Organic Mint Lip Balm

Description

A minty fresh lip balm that tastes good enough to eat and is gentle and nourishing on your lips.  Shea butter is blended with cocoa butter to form the base ingredients of this luxurious lip balm and delicate blend gives the lip balm a texture that is soft enough to apply to the lips yet firm enough to ensure you don’t use more than you need per application. Giving your lips that beautiful softness, keeping them moisturised and prevent them from drying out, whilst giving them the protection from the varying weather conditions, this lip balm is an essential must have to keep on you at all times.

Shea butter is the fat that is extracted from the nut from the shea (Karite) tree, mainly grown in West Africa is the go to treatment there for skin conditions such as eczema, scarring sunburn, itching, insect bites & skin blemishes.   With its creamy texture it is a delight to apply to the skin. Scientific investigations have found that shea nut butter does not pose any known or likely allergy risk to consumers, including those with peanut or tree nut allergies.   We use organic and fair trade shea butter which contains naturally occurring vitamins A, E & F, helping to maintain optimum skin health. Improving elasticity and abundant in fatty acids that help with collagen production, to help maintain youthful skin and with its mild SPF (thought to range from 4-6 SPF, naturally),  anti-inflammatory properties and ability to reduce skin irritation shea butter is a true skin healer.  Shea butter not only works on the surface of the skin, creating a protective barrier but it also penetrates deeply into the dermal layers of the skin to heal within.

Cocoa butter is a solid-at-room-temperature butter, that is extracted from the cacao bean, which grows on the cacao tree. The cacao pod is a large, gourd-shaped fruit; inside the pod are 30 to 40 cocoa seeds. These seeds are dried, roasted, and pressed and the fat is then extracted from the beans giving us this beautiful cocoa butter. That fat is what we know as cocoa ‘butter’. What is left over from this process is ground down to become cacao powder. We’ve chosen to use cocoa butter in our lip balms as a key ingredient due to its ability to hydrate and nourish the skin and improve elasticity. The fat in cocoa butter forms a protective barrier over skin to hold in moisture. Anti-oxidant rich, free radical fighting & anti-aging vitamin E, cocoa butter is rich in natural plant compounds called phytochemicals. These substances may improve blood flow to the skin and slow skin aging by protecting against damage from the sun’s harmful UV rays.

To complete this beautiful lip balm we add drops of organic peppermint essential oil to give the mint chocolate good-enough-to-eat aroma.  This is a firm favourite of ours.