Hello, my friends.
Welcome back to "What the ***K?" where we test out Korean beauty products to decide whether
they are worth your time and money.
Today we are going to be talking about this SkinFood Honey Lip Balm #3, the honey flavor
and I've got some tea to spill on this honey.
So, this is the honey pot lip balm.
There's actually 3 of these.
The berry one's #1, mandarin is #2, honey flavor is #3.
I paid $8.75 for this little tiny pot of lip balm.
This is now actually on sale at Amazon for $7.20.
As you know, Amazon prices can fluctuate a bit.
You can also get this on the SkinFood website for $10.00, so Amazon is the better way to
go.
I did get it directly from SkinFood on Amazon.
It also has 4 1/2 stars on Amazon with 120 reviews which is pretty stinkin' good.
So, I was like, "Yes!
I want this in my life!"
They did not have the ingredients listed from SkinFood on this product and I didn't do a
lot of digging before I got it and I probably should have.
This is not the first time I've had issues with SkinFood ingredients.
Last time I reviewed a SkinFood product, it was their strawberry mask and I found discrepancies
between the mask that was sold on Amazon vs. the mask that was sold on Ulta's website.
This is not sold at Ulta.
I was contacted by SkinFood and there is a correction in the description there that,
basically, they messed up the ingredients on Ulta's website and they said, "Please contact
us if you have any other issues.
So, I contacted them.
I have not heard anything back, but I will put something in the description.
And now you're wondering what I contacted them about.
We're gonna pretend this is tea.
So, looked at the ingredients for this on SkinFood's website and I'm looking....and
I'm looking...I'm like, "Okay, textures, mineral oil....Ooooh!
We've got Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride.
That's a good one.
Butylparaben...
Fragrance....
Yellow Lake #5, okay.
Where's the honey?
Where's the honey?
Where is the honey?
I'm gonna put their description of what this product is on the screen right now, and you'll
see here that they do claim that you do get benefits from honey in this product.
But there's no honey!
There's no honey listed here!
Some of their other products do have honey listed.
They have honey listed or honey extract listed.
There's nothing listed here.
Let's take a second to pause.
As I was editing this video, I was taking screenshots of things and I noticed something
on the SkinFood website that I wanted to mention.
You'll notice here that it says honey, and then it gives a description, and then after
that it says "additional ingredients."
Before I filmed this video I didn't see that it says "additional" ingredients.
Meaning, I guess, that honey is one of the ingredients and these are the rest of the
ingredients.
But that just seems fishy to me, because when you list ingredients you should list all the
ingredients because how do I know where honey falls on the list, so I decided to do a little
more digging and the only other place that I could find ingredients on a sales website
was on the Memebox website and as you can see here, there is no honey listed in the
ingredients.
So, I'm still gonna stand by, until I hear from SkinFood, that this product doesn't have
any honey in it.
I'm getting very frustrated with SkinFood and the way that they don't seem to care how
the ingredients are listed for their products.
As an ingredient junkie it just really is very irritating.
Alright, so now back to the review.
And honey might be something that you would really like to have in a lip balm.
I did a little bit of research on honey itself.
LiveStrong's website talks about it being a moisturizer for the skin, protecting against
damage, and promoting wound healing which would be great for the lips.
Different honey has different properties, though.
They say that the best honey is supposed to be Manuka honey, but there's a bunch of different
kinds that are supposed to be higher quality than other kinds, specifically for skin care.
On the other SkinFood honey products, they don't say specifically what kind of honey
they use, but honey could potentially be a very nice ingredient for this, but there ain't
no honey in it.
Just so ya know.
At least that's what they have listed.
I mean, I looked up all the scientific names trying to figure out, are they hiding it in
some kind of science that I just don't understand.
I can't find it.
So, let me just tell you a little about this product.
It is mineral oil based based on the ingredients.
And what you do is there's this little plastic thing here that holds this little drummette
thing.
And you take this little plastic piece off.
I don't know if you can see that, but it just barely holds that.
So you can take this really cute little wooden, I don't know what you call this thing.
Little wooden thing.
And you can pull the product here.
We're going to go ahead and apply with this, but again, you can apply with your fingers
if you want to.
It's just it's hard especially if you have false nails or long nails it's going to be
hard to get your finger in this pot, because it is quite small.
I think I got a little bit too much.
It smells fabulous.
It's got a great little flavor to it, a great scent to it.
It's not really overpowering in its scent.
But as you can see, it's just a mineral oil based shine.
A lot of lip glosses and lip balms have mineral oil in them.
It's not a fancy ingredient by any means.
It doesn't do anything magical as far as the look of it.
Actually, let me zoom you back out to tell you a little bit more.
Hold on a second.
So what you're going to be paying for with this product is the packaging.
I've used this 5 or 6 times.
I've used it before bed to see if there is a noticeable difference when I wake up in
the morning and there hasn't been for me.
This does have a very high rating on Amazon, so it's possible that someone else may have
some kind of magical things that this may work better for you, but this, to me, wasn't
any better than a $2 lip gloss except for the packaging.
The packaging is really cute.
I do wish that there was a way for this little thingy, this little wooden thing to stick
here without that little plastic piece.
'Cause I can see this being lost very easily.
I am glad that they included it though because it is a little bit difficult to get your finger
into the pot.
If it was a $3 product, I would say, "Yay!!"
But the fact that it was an $8 product, I think that is very overpriced for what you
get.
There's definitely nothing magical in this product unless SkinFood somehow has something
magical in it and just didn't happen to include it in the ingredient list.
You may know that I'm about to go on a vacation with my family to New York and Canada, so
there will not be a What the ***K after next week, but I've got a fun one for you next
week.
I ordered these off The Face Shop on Amazon.
I don't know if they're still available or not.
I don't think they are, but they are too fun not to do, and we're gonna get the whole family
involved next week's What the ***K.
It's gonna be epic.
And it's these Simpson's face masks.
I've got Homer for my husband.
I've got Lisa for my daughter, I've got Marge for me.
I've also got an extra Homer and an extra Lisa because I don't know what my son's gonna
want to do.
They didn't have a Bart one, so we will see what he wants to do.
Who he wants to be.
He can be anybody he wants.
But it should be a lot of fun next week for What the ***K, so make sure that you subscribe
so that you don't miss it.
Mad love, and I'll see you in a video soon.
Bye!
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