Bondi Sands Lip Balm with Vitamin E

 

 

Texture: Smooth and buttery

Flavour: Toasted Coconut

Finish: Clear

Lasting power: Around three hours

Colour: Clear

Longevity: 12 months

Size: 15g, 0.52oz.

Price: $5.95

Availability: Bondi Sands website, Priceline and chemists.

Website: Bondi Sands

Rating: 5

If you like this, try: La Roche_Posay Cicalfate balm, Crazy Rumors, Dermal Therapy.

Ingredients: ricinus communis seed oil, octyldodecanol, syntehitc beeswax, hydrogenated polydecene, cera microcristallina, cocoglycerides, butylene glycol, cetyl palmitate, butyrospermum parkii butter, simmondsia chinensis seed oil, aroma, peg-30 dipolhydroxystearate, triacontanyl pvp, tocopheryl acetate, saccarin, anisyl alcohol.

We go through a lot of lip balm in my house. Between Chai and I we're constantly applying balm. Chai gets dryness around his mouth so is constantly slathering cream on and around his lips. Because he's putting it around his mouth he prefers clear creams that sink in quickly and aren't glossy. Bondi Sands is his latest obsession. He loves it so much that he has three tubes on the go. You know a balm is good when Chai has them all over the place. 

I too love this balm. It's smooth, buttery and super hydrating. The toasted coconut flavour is gorgeous.

Alaffia Everyday Coconut Purely Coconut Lip Balm

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Texture: Smooth and creamy

Flavour: Awful

Fragrance: Coconut

Finish: Slightly glossy

Lasting power: A few hours

Colour: Clear


Size:  0.15oz 4.25g

Price: $3.06

Availability: Alaffia and iHerb

Website: alaffia.com.au


Rating: 1

If you like this, try: Crazy Rumors, their flavours are so much better.

Ingredients: coconut oil, candelilla wax, cocoa butter, natural coconut flavour.

I threw this balm in the bin. That's not something I do very often, usually my unloved balms go to the boys, but this one tastes so bad that it went straight into the bin. I have no idea why it tastes so bad, it's not off, it smells good and the ingredients look fine. Perhaps I got a bad one. 

It's a shame the flavour is so awful because the balm is nice. It's soft, creamy, hydrating and feels lovely on my lips.

Coco Kind Original Lip Balm

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Texture: Creamy and smooth.

Flavour: Coconut.

Fragrance: Coconut.

Finish: Soft shine.

Lasting power: Three hours.

Colour: Clear.

Longevity: Not stated.

Size: 0.15oz/4.25ml.

Price: Around $4.

Availability: I purchased mine from iHerb, I've seen it at health shops and you can purchase from the Coco Kind website.

Website: www.cocokind.com


Discontinued: No.

Limited Edition: No.

Rating: 1


Ingredients: Organic fair trade certified virgin coconut oil, organic yellow beeswax.

I really wanted to love this balm but I can't. It's so soft that it's unusable. The texture is what you'd expect for a balm that comes in a pot, not one that comes in a tube. Even in winter it's too soft to use, I end up with a thick layer of balm smeared over my lips which I have to wipe off, wasting the excess. The flavour and fragrance are beautiful as you'd expect from a coconut oil lip balm, it's just a shame about the texture. I end up applying it with my finger which is rather annoying.