Burt's Bees pink grapefruit is my favorite lip balm, with Mango flavor being my second favorite. Before I settled on Burt Bees lip balms, I tried a large variety of lip balms keeping notes on what I liked and did not like about them.
In this review I am including a comparison of 5 lip balms as I experienced significant difference in satisfaction with them, and I thought a comparison between them might be useful to others.
For many years I used the original Chapstick, which provides a very good moisturizer, it spreads well and provides long lasting effects. Its flavor however is pretty boring and led me to seek out alternatives. Blistex raspberry lemonade has a strong but nice flavor. When you just put it on it taste like a burst of lemon and raspberry almost like licking a candy. This strong flavor does not linger however, it mellows out pretty quickly. I liked the flavor, but found that the moisturizing effect on my lips did not last as long as some of the other balms. It also has many more chemical ingredients than the other lip balms. Mentholatum Natural Ice had a flavor that I really did not like, it was hard to spread, and the moisturizing effect did not last. Then I tried Burt Bees Mango Butter and it combined everything I was looking for - taste and longevity.
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Burt's Bees Pink Grapefruit
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Sunblock: None
Taste:.................Grapefruit, slight sour and slightly sweet
Effect:................Long lasting
Stick:.................Fairly soft and easy to spread
Cost:..................2.98 per stick, sometimes on sale at 2.00
Ingredients:...........Ingredients: helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, cera alba (beeswax, cire d'abeille), aroma (flavor)*, ricinus communis (castor) seed oil, lanolin, citrus paradisi (grapefruit) seed oil, rosmarinus officinalis • (rosemary) leaf extract, tocopherol, ammonium glycyrrhizate, canola oil (nuile de colza), glycine soja (soybean) oil, limonene natural flavor
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Burt's Bees Mango Butter Burt's Bees Nourising Lip Balm
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Sunblock: None
Taste:.................Mango, light and very pleasant
Effect:................Long lasting
Stick:.................Fairly soft and easy to spread
Cost:..................2.25 per stick
Ingredients:...........helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, cera alba (beeswax, cire d'abeille), aroma (flavor)*, ricinus communis (castor) seed oil, mangifera indica (mango) seed butter, lanolin, ammonium glycyrrhizinate, tocopherol, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, glycine soja (soybean) oil, canola oil (huile de colza), limonene, linalool. *natural flavor
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ChapStick, Original ChapStick, Original
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Taste:.................Light almost not noticable
Effect:................Long lasting
Stick:.................Fairly soft and easy to spread
Sunblock:..............None
Cost:..................1.40 per stick
Ingredients:...........Active Ingredients: Padimate (1.5%), White Petrolatum (44%). Inactive Ingredients: Arachidyl Propionate, Camphor, Cetyl Alcohol, D&c Red No. 6 Barium Lake, Fd&c Yellow No. 5 Aluminum Lake, Fragrance, Isopropyl Lanolate, Isopropyl Myristate, Lanolin, Light Mineral Oil, Methylparaben, Octyldodecanol, Oleyl Alcohol, Phenyl Methicone, Propylparaben, Titanium Dioxide, Waxes.
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Blistex raspberry lemonade Blistex Raspberry Lemonade Blast
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Taste:.................Strong raspberry lemon, burst of nice flavor, almost like candy for a second
Effect:................Not long lasting
Stick:.................Fairly soft and easy to spread
Sunblock:..............SPF 15
Cost:..................1.21 per stick
Ingredients:...........Active ingredient: dimethicone 1%, octinoxate 7,5%, oxybenzone 2.5% Inactive ingredients: alumina, beeswas, diethylhexyl adipate, ethylhexyl palmitate, ethylhexyl stearate, flavors, glyceryl stearate, hydrogenated coconut oil, isopropyl myristate,
isopropyl palmitate, isopropyl stearate, jojoba esters, microcrystalline wax, myristyl myristate, phenoxyethanol, phenyl trimethicone, polyethylene, polyhydrixystearic acid, saccharin, silica, tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, titanium dioxide, tocopheryl acetate.
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Mentholatum Natural Ice Medicated Lip Protectant SPF 15 Mentholatum Natural Ice Medicated Lip Protectant
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Taste:.................Medicinal and Minty
Effect:................Not long lasting
Stick:.................Hard and hard to spread
Sunblock:..............SPF 15
Cost:..................1.17 per stick (note when I bought it on sale for 60 cents per stick)
Ingredients:...........Active Ingredients: Dimethicone (1%), Octinoxate (7.5%), Octisalate (5%). Inactive Ingredients:..Fragrance, Lanolin, Menthol, Mineral Oil, Ozokerite, Petrolatum.
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Burt's Bees Grapefruit lip balms is my winner. It is all natural, great flavor, and it works well as a long lasting lip moisturizer. With Burt's Bees Mango a close runner up.
You can find it on Amazon by following this link.
Ali Julia review ★★★★★
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