Scent Review: Your Lips But Better Lipbalms.

Mint Lemonade: I love love love this. I don’t care if people said this might smell like a bit like lemon detergent but I LOVE IT! It’s a really refreshing minty, lemony scent. Lemon and mint blend so well together! I just can’t stop sniffing my fragrance balm and the sample soap!

Fruit Salad: This is a very fresh, very real fruit salad scent. If I close my eyes, I would think it’s a real bowl of fruit in front of me rather than a lipbalm! I think my brain isn’t working but I can’t identify the fruit I smelling most. I think it’s honeydew? Or some sort of melon? It’s very sweet and I think it’s starting to grow on me.

Raspberry Mocha: Unlike Toffee Nut Mocha where the Toffee and Mocha was pretty obvious right off the bat. The raspberry comes through stronger here. It’s a very sweet jelly-like raspberry which makes me think of raspberry jam and tarts. This combination of raspberry and mocha doesn’t work much for me, I would prefer a Raspberry single

Toffee Nut Mocha: The toffee is absolutely yummy in here! It’s so buttery and rich that I am so disappointed that this lipbalm has no taste! But hey! on the bright side, if it tastes exactly like it smells, I am going to put on 382093818 kgs! The mocha was no weakling either. The caffeine scent is exactly like a Starbucks cuppa but truly the start of this little lipbalm was the toffee!

Green Apple: Realistic to the core (ha ha). Just yummylicious tart green apple! I really can’t say more!

Cookies & Cream: This is by far my least favourite scent of the bunch. I really don’t get cookies and cream but this really playdoh type scent. I tried to give this a chance by letting the scent cure for awhile before doing this review but nope, no go.

This Will Make Your Lips But Better!

Your Lips But Better is a one-woman lipbalm factory run by my friend Jen and assisted by her adorable Miss Gigi. I met Jen as part of the Vox mineral makeup community. One day she decided that instead of buying balms, why not make her own instead and Your Lips But Better was born. All of Jen’s balms, lotion and fragrance sticks are individually hand poured and made in small batches to ensure freshness and quality.

I received my Your Lips But Better package while I was in Macau. When I arrived home from the airport, as tired as I was, I immediately tore into the package. Jen packaged everything prettily and included some business cards as well. I love the look of her cards. It portrays a really fun, professional and clean image.

The package smelled amazing because of the Mint Lemonade soap freebie that Jen included in my package. It was a really huge soap too. If you look closer, the design of it is a bee on a honeycomb. So adorable. It’s sitting on my desk right now and I honestly cannot stop smelling the soap. Luckily I bought a fragrance balm in the same scent and I can bring it along with me to sniff or refresh myself. More about the fragrance balm later…

I got a fragrance balm in Mint Lemonade (the only flavour offered at the moment) and 4 lipbalms in Green Apple, Raspberry Mocha, Toffee Nut Mocha and Cookies & Cream. Jen included another freebie lipbalm in Fruit Salad. Have I said how much I love the freebies? Two full size items! Now that’s what I call generous!

Each balm smells delicioussss! I can definitely smell the mocha in the coffee balms and there’s this really fresh fruity smell from Fruit Salad. All the scents are spot on and very pure. They apply very nicely too. It has just enough to moisturise but it won’t turn your lips into an oil slick. I will do more detailed reviews of the lipbalm and their scents in an upcoming post!

Jen also shrinks wrap every lipbalm individually and the shrink wrap is designed to be torn off only at the cap so the rest of the balm is still protected by the plastic. I really do appreciate the gesture but it’s quite difficult to remove them initially although it tears pretty cleanly afterwards.

If I run out of lipbalms, I am definitely going to get more from Jen! Her international shipping charges are reasonable, her products are excellent, she includes gifts and is thoughtful in her entire formulation and production process. What more can you ask for?