CBD Lip Balm 50mg

Description

A fifty milligram stick of shea and beeswax with no flavour oils added. A CBD lip balm is the smallest and simplest thing in this catalogue, and at twelve dollars it is also the cheapest way to see how this company tests and how it prices things by the milligram before committing to a fifty dollar jar of anything. What you taste is beeswax, because nothing has been put in to cover it.

What is in a cbd lip balm stick

Three ingredients and a milligram figure. There is no water phase, so there is no preservative system and nothing to spoil.

• CBD lip balm: 50mg of cannabidiol per stick
• Base: shea butter and beeswax, named on the label
• Flavour oils: none added
• Water phase: none, so no preservative system is needed
• Concentration: printed alongside the total, in milligrams per gram
• Price: $12 a stick, with the price per milligram printed under it

Fifty milligrams on a cbd lip balm, described honestly

A stick is a few grams and a single application is a fraction of a gram, so the amount landing on lips at any one time is small. Fifty milligrams across a whole stick is a modest total by the standards of the rest of the catalogue, and the per milligram price on a CBD lip balm is one of the dearest here, because a stick is small and the packaging and certificate cost the same as they would on a larger tin. That figure is printed under the price regardless, including where it argues against the item.

Why no flavour

Because flavour oils on a lip product are the most common cause of a reaction, and because the people buying a plain balm have usually worked that out. Peppermint and cinnamon oils in particular are declared on the labels of products that use them for exactly that reason. A CBD lip balm with three ingredients is also the easiest thing in the range to patch test, since there is nothing in it to confuse a reaction with. The bath and body range lists scent by its essential oil or declared fragrance component rather than describing it as a mood.

The wax base, and what it does

Beeswax and shea with no water means a solid stick with a melting point above body temperature, so it softens on contact rather than before it, and it keeps for years without preserving. Beeswax makes it an animal derived product, which is on the label. A balm sits on the surface rather than absorbing, which is the whole point on lips and the reason nothing here needs to make a permeability claim.

Testing a cbd lip balm

Every batch is assayed by a laboratory with no ownership tie to this company for cannabinoid content, heavy metals, pesticides and microbials. On an anhydrous product the microbial panel is less interesting than on a cream, since there is no water for anything to grow in, so potency and the metals panel are the lines worth reading. Batches under their printed milligrams are withdrawn and the failing certificate stays published alongside the passing ones, which is explained in why we publish the batch that failed.

What the published literature covers

Not lips. Human studies of cannabidiol applied to skin are few and small, generally describing a gel or cream at a stated milligram per gram concentration on a defined area, with most mechanistic work in cell culture or rodent models. Lip skin is thin and lacks the barrier structures of skin elsewhere, which makes even those figures inapplicable, and no published trial has examined a balm of this kind. That is a description of where the evidence stops rather than a claim, and the framework the regulator uses for cosmetic claims is published at fda.gov.

External use. The certificate for the current batch is linked here and filed by lot number.