I love good lip balms and I love coffee and tea, so when I had the opportunity to try the natural coffee and tea flavored lip balms from Crazy Rumors, I was very interested. After trying them I'm a huge fan. These are great lip balms, not greasy or heavy but very moisturizing. Since they're not gooey and do not contain color, they are perfect under lipstick or gloss and are also suitable for the men in your life. These are nice worn alone, leaving my lips with a smooth and soft natural sheen not shine. All ingredients are plant derived so they're Vegan friendly.

There are six flavors in the coffee line, which is called Perk, including Amaretto, Coffee Bean, French Vanilla, Hazelnut, Irish Cream and Mocha. The Brew line, which is the tea flavors, also has six varieties: Apple Spice, Ginger Peach, Orange Bergamot, Peppermint Lemongrass, Plum Apricot and Spiced Chai. All flavors come in your choice of .15 oz twist- up tubes or .25 oz. tins and are $4 each. Usually I don't like lip balms in tins since they're often hard to open and sticking my fingers in goopy balm isn't very appealing. These are great little tins though. Very well made and easy to open and close. They're a little bigger than a Kennedy half dollar and not too thick so they take up no room at all in a purse or pocket. There is no goo with these balms so no greasy fingers. The tubes are the twist up type for those who prefer that type.

The coffee flavors I tried were Coffee Bean, which is like a fresh cup of coffee and Hazelnut, which seemed to have a almond aspect to it to me, but still nice. These are lightly scented and flavored, enough to tell what they are without being overwhelming. The tea flavors are the same. Just enough scent and flavor. I had Ginger Peach, which started out more ginger, but then turned into a peach. And it's a good peach too. Spiced Chai, the other tea flavor I tried seemed mostly cardamom to me, but other notes and flavors are in there.

If you want a lip balm that's fun yet for grown-ups and has some great natural ingredients too, check out Crazy Rumors

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