When I was a little kid my Grandmother was an Avon lady later in life, and she always gave me fun and funky Avon lip balms which are way ahead of their time. As I got older I stopped using lip balms until a college girlfriend of mine, along with make-up artists during male modeling photo shoots, pointed out that I had dry lips and they applied lip balm to my lips. Years after, a friend of mine turned my onto Cherry ChapStick®. However after reading the ingredients and seeing that the product contained petroleum and other toxic to the human body chemicals, and knowing that I was ingesting this did not sit well with me and so began my search for a all-natural based lip balm. I found out that an average women over her life time ingested enough lipstick and lip balm equal to the size of a loaf of bread, which I found absolutely surprising.
In my search I had tried a few lip balms that were ‘natural’ as there were not many on the market at the time, but they turned out not to work so well. So I contacted the manufacturer of Blistex® Blistex Inc. and asked them to make a natural based lip balm. They balked at the idea and said no one was interested in a product such as that. Despite my dismay towards my requests, eventually the Blistex® brand took my concept and ran with it creating the Blistex® Herbal Answer® lip balm in 2002.
Now I make my own all-natural organic GOBBI ORGANICS™ Lip Balm – Citrus, which is absolutely awesome.
1998 | 2002 Blistex® Herbal Answer® – Lip Protectant/Sunscreen SPF 15 (Concept)
Blistex® Herbal Answer® (Product Concept)