Kofykat: Review: Iraya Vanilla and Whole Milk Lipbalm

Saturday 5 May 2012

Review: Iraya Vanilla and Whole Milk Lipbalm

Iraya is another on India’s awesome Ayurvedic/natural brands. It has an amazing range of stuff filled with nature’s goodness and modern packaging’s attractiveness. One of the first things that caught my eye was the Vanilla and whole milk lip balm.

How cute is the packaging. Love the metallic screw on cap with the heavy glass bottle. They seem to have spent a good deal of time and money on the quality of the packaging. While the glass was a little rough and I couldn’t close the tin once I opened it. A bit of filing away the rogue edges with a metal file solved the problem and now the cap sits comfortably.

Another example of the quality of the packaging. How many companies do we know that do this (see above picture) to their lip balms? Not many I’ll tell you that. I really appreciate the effort they put in to keep the product hygienic . And no, I don’t mind that it is a pot and not a tube or a twist up. Keep your hands clean and then dip. Why blame the bottle because you can’t keep your hands clean Smile with tongue out

To be very honest I think it looks like regular candle wax. It is rather deep down as you can see, feels kind of like the crow throwing the stones into the bucket to get the water up? But it still has a lot of product, the size of the bottle is humungous. And a little goes a very long way. It almost has the texture of Vaseline that has been kept in the fridge.

I’ve placed it next to a slightly bigger body shop lip balm pot. As you can see this one dwarfs the TBS lip balm in size. Now to move of to the review of the actual product.

The company claims nothing. It just says that this provides moisture to chapped lips.

The ingredients list isn’t provided on the site. That is something that I am really not very happy about but it is given on the bottle. I am sure that those who purchase from the store would have no issue with this but those of us who shop online will have to forego the luxury of actually knowing what we are putting on ourselves.