Yummy it's mango lips! (The Body Shop Mango Lip Butter)

Member Name: SusanLesley

Product:	The Body Shop Mango Lip Butter
Date:	12/06/09 (117 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Works well, tastes nice.

Disadvantages: Maybe a little bit expensive

When I was in town the other day I went into our local branch of The Body Shop and was tempted by the lip butters. I do love this particular product and felt like treating myself so I bought the Mango 'flavour' for £4.85.

We live on the Great Orme at Llandudno so we have a sea breeze a lot of the time which ranges from a light waft to a howling gale! This makes my lips very dry and if there's one thing I can't stand it is my lips feeling dry - it really irritates me. Consequently I usually have a range of balms and butters around the house in various tubes and pots.

Anyway back to my recent purchase of Body Shop Mango Lip Butter.

The Lip Butters all look like miniature versions of the Body Shop Body Butters but made for the lips. The pots of lip butter are just 10ml compared to the 200ml body butters but the pots are the same design as the body butters.

They come in a variety of flavours - pink grapefruit, papaya, Brazil nut, Shea, coconut, almond, passion fruit and mango. The colours of the pots correspond to the flavours - mango is gold, pink grapefruit is pink etc. - with stickers on the top of each one to inform you which variety it is.

The main ingredients of Mango Lip Butter are beeswax to 'keep the lips lush' and Shea Butter which is a natural moisturiser that helps to condition the lips sealing in the moisture.

The Body Shop operates a Community Trade policy which basically means 'A fair price for a fantastic ingredient or product, from a disadvantaged or small scale supplier'.

For example the Shea Butter comes from Tungteiya, which represents about 400 women in Northern Ghana where many families rely on subsistence farming.

To use the lip butter you just get a small amount on the end of your finger and rub it onto your lips. It is easily absorbed and isn't too greasy and it makes my lips feel really moisturised and soft. It also tastes nice which is a double edged sword for me as, if these things taste nice I keep licking my lips and they don't last as long!

I use this product last thing at night for the simple reason that it is easier to carry the lipstick type ones in my bag during the day and they are less messy to use - I don't have to wipe my fingers as I do with the Body Shop Lip Butter.

I find it easier to keep this one on my bedside table and use it each night before I go to sleep. That way my lips are comfortable as I go to sleep and the butter can do its good work during the night!

The other advantage of using it at night is that, since I am asleep, I don't lick it off! It tastes so nice that I do tend to keep licking my lips when I use this product.

So there you are, a lovely product that works well and although it is a bit more expensive that some it is still cheap enough for me to treat myself occasionally.

Summary: A great treat