This product keeps your lips from getting dry, and smells just like what it is made of - beeswax and honey (along with: sunflower seed oil, cocoanut oil, lanolin, flavour, honey, rosemary leaf extract, soybean oil, canola oil, benzyl benzoate, and coumarin).
The only ingredient on that worried me was "benzyl benzoate"...what on earth is that? I did a bit of online research, and I stumbled across a blog similar to mine (but with in-depth info on ingredients) called Dying to Look Good. The blogger, a doctor, explains that while the natural version of benzyl benzoate is generally safe, the synthetic version can be dangerous. Burt's Bees products are certified 100% natural, so I would deduce that this is the safe version.
Burt's Bees honey lip balm is listed at $4.49 CAD on their website - I recommend it, decent price and great product!
The Burt's Bees line is widely sold in grocery stores, and other locations across Canada.
*Product appears to be gluten-free.
Burt's Bee's has sold out to, is it Colgate?, so I feel their products are now suspect. This ingredient, benzyl benzoate, also concerns me, as now the company is all about the bottom dollar...
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