*Butter Me Up And Pucker up - MAN APPROVED!* (The Body Shop Lip Butter)

Member Name: angiebabyqueen

Product:	The Body Shop Lip Butter
Date:	24/06/08 (180 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Feels soft, strong and perfect, My partner kisses me more with this lip butter

Disadvantages: The cost compared to other lip balms and lip salves and slightly greasy

I don't know about you, but I adore the smell of passion fruit toiletries - it always gives me a craving to go and eat something sweet and fruity.
Being a huge fan of the body shop, its products, its values and morals, I am a woman with the love your body discount card (women and store cards hey?) In December, I treated myself to this lip butter among other gorgeous products, and so far haven't regretted it.

*The Body Shop*

The Body Shop was voted the most ethical shop by consumers last year, and who can blame them? Using the Body Shop products not only helps you feel good about yourself, but makes you as a consumer feel good about buying the products. They support community trade, and give farmers and the people who produce these products a fair wage. The Body shop are also against animal testing which makes you feel good that you aren't buying cosmetic products that have potentially been tested on an animal. Recently, the body shop has designed a re-useable bag with the profits made going to the Burma Cyclone victims. The Body Shop has so many morals that you can never feel guilty about buying their products.

*Passion fruit*
This lip butter contains many ingredients all for different reasons and for different scents:
*Passion fruit seed oil to moisturise the skin. Perfect to moisturise your lips on a winter's day or when you have a cold
*Melon seed oil helps to condition the skin. This part of the lip butter is the community trade, where the body shop pays a fair price to small rural communities providing the melon seed
*Shea Butter also provides moisturisation for skin. This also supports community trade, and the Body Shop have helped 10 different villages in northern Ghana, paying a fair price for the shea butter and these villages now have clean running water, schools and hospitals.
*Beeswax from North West Zambia has allowed farmers to maintain their traditional way of living.
All these key ingredients are there to gain a thick (almost solid) consistency that lip butter is at room temperature. When the passion fruit lip butter heats up however it melts and is soft and gooey and feels lovely to put onto your lips. This is because of the beeswax melting, and all the ingredients mixed with it also melt.

*How to use*
1) First, open the lid.
2) Then, with your (clean) finger gently dip and have a tiny amount on the finger.
3) After this, rub all over your lips and rub the lips together.
4) Your finger may be left slightly greasy after so grab a tissue or a wipe and just wipe off.
5) Return the lid tightly to prevent germs.
6) Repeat when necessary (usually every 2-3 hours feels good)

For people who have dry chapped lips, add a little extra lip butter on your finger and apply a thicker layer for your lips to soak in more moisture. Apply every 1-2 hours to help moisturise your lips and remove the dry, chapped feeling quicker.

*My experience*

Well, this tiny miracle pot has helped me through some stormy and saucy times. Since I bought this in December, I have only used half a pot, which I think is brilliant for value in the long term.

When I have had colds, or during the winter when the skin on my lips have ended up peeling they are so dry (and I forget to take this pot with me to work or college) I return home to apply a thick layer every 1-2 hours. Okay, I admit it feels slightly uneasy to have a thick layer, and a bit of a pain to apply every 1-2 hours, but I wake up the next morning with good as new lips, which aren't painful and feel so soft I feel like smiling all day. Compared to other lip balms, in which I have tried Nivea - I hate having to rub a hard stick of lip balm over my lips; it makes them feel ten times worse when they are sore and dry, Lipsalve same as the Nivea lip balms and Vaseline feels even more greasy and heavy on my lips, I think this lip balm scores a ten out of ten in my books for moisturising quickly and effectively.

As for the saucy times - well as I apply this about three times a day on my lips, they look shiny and radiant, and when I first apply it onto my lips, it looks as if I have a clear lip-gloss on for about 15minutes which is brilliant for meeting my other half. Also, the smell is divine and just wants to make me eat it, which is fine to lick because it doesn't taste of anything in particular (but it does ruin the shine on your lips after applying it) and tastes quite neutral compared to other lip balms and Lipsalves on the market. Vaseline always smelt and tasted of chemicals to me, and it isn't particularly good for kissing partners.

Partners when kissing don't want to have a foul taste in their mouth when they kiss you, and my partner kisses me more in fact when I have passion fruit lip butter on my lips. He says it tastes nice, and his lips gain moisture as well which is brilliant because when men have dry chapped lips, they generally don't like to apply lip balms to help make it better, and would rather not kiss for a few hours rather than help make the problem better with a lip balm. My partner thinks that applying lip balm out of a stick, or putting Vaseline on his lips is too 'feminine'. When I have had Vaseline and the Nivea lip balm on my lips before, he kissed me once and said he didn't like how my lips tasted - no kissing for a night out - what fun!

The only downside's are the price, but it has lasted me six months now but a Vaseline pot lasts the same amount of time I find and is around 99p, so compared to other lip salves, and lip balms, the cost is a little more. Another downside to the passion fruit lip butter is that they feel slightly greasy. I hate lip glosses for one reason only and that is because my lips feel as if they are stuck together for a while, and my hair loves to stick to my lips. However, I love the shine. With the passion fruit lip butter, my lips don't stick together, but they do feel slightly greasy and my hair once again loves to attach itself - it's like it thinks my lips are a placenta and my hairs an umbilical cord to my head.

Overall, I love this passion fruit lip butter, and I will continue to use it in the future because it is good value for money and lasts probably for a year, if you use it like I have in the past 6months. I have half a pot left now, and I usually use 3 times a day, everyday (apart from when I forget it). I love the fact that I don't feel guilty because the body shop are an ethical company, and it pays well to shop for these products either when on sale or if you have a love your body discount card. Also, it really helps my lips when they are feeling dry and chapped, and works miracles for my lips and makes me want to just kiss my partner again....and again....and again...because they feel so soft and like they are brand new. He loves it as well which is a bonus because it means even more kisses for me! 10/10

£5 for 10ml lasts for about a year

Recommended by COMPANY
www.bodyshop.co.uk

Angiebabyqueen copyright June 2008

Summary: Brilliant lip butter, ethically perfect and kisses galore