11/28/2025
Natural Lip Balm vs. Harmful Ingredients — What Your Lips Deserve 💋
Your lips are one of the most delicate areas of your skin, and they absorb everything you put on them.
That’s why choosing a truly natural lip balm isn’t just a preference—it’s a form of nourishment, protection, and daily self-devotion.
Most conventional lip balms contain ingredients that feel soothing at first but actually dehydrate over time, causing you to reapply again and again. ♾️
Common culprits include:
✨ Petroleum + mineral oils — occlusive, non-breathable, and can trap irritation
✨ Synthetic fragrances + flavors — common irritants and endocrine disruptors
✨ Parabens + preservatives — linked to hormonal imbalance and skin sensitivity
✨ Alcohols + cooling agents — create the illusion of relief while drying out the lips
🌼 Natural ingredients, on the other hand, work with the body—offering true moisture, healing constituents, and long-term repair rather than temporary coating.
🌿 Why Natural Wins: Plant Medicine for the Lips
At The Forbidden Fruit Apothecary, we craft our Lovely Lip Balms with the same reverence we bring to all herbal preparations—simple, potent, earth-aligned ingredients your skin recognizes as nourishment:
💛 Calendula, St. John’s Wort & Plantain infused extra virgin olive oil — deeply restorative, soothing, and anti-inflammatory
💛 Coconut oil — softens and hydrates
💛 Beeswax — creates a breathable protective layer
💛 Pure essential oils — gentle botanical aromatics
💛 And, of course, so much love
No fillers. No artificial junk. Nothing your body has to “fight through.”
Just plants doing what they’ve always done—heal, soothe, soften.
🖤 Black Friday Sale
Enjoy 3️⃣5️⃣% off sitewide now through December 4th — including our beloved Lovely Lip Balms.
All our love and gratitude
-The Forbidden Fruit Apothecary 🍎