Peppermint Pouty Lip Balm

Description

Peppermint Pouty Lip Balm

Peppermint Pouty is actually be one of our very first lip balm flavour.  Anyhow, this was one of my first successful attempts at a flavoured lip balm.  You see, Back in 2010, I forced these lip balms on our guests at our Christmas party and back then called it “candy cane.”  The presentation wasn’t executed all that well on my part as I eagerly presented a mug full of unlabelled tubes, filled with an off-yellow, waxy substance. Once people realized that I wasn’t joking and gave them a try, I won them over…although people went on and on about how I need to label, colour, package them for a better first impression.

Note: Not too many people ate them thinking they were off-coloured peppermint sticks (really only the kids did that).

Lowen’s Lip Balm Lore

The story behind all of Lowen’s Lip Balms can be found in a failed experiment.  In the early days when I was trying to create a natural, incredible effective and locally sourced diaper balm for our daughter Lowen, I accidentally came up with the lip balm formula.

You see, after a boat load of experimentation and failed formulations, I finally thought I had created an amazing diaper balm!

Not so…when my wife applied it to her hand and placed it under the tap, it didn’t do a great job repelling the water.  It actually “took on” water, which isn’t desirable when you are trying to protect baby’s bottom from dirty diaper nastiness.

Anyhow, I felt pretty defeated and my better half recognized this.  Later that same night after finishing up a late feeding with Lowen, my wife’s lips were really bothering her. Being half-asleep and not wanting to search in the dark for “lip chap,”  she decided to repurpose my failed formula, that happened to be sitting by the change table, as a lip balm.

In the morning, I learned that, by accident, I had created “the most amazing lip balms she’s tried!”  Once I finally perfected our Butter Balm, I revisited this formula and, as mentioned above,  flavoured it with some peppermint oil to make “Candy Cane” lip balms for our holiday open house.  They turned out to be very popular and from that point on our expanding line of naturally flavoured lip balms was born!

One last feather in our cap- all of Lowen’s incredible Lip Balms are EWG Verified™, meaning that our lip balms are “adequately preserved and free of contaminants, and that manufacturing processes meet EWG’s rigorous criteria.”

Net wt. 4.25 grams

As always: Cruelty Free (we only test on willing humans)