I’ve written before about Juice Organics products I’ve tried. I bought this lip balm around the time I first started buying Juice Organics products back in the winter. I really didn’t care for it then, but I thought maybe I should try it in the summer as well. So I’ve been trying it out lately too.
Juice Organics is a very nice company — it is the bargain-product-line to Juice Beauty. Everything made by Juice Organics is made from certified organic ingredients, 100% vegetarian, made from five juices, has no harsh paraben preservatives, synthetic fragrances, petroleum derivatives, artificial dyes, harsh sulfates, phthalates, or toluene. Juice Beauty is also a supporter of the Compact for Global Production of Safer Health and Beauty Products and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics — i.e., it never uses chemicals that are strongly suspected of causing cancer.
So yeah, Juice Organics is a very nice brand. The only real issue I can see with it is, why in the world isn’t it vegan? And I’ve looked at a lot of its products — what nonvegan but vegetarian ingredients does it use? I can’t figure it out.
Juice Organics Lip Amplifier
Nourish your lips with safe, healthy organic ingredients. You’ll love the way your lips look and feel. Achieve sumptuous, smooth lips immediately, with a blend of lip amplifying peptides, refining cane sugar, certified organic citrus juice and nourishing essential fatty acids.
• Increase lip volume up to 40%
• Immediate plumping technology
• Glossy finish
So — while I like the packaging of Juice Organics Lip Amplifier a lot — the squeeze tube with the slanted tip applicator is my favorite lip gloss packaging! — this lip balm just does not work for me. It’s far too light — when I was using it in the winter my lips became chapped. I need something with more moisturizing capability. Even now I’ve been using it in the summer when chapped lips aren’t as much of an issue for me, and it’s better than nothing, but it’s just not as good as a more moisturizing lip balm would be. Also, I haven’t noticed any lip amplifying whatsoever, and it has no UVA-protecting ingredients. So I’m taking off three stars because of those problems.
It does have some good features — while I found the smell a little strange at first — it smells kind of like sour oranges — it grew on me, and now I kind of like it. It also has a great texture — it’s nice and slightly shiny without being too viscous or over-the-top shiny or sticky, and it doesn’t tend to run off the corners of my mouth if I apply too much.
Juice Organics lip balm is cruelty-free, organic, but not vegan (but it is 100% vegetarian).
Juice Organics lip balm is available at the Juice Organics online store for $9.99.
Juice Organics Lip Amplifier Ingredients:
Organic juices of citrus aurantium dulcis (orange) juice & aloe barbadensis leaf juice, organic simmondsia chinensis (jojoba) seed oil, glycerin, organic honey, organic essential fatty acids of linum usitatissimum (linseed) seed & borago officinali (borage) seed, tocopheryl acetate & tocopherol (vitamin E), ascorbyl palmitate (vitamin C), caprylic/capric triglyceride, ethylhexyl (octyl) palmitate, tribehenin, sorbitan isostearate, palmitoyl oligopeptide, glyceryl stearate, sorbitan stearate, phospholipids, organic saccharum officinarum (glycolic acid), palmitic acid, stearic acid, cetearyl glucoside, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate, benzyl alcohol, phenoxyethanol, limonene, linalool, citrus aurantium (sweet orange) pure essential oil.
