Review: bodhi Cacao Cocoon Lip Treatment Balm

A couple of weeks ago I placed an order for bodhi's Mint Thé Temple Balm and Elijah, the founder of bodhi, was very kind and sent me through a Cacao Cocoon Lip Treatment Balm. 

I wanted to give the Lip Treatment a couple of weeks use to be able to give an informed review on how I found it, which is why this has come a little later than my Mint Thé Temple Balm review.

My first impressions were that this was a lip balm like no other. If you have read other reviews on this then you will know that it is free from beeswax and instead packed with butters and oils to give it a luxuriously smooth balm.  The balm is made up of Cacao Butter, Murumuru Butter, Illipe Butter, Red Raspberry Seed Oil, Sea Buckthorn Oil and Blackcurrent Seed Oil - all chosen for their nourishing and protecting properties.

 It is packaged in a really chic black glass pot and it full to bursting (there was product around the rim and in the lid too!) with a beautiful deep orange balm . Scent is really important to me so the first thing I did was take a good old sniff of the contents and I was not disappointed. The Cacao Butter and Cacao Absolute give the balm a spicy dark chocolate fragrance but deeper than that I could pick out Vanilla and Spearmint. It is quite a subtle scent and certainly not something that you can taste once applied.

Next to the texture - as I said this is free from beeswax and it is not something I have come across before. Never fear though, bodhi know what they are doing! The balm is so smooth and light to use, very easily absorbed into the skin and leaves no sense of heavy butter or oiliness behind. Although this is a Lip Treatment Balm, you can use it on patches of dry skin as a protective and nourishing balm. 

The Cacao Cocoon Lip Treatment Balm is a firm favourite of mine and lives on my bed side table. I have been using it at night and first thing in the morning for the last few weeks. It has been especially hard working during the last week as I have been so poorly and my lips have suffered from cracking, splitting and peeling. It really works on a deeper level and has been healing my skin from within. 

bodhi was a brand that I hadn't really encountered before I started to read blogs. I have only been using their products for a couple of months and yet with each product I try I fall a little bit more in love with them. My wish list for bodhi started out with the Temple Balm and the Mint Thé Therapy but now has gradually grown to encompass their whole range! Next on my hit list though is the Rosemary Chi Himalayan Detox Salt Scrub.

You can buy the Cacao Cocoon Lip Treatment Balm from the bodhi website here for £15 for 15g. 

Read my review on bodhi's Mint Thé Temple Balm here.