How much lip products do we actually consume?

Most of you would have read articles suggesting we consume copious amount of lip balms and lip sticks during our lifetime.  These estimates have ranged from 1.36 to 4.5kg in a lifetime!  Sounds gross right?

 
We don’t actually consume that much product when you take into account product left on coffee cups, glasses, clothes etc.  Now I am one person who uses it constantly and would account for the higher end of the scale.  Even I would have to go through on average approx 450-1500 lip products (based on the 1.36 – 4.5kg above) in my lifetime.  That would suggest we are eating it rather than applying it ;P

Snopes has a very interesting article you can read HERE on how they worked out it would be much less than the estimates above.  The National Health and Medical Research Council in Canberra has a more reasonable, although still inflated estimate of 500-1500 grams per person.

That being said, the ingredients in lip products we consume, should be of more concern, especially if you are nut intolerant, health conscious or vegan.  Some brands use artificial sweeteners and are not ideal if you are avoiding them. Natural and organic ingredients are my preference because who would want to be putting synthetic ingredients on your lips to end up inside you! 

Always check the ingredients of your lip products because you will consume a small % of each product.  All our lip balms, are natural, nut free and available in Organic beeswax or vegan friendly.