✨ Poppy & Pout: Handmade lip balms from Idaho in push-up cardboard tubes. Lots of flavors. Leaping Bunny certified.

🍃 Ingredients (as listed by Poppy & Pout): cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, cera alba (beeswax), helianthus annuus (sunflower) oil, natural flavor oil.

✅ The Good: Coconut oil, beeswax and sunflower oil, all plant or animal-based.

💚 Progress Over Perfection: The “natural flavor oil” isn’t named. Poppy & Pout says it uses essential oils and natural flavor oils, with no synthetic fragrance.

📦 Packaging: Recyclable cardboard tube.

✨ River Organics: Vegan lip balms, 0.28 oz. Bare (no color) or tinted in Nude, Rose Gold and Rouge. No added fragrance, just a light cacao scent.

🍃 Ingredients (as listed by River Organics): organic cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, organic macadamia integrifolia seed oil, euphorbia cerifera (candelilla wax), organic theobroma cacao seed butter (cocoa butter), mangifera indica (mango) seed butter, vitamin E oil, caprylhydroxamic acid, glyceryl caprylate, glycerin. Tinted shades add mineral pigments: mica, iron oxide (CI 77491), titanium dioxide (CI 77891, Nude and Rose Gold) and manganese violet (CI 77742, Rose Gold).

✅ The Good: Plant oils, plant butters and candelilla wax (a plant wax), mostly organic.

💚 Progress Over Perfection: Caprylhydroxamic acid and glyceryl caprylate are mild, lab-made preservative helpers made from coconut fats. The tints are mineral pigments, which are usually made in a lab for purity.

📦 Packaging: Plastic-free, home compostable paper tube.