip Shine Gloss

This may be a duplicate for some. Wordpress seems to have somehow eaten the first one!

Kiss My Face is one of my favorite natural; products companies. Awhile back, they sent me their collection of their matching Shimmers and Shines to try. All are quite lovely! I will also be holding a give away of this entire line next week, so keep an eye out for that!

Kiss My Face Sheer Organic Shimmers have a sheer color and come in a light vanilla mint flavor. They condition and moisturize lips with Beeswax, Coconut Oil, Shea Butter and Vitamin E. I like the very sheer color on these.

The Sheer Organic Shines are high gloss with excellent pigments and color payoff, yet no stickiness whatsoever! They feel great! Shown below from left to right in both sets of swatches are the shades: Pearl, Opal, Ruby, Topaz, Amethyst, and Garnet. The Shimmers on on top and the Shines are below.

Kiss My Face products are available at Whole Foods Stores and other natural product stores.

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Popularity: 15% [?]

Softlips Pure Pomegranate and Honeydew

Softlips has a new 100% natural and 95% organic lip balm, Softlips Pure. It is comes in two wonderful flavors: Pomegranate and Honeydew.

Softlips balms are thin balms that are rather light in consistency. That means that they do not feel heavy on the lips and a generally quite smooth. Light balms, however, don’t tend to last quite as long as the heavier and waxier balms, so there is a trade off. I tend to like heavy balms at night and outdoors and light balms during the day.

Here are the ingredients in Softlips Pure (starred items are organic):

cocos nucifera (coconut) oil*, olea europaea (olive) fruit oil*, beeswax*, simmondsia chinensis (jojoba) seed oil*, flavor, butyrospermum parkii (shea butter)*, punica granatum (pomegranate) extract*, tocopherol [vitamin E]

I like the addition of olive oil to the balm and sha butter is always a good choice. The balms feel quite nice and do a decent job of conditioning. Mostly though I love the new flavors. Pomegranate and melon are two of my favorites in lip products (my others being orange and grapefruit flavors). The scent/flavor is light—just enough to be enjoyable, without overwhelming.

Look for Softlips Pure at drugstores and big box retailers. Also watch here later this week for a contest to win a set of softlips balms!

Popularity: 12% [?]

NettieScrub Lip Balm

NettieScrub is a great body scrub that I reviewed some time back on Beauty and Fashion Tech (read review). Well, now there is a NettieScrub Lip Balm!

This is a nice, handmade, all natural, tin balm that feels great and smells good too. I tried the flavor cinnamon citron, which is an interesting mix of mango butter, cinnamon oil, and grapefruit oil. I really like the combination. The flavor and scent are fairly light, so it isn’t overwhelming. Made with beeswax and shea butter, the balm manages to be both nicely moisturizing and fairly long lasting. Plus the tin is darn cute!

Popularity: 10% [?]

Burt’s Bees 100% Natural Mini Lip Gloss Collection

Burt’s Bees sent me their Mini Lip Gloss Kit to try. These 100% Natural glosses are quite nice. The kit includes 4 shades of Burt’s Bees super shiny Lip Gloss, pictured below. From left to right: Zesty Red, Pucker Berry, Sweet Pink, and Nectar Nude.

The gloss is pretty well tinted and, although it looks a bit thick, it doesn’t feel that way. There is no stickiness whatsoever, and the glosses feel moisturizing and conditioning. There is a slight flavor to them that I can’t quite pin-point. It isn’t particularly strong and is not unpleasant. So those in the anti-flavor camp likely won’t mind this one much.

Look for Burt’s bees in drugstores, big box retailers, and stores such as ULTA Beauty.