EOS Lip Balm Is Hot

It seems like every year there is a new product that every tween and teen MUST HAVE! So when my teen approached me the other day to ask for the latest, coolest thing that every girl in school has to have, I tried not to groan. I must not have tried very hard because one escaped anyway. This latest craze is the new eos Lip Balm by Evolution of Smooth.

The eos Lip Balm comes in a round, plastic container that twists off to reveal the actual lip balm in the same round shape as the container. Cool! It comes in many different flavors including Blueberry Acai, Sweet Mint, Strawberry Sorbet and Pomegranate Raspberry. Yummy! It’s also 100% natural and 95% organic (not sure which ingredient isn’t organic), paraben and petrolatum free. Bonus! At $3.29, this lip balm wouldn’t break the bank so I went ahead and bought the Pomegranate Raspberry flavor because it was a cute color and I thought the flavor sounded great. Good marketing!

What can I say; I’m a sucker for cool products! As I am writing this post, I have twisted the top off and smelled the lip balm at least a half a dozen times. These people have totally sucked me in, they are ingenious! I put it on my teen’s bed and waited to hear her excitement. I didn’t have to wait long. My teen was so excited she could barely contain herself.

That is, until she looked at the ingredients. “Is Shea Butter okay for me?” Drats! In all my excitement, I forgot to look at the ingredients closely. I knew Shea Butter was probably one of those ingredients on her NO-NO list but I was having a hard time remembering whether it was a dairy, egg or nut product. Shea Butter is a fatty substance derived from the Shea Tree. FAAN and the FDA classify Shea as a tree nut even though there have been no documented allergic reactions to it. It is in the same family as coconut oil and cocoa butter.

With this in mind, we are going to have her try it on her skin for a couple of days and see if she gets a reaction. If everything appears okay, I will have her test a small amount on her lips, while she is at home, so I can watch her. Hopefully, she will be able to share in the same excitement her friends have with this latest fad. If not, my teen has talked about creating her own lip balm. Maybe she’ll start her own fad!