It's crusty dusty lip season. Which means I need a great lip balm. I have big lips and having big dry lips isn't it. So I always keep the lip balm on deck. Well, I keep one and then have a backup. Because I always misplace one so I need to know where that second one is- just in case I need it.
L'occitane claims:
Moisturize and nourish lips with this rich balm.
Give dry lips a moisture-boost with this nourishing balm. Infused with Shea Butter, twist up for softer and more moisturize lips wherever you go.
Made in France
I had this in my Amazon shopping cart for a minute but every time I ordered from Amazon I would take it out my cart because I met my shipping minimum. Or I just didn't need a new lip balm. I try not to buy too many backups of most things- except soaps. Soap I stockpile...but I go through them pretty quickly.
But back to the lip balm. I bought this in the duty free shop in the airport before I went on vacation a couple months back. I don't remember exactly how much I paid for it....couldn't have been more than six euro though.
We will start with the scent- the packaging and the scent reminds me of lip balms I used to buy from Nivea back in the day. I was actually surprised by the scent- I kinda thought it would be unscented but it smells pretty nice. It's just a nice inoffensive scent. I like it. It's not strong though so it's not going to smell beyond when you apply it.
Otherwise it's nice and smoothing. Doesn't dry out my lips. Feels nice and hydrating on. Most of the time it's moisturizing enough that I don't feel I have to re-apply it. So I don't feel "dependent" on it or like it dries my lips out.
It can feel on the thicker side- I like that. I feel like it's really hydrating and protecting my lips. Which is great in cold weather...or even dry heat.
After looking at the ingredients I can almost see why it reminds me of the Nivea balms. It does have Shea Butter really high up though and my favorite ingredient in a lip balm which is wax- beeswax/candellia. I do think there are cleaner ingredient lips balms and I can't say I'm a fan of the hydrogenated oils.
Ingredients:
OCTYLDODECANOL - BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII (SHEA) BUTTER - C10-18 TRIGLYCERIDES - EUPHORBIA CERIFERA CERA/EUPHORBIA CERIFERA (CANDELILLA) WAX - HYDROGENATED COCO-GLYCERIDES - HYDROGENATED CASTOR OIL - CERA ALBA/BEESWAX - C18-36 ACID GLYCOL ESTER - C18-36 ACID TRIGLYCERIDE - RICINUS COMMUNIS (CASTOR) SEED OIL - SIMMONDSIA CHINENSIS (JOJOBA) SEED OIL - SUCROSE TETRASTEARATE TRIACETATE - TOCOPHERYL ACETATE - PARFUM/FRAGRANCE - BENZYL BENZOATE - ALPHA-ISOMETHYL IONONE .
Overall, I like it. I'm not mad I bought it and if I were traveling and needed a lip balm- I would pick this one up again in the airport.
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