ROYGBVB Balm Bindle

Hi Emma! So glad you are loving the lip balm, and I have good news for you regarding the packaging -No fingers needed! ☝️💋 Literally all you need to do is snap open the tin, apply directly to lips, and snap shut! If you check out the photos on our Lip Balm page on our website, you can see an instructional video demonstrating this. We won’t likely ever use tubes, for a couple of reasons. One, these tins are so easy to repurpose for other uses (one of which is refilling with our solid lotion), plus they’re able to be recycled in more communities. The other is that plastic lip balm tubes are, well, plastic, while cardboard lip balm tubes aren’t really refillable, plus contain plastic in the form of a moisture barrier on the inside of the tube. This barrier is generally necessary as cardboard will degrade when wet, so it needs some help to keep products fresh. We try to avoid plastic as much as possible, not only for environmental purposes, but for health concerns as well. Micro plastics are being found in more & more places, and our bodies just haven’t evolved to process them. While we’ll likely never eliminate plastics completely from our bodies, waterways, or world, doing our best to lessen them could be a good idea, especially for those with compromised immune or liver/kidney function, as the more we introduce, the more these systems need to work to filter out and process these foreign substances. 💋