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Best Lip Balms — No Petroleum, No Fragrance
Lip balm gets licked off, swallowed, and reapplied all day — so it is effectively a food. Petroleum-based balms (petrolatum, mineral oil) are fine in small amounts but do not heal cracked lips; wax + plant oil blends actually repair the barrier.
What to look for
- Beeswax, candelilla wax, or carnauba as the base
- Shea butter, cocoa butter, or coconut oil for repair
- No petrolatum / mineral oil as the first ingredient
- No synthetic fragrance
- SPF at least 15 with zinc oxide for sun exposure
Our top-scoring picks
Every product below scored 75 or higher on our 0–100 ingredient-and-nutrition scale. Links go directly to Amazon; as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Herbal Peppermint Tea Tree Lip Balm
Woods & Hunter
Piña Colada Lip Balm
Sun Bum Coco Balm
EOS Smooth Lip Balm
Mandarin Organic Lip Balm
Highland Soap Co.
Raspberry tinted lip balm
Hurraw
Cherry Shine Lip balm
Nivea
Peppermint lip balm
Medicine of the People
Unscented Lip Balm
Portland Bee Balm
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