The Bite:
Use eco lip balm on your next prairie rustle. While conventional balms are made with petroleum (yep, that petroleum), plant-based options are now widely available and will rescue your parched pucker lickety-split. Now ride.
Lips feel like worn leather?
02.26.2009
Submitted by tmeronek on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 12:00am.
The Benefits:
- Being healthy as a horse. Researchers have linked impurities in petrolatum (a common ingredient in many lip balms) to breast cancer; hence, the EU's restrictions on its use.
- Spur-ning oil. Once the world's petroleum reserves are gone, they're gone.
Personally Speaking:
A few of us claim that we're addicted to lip balm, but we looked into it and it’s just psychological - your lips won't build up a physical dependence (well, as long as you avoid those heroin-flavored versions).
Wanna Try:
- Miessence Jaffa Lip Balm - organic shea butter and safflower and avocado oils moisturize in a big way ($6/0.12 ounce).
- Burt’s Bees Lip Shimmer - sparkly colors (11 of ’em, to be exact) and a minty taste make this longstanding beeswax-based staple even better ($5/0.0975 ounce).
- Eco Lips SPF 30 Sport Lip Balm - if you wanna avoid the white lips that natural titanium dioxide balms give you, here's the best option we've found for the outdoors - does contain not-so-natural sunscreens ($3/0.15 ounce).
Cocktail Fact
Devious Nixonites hid microphones in ChapStick tubes during the Watergate scandal of the 1970s.
Bang For The Bite
If 10,000 Biters opt for a lip balm made of veggie oils instead of petrolatum, we’ll avert the weight of 15 cowboys in petroleum-based products.
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