Recently, I received Teadora Rainforest at Dawn Nourishing Lip Butter to try out. The packaging is very well done: modern, attractive, and it reinforces what the brand stands for.
Teadora celebrates the Brazilian rainforest by using natural, anti-oxidant rich ingredients from the rainforest in their bath and body products:
- acai: protects skin from environmental stress
- buriti (the Tree of Life): nourishes, repairs, protects and improves the elasticity of skin
- andiroba tree’s flowers and nuts: plumps and smoothes the skin to help make wrinkles less noticeable
- cupuacu: one of the world’s best natural moisturizers improve the appearances and elasticity of the skin
- pitanga: maintains the health and appearance of skin.
Teadora’s ingredients are fair-trade sourced and sustainably harvested. Their mission in creating these lovely natural products is to also help the rainforest and its communities survive.
The Teadora website describes their lip butter as follows:
- “With healing ingredients from the rainforests of Brazil, our dual-function lip treatment lightly exfoliates and naturally softens your lips – as their juicy flavors: Laranja (Citrusy) and Açaí-Açu (Berry-chocolate) delight your senses. Its orange-peel wax, allow you to activate it as a light exfoliant treatment before moisturizing.”
I received Laranja, and if you read my blog, you know I adore orange and citrus scents and flavors. The Teadora lip butter citrus scent smells sublime and the flavor is delicious! Coupled with the exfoliating sugar, I cannot stop licking my lips because it tastes so darn good!
The lip butter itself is on the stiff side, at least during the first several uses. I wish it came with a little scoop applicator so I wouldn’t have to put my finger in it, but many lip butters come in a pot like this.
It’s a lightweight butter, and in spite of the exfoliating sugar, it is smooth on my lips. Because my lips are dry as the desert, it is a good lip butter for me to use during the day or under a drying lipstick. It isn’t quite emollient enough for me at night, and I have a lip treatment that I use then. For 90% of people in the world, I believe that Teadora lip butter would be plenty hydrating. And in terms of the taste, scent and natural ingredients, Teadora Rainforest at Dawn can’t be beat!
Teadora Rainforest at Dawn is 0.5 oz. for $15. It is quite a large pot, and I use so little with each application that I know it will last me a long time. 100% vegan. Free of parabens, synthetic fragrance, silicone, gluten, phthalate, sulfates and other harsh chemicals which is great since I’m putting it on my lips and almost eating it! I’m assuming it must be cruelty-free. It’s sold on the Teadora website and on Amazon, and you can follow them on Facebook/TeadoraBeauty or on Twitter: @TeadoraBeauty. It would make a great hostess gift, teacher’s gift, stocking stuffer, and a great little treat for yourself. Teadora Beauty also makes body butter, body scrubs, soap, shampoo and conditioner in full and travel sizes that come in the Dawn/Laranja/citrus or Dusk/Acai-Acu/berry-chocolate scents and flavors. YUM!
Sounds great! I too love citrus scents! 🙂
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It is yummy, Melissa!
This sounds like a great lip butter for someone suffering with dry lips.
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Yes, it’s a great multi-purpose product: lip exfoliator and balm. You could use it on cuticles, too, but it tastes to good to use it on my fingers 😉
This sounds awesome! I’m all about lip exfoliators.
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It really is a nice dual-use product: lip exfoliator and balm in one. Plus it tastes so good, I can’t stop using it.
I have this one too and the smell of it is AMAZING!!!!!!!
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And don’t you love the taste, too, Kat?? I keep licking it off because it tastes so dang good 😉
Sounds nice! I love citrusy scents.
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This one smells and tastes like heaven, Gio!!
I guess we all will need a lip balm since it is getting cold. My lips and hands are very dry these days, and I need extra care or they will start to crack !
Very helpful review, Allison 🙂
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Thank you, Dima. This is a lovely natural product that you would really like. I’m sorry Teadora is not an international brand…yet
I’ve been using this and really like it!
For me, it’s a wonderful exfoliator that I want to use all the time because it tastes so good 🙂
This sounds awesome!
It’s so delicious, I can’t stop licking it off my lips. I want to exfoliate all the time, lol!
HAHA, yes! It’s so delightful!
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Glad you’re enjoying yours too, Kat! We’re all going to have super-soft lips!
Sounds amazing!
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It’s a lovely product, Leigh. It tastes so good I want to exfoliate my lips constantly 😉
You know, Allison, I can buy it through Shop and Ship, but I have to pay extra shipping costs for shipping over seas, which is expensive in case of small orders.
Any way, I got a jar of unrefined shea butter, and I guess it just come on time! I will post my review soon!
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I remember you told me about how expensive Shop and Ship is. Save it for the extra-special things! I’m glad you got the unrefined shea butter. I tried some at a farmer’s market in a beautiful college town in North Carolina a few years ago. It made my hands feel so soft. I then bought some (a few years ago) to use after I had surgery on the incision. Like coconut oil, it’s a wonderful multi-purpose product. I look forward to your review 🙂
Could you pls tell me how you use it for your hands? Do you warm it a little in your palms before ? Because my shea butter is a little bit hard, maybe because of the cool weather?
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Exactly right, Dima. Just like coconut oil, hold it in your hands and it’ll get soft enough to use. Mine was a pale yellow, almost butter color. It’s good to use in DIY recipes too.
Thank you, Allison!
Mine is same color, I read that this is the color of a good quality shea butter.
Yes, it is great for DIY’s !
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After seeing this twice today i think it’s save to say I need it in my life
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Haha, Betzy! I saw Kath’s great review, too. It really is a wonderful exfoliator and it provides good hydration if you lips are super-dry. It tastes so good that I keep licking my lips when I’m wearing it, and I know I shouldn’t 😉
This sounds amazing and so perfect now that the cold air is coming for the next months.
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Definitely perfect timing for this one. And I think it would make a great little gift!
I definitely need this lip scrub in my life – sounds fantastic!
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I love that it is a delicious exfoliator/balm. Worth a try, Jess!
This sounds so good! I have to try it!
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I want this, sounds fab!!
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Definitely worth trying: the delicious taste, scent, exfoliation, balm, natural ingredients, helping the rainforest. Sold.
I also featured this today. I love it!
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I loved your review and pix 🙂
I NEED this! I too love citrus scents and this sounds uber hydrating–great review!
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It tastes like eating orange candy, it’s soooo delicious, Cindy, I’m almost eating it! And it’s great that it’s a multipurpose exfoliator/balm 🙂
I had to go check out this company after this review. I definitely want to try this I’m always trying new lip balms because my lips are always dry.
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I like the fact that it has natural ingredients and that it’s a dual-purpose exfoliator/balm. And it tastes fabulous. It does hydrate while it’s on. For my super-dry lips, nothing works as well as City Lips Lip Plumper because the HA & collagen in that one really do the trick for me.
I also got this flavor.. and it smells and tastes soo good.. almost tooo good! I want to eat it! I had lipstick on earlier, and I saw my little Teadora pot on my desk, and I started to reach for it, and had to remind myself that I had lipstick on! It’s kinda addictive.
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I feel like I’m reading about this everywhere today! It sounds like a fantastic product!
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I use lip scrubs often, probably at least once per week. Even though I use lip balm religiously I still get dry flaky lips.
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This sounds really nice. I want it now 😀
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I will be featuring this on my site on Friday or Monday… I am absolutely loving it.
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It reminds me of the inside of a mango!
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This stuff is great! I like that it also doubles as a lip scrub and a lip plumper.
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I loved the scent and flavor of this balm so much! It’s also perfect as a light exfoliator before applying your favorite matte, vampy lip product!
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