The Sheep & The Bees
The Sheep
A key ingredient in most lip balms is lanolin. Check the label on your favorite lip balm. You see it? What is lanolin? Lanolin is a waxy substance collected from sheep's wool. The same wool that is used to make boots, slippers, coats, blankets, curtains, carpet, etc., is used to make the average lip balm. I'll spare you the gruesome details of the torture sheep are often put through for these products.
The Bees
Another key ingredient in the vast majority of lip balms is beeswax. Go ahead and check the label again. Beeswax is made by literally boiling beehives. The same hives that bees need to survive are boiled down, strained, and cooled to make beeswax.
The Solution
Moisturized lips are great. Displacing and harming animals? Not so much.
As an avid lip balm user, I had to find an alternative. Unfortunately, an (affordable) alternative was not so easy to find. And so, Plant Pucker was born.