Maybelline BabyLips Lip Balm- Cherry Lips
Growing up my Nan always
told me that wearing lipsticks or glosses make your lips wrinkly lool. Because
of this tale I have always been cautious with shop bought cosmetics, I mean who
wants wrinkly lips?
Anyway, usually I make my
own lip balms but last month I went out and forgot my homemade Shea butter, lavender
and honey beeswax lip balm so I decided to go and buy a new one.
I'd seen an advert for Maybelline
‘Baby lips lip balm’ and thought I’d give it a go.
I decided to go for the cherry lips shade as I am recently
trying lip colours, with today's new “Moisture rich” lip products I feel I am
safe from wrinkly lips…well safer than 10/20year ago!
Cherry lips smells nice, goes on very easily and feels quite nice on
but I did notice I was re-applying more often than my homemade lip balm.
It definitely didn’t last 8
hours on me but this may be as I am used to my homemade lip balm which is very
moisture rich and after all Maybelline and /or any cosmetics company want
customers to continue to buy their products so there is no way they’d make a
product you don’t have to buy or use that often, retail is retail and repeat
sales are vital.
Baby lips, lip balm is a
good idea and is much better than the standard lip balms on the market as it
contains moisturising ingredients such as Shea Butter.
As you’ll see below there
are a lot of other ingredients that I have no idea how to even pronounce let
alone understand and this is why I think I will stick to my homemade lip balms….I
know exactly what’s in them :-)
What Maybeline claims (from website)
"No
more basic lip balm.
Our
exclusive formula moisturises lips for a full 8 hours.
Lips are
renewed after 1 week* (*Based on panellist’s self-evaluations)
In 6 varieties
Why You'll Love It
It's clinical care for
baby-soft lips!
The secret: Exclusive lip
renew formula protects and moisturises for a full 8 hours
In 6 varieties
Visibly renewed lips in 1
week*
88% Had Smoother Lips*
82% Had Less Dry Lips*
70% Had More Supple Lips*
83% Had Better-Looking
Lips*
PRODUCT INGREDIENTS
OCTYLDODECANOL, POLYBUTENE,
PETROLATUM, ISOPROPYL MYRISTATE, POLYETHYLENE, OZOKERITE, DIISOSTEARYL MALATE, BUTYROSPERMUM
PARKII BUTTER / SHEA BUTTER, CANDELILLA CERA / CANDELILLA WAX / CIRE DE
CANDELILLA, VP/HEXADECENE COPOLYMER, ALUMINA, AROMA / FLAVOR, LIMONENE,
SYNTHETIC FLUORPHLOGOPITE, PENTAERYTHRITYL TETRA-DI-T-BUTYL
HYDROXYHYDROCINNAMATE, TOCOPHEROL, TOCOPHERYL ACETATE, CALCIUM ALUMINUM,
BOROSILICATE, BENZYL ALCOHOL, SILICA, MEL / HONEY / MIEL, CENTELLA ASIATICA
EXTRACT, LINALOOL, CITRAL, BENZYL BENZOATE, CALCIUM SODIUM BOROSILICATE,
POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE, TIN OXIDE, ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE, ACRYLATES COPOLYMER,
DIMETHICONE, PARFUM / FRAGRANCE [+/- MAY CONTAIN / PEUT CONTENIR, CI 77891 /
TITANIUM DIOXIDE, CI 45410 / RED 28 LAKE, CI 45380 / RED 22 LAKE, CI 77491, CI
77492, CI 77499 / IRON OXIDES, CI 15985 / YELLOW 6 LAKE, CI 15850 / RED 7, CI
19140 / YELLOW 5 LAKE, MICA, CI 42090 / BLUE 1 LAKE, CI 75470 / CARMINE]
That's a whole lot of ingredients for one little stick of balm???
I'd like to think that most cosmetics contain good ingredients but to be on the safe side I'd aim for products which are as natural as possible. Shoot use a stick of 100% pure organic Shea butter or cocoa butter if need be!
Check out this blog page on ingredients to avoid in a lip balm.
http://www.popsugar.com/beauty/Bad-Lip-Balm-Ingredients-6216447
@MsShayDivine
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