REVIEW: EOS lip balm

After seeing the YouTube and Blogging community rave and rave about this product, I knew I had to get my hands on it. However, doing so proved to be a little tricky as this product is mainly sold in the US. Despite this, good old Ebay gave me the power to try out the EOS lip balm.

This lip balm is a spherical lip balm coming in a variety of scents/flavours. It is enriched with Vitamin E, shea butter and jojoba oil making it ultra-moisturising on the lips, meaning lips are left soft, moist and amazingly smooth. Although, its really no surprise considering EOS itself stands for, ‘Evolutions of Smooth’.

a little 'dirty' due to applying over lipsticks.

The packaging of the EOS lip balm is what you could say, ‘qwirky’? The packaging is solid and in no means feels cheap. When un-screwing the lid you’re given hard balm, yet when applied to the lips, goes on smoothly. This, I love! I hate lip balm that chips and cracks or even worse, snaps, when it’s knocked or dropped. This lips balms’ actual product is so solid, and tightly enclosed in the sphere that there is no chance of this happening. I also love how the sphere has a flat bottom as this helps to easily store the balm upright without it constantly toppling over.

When applying, the balm goes on smoothly and easily without tugging on the lips. You can instantly feel the moisture in your lips and that feeling remains for a really long time. I found myself constantly applying this product whilst in the office at work. This however, was because the lip balm smells so delicious and feels so luxurious on the lips.

Despite the lip balms smelling so nice, I would say that the smell of the packaging is a little too over-powering for packaging. The strong smells of plastic/rubber often over-rides the smell of the balm and for me, this is a big ‘no, no’!

EOS smooth sphere lip balms come in the flavours; Strawberry Sorbet, Summer Fruit, Sweet Mint, Honeysuckle Honeydew, Passion Fruit, Lemon Drop (which has an added SPF 15) and Medicated Tangerine.

One final thing that I dislike/would like to change, about this product is the availability. I have never seen an EOS lip balm, or any other EOS products available in a UK store. I also struggled to find them online, finally finding some for sale on the well known auction site, Ebay. However, after further research I found a couple of UK websites, and 1 US site shipping to the UK that sold the EOS lip balm (there links are below). I would love it if EOS products could be sold generally in UK stores as I would definitely be interested in trying out more of their products as I have been very happy with the EOS smooth sphere balm.

For more information on EOS Sphere Smooth Lip Balm, and more information on EOS itself, as well as an insight in to their other products, click the link below.

http://evolutionofsmooth.com/

UK sites

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=eos+-+organic+lip+balm&tag=googhydr-21&index=drugstore&hvadid=17221561790&ref=pd_sl_4452ktrxd3_b

http://www.naturallyfabulous.co.uk/eos---organic-lip-balm-summer-fruit-3268-p.asp

http://www.cutecosmetics.co.uk/eos-45-c.asp

or alternatively, you can search ‘EOS lip balms uk’ on www.ebay.co.uk