Product Review: Badger Beauty Balm

Product Claims

• Intensive moisturizer for targeted spots, such as under-eye and stretch marks.

• Reduces the appearance of fine lines & wrinkles.

• Powerful plant-based antioxidants support skin as it changes and evolves.

Restorative Beauty Care. Honor your beautifully evolving body with this spectacular beauty balm blend of restorative oils, and reveal your healthiest, most beautiful skin ever. Our Rose Oil is traditionally processed for the best quality: the blossoms are hand-picked before sunrise and distilled the very same day. It takes two and a half tons of fresh rose petals to make 16 ounces of this precious oil! Badger Bill developed this beauty balm at the request of his wife, Katie, who was looking for a natural botanical formula "to keep my skin healthy as I change and evolve!"

 This product also complies with Leaping Bunny standards for cruelty free products.

Ingredients

*Olea Europaea (Extra Virgin Olive) Oil, *Ricinus Communis (Castor) Oil, *Cera Alba (Beeswax), Essential Oils of *Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender), *Rosa Damascena (Rose Otto), & Anthemis Nobilis (Roman Chamomile), and CO₂ Extracts of *Rosa Canina (Rosehip), *Hippophae Rhamnoides (Seabuckthorn), & *Calendula Officinalis (Calendula). * = Certified Organic

After becoming familiar with the Badger company, I trust Badger to use only the best organic ingredients for their products. To verify that, this Badger product received a EWG's Skin Deep rating of 1. (For those of you not familiar with this rating, a rating of 0-3 is considered low toxicity and deemed a more natural product.)

Price & Quantity

1oz - $13.99

For the amount you get you might be apprehensive to spend the money, but let me assure you that a little goes a long way! You could used this balm twice a day and still have the jar for months to come.

How to Use

Gently dab a little under eyes, on face, or anywhere on the body to keep your skin nourished and healthy. Ideal for dry and delicate skin, as well as stretch mark prevention.

The Verdict

I'm hard pressed to find anything Badger that I don't like! The Beauty Balm is my first experience with their Damascus Rose beauty line. I selected this product because after deciding to give up oil cleansing with Grapeseed Oil I needed some extra moisture in my skincare routine. Also, before I picked up the Beauty Balm I was desperate enough to use the Sleep Balm to smooth out my dry skin at night. While the Sleep Balm is not intended as a beauty product, it was safe to use on the face sooo... that's what I did. The Beauty Balm was a natural progression from there.

I have used the Beauty Balm for about three weeks now and I can say that I have been very impressed since day one. The scent is very nice if you like lavender, rose and chamomile. I'm not sure how much it smells like rose, but I still like the smell regardless. The texture of the Beauty Balm is more "creamy" than their other balms they have. However, it is not a cream. When warmed between the fingers it is easily smoothed across the skin. It usually requires a few applications to cover your whole face. TIP: I did discover that if you need a light layer before putting on makeup you can apply the with a clean damp sponge. 

I like this product, but I will probably use it along side one of their face oils in the future. The Beauty Balm is ideal as a night cream, under eye cream, and for applying longer lasting moisture to any rough patches of skin. I like using the Beauty Balm mainly for my acne patches that are still healing. It gave much needed moisture to area that are dry and flaky on my face without feeling heavy or caked on. The great thing about Badger is that this product is not only safe to use on your face, but other parts of your body (neck, hands, elbows, knees, stretch marks etc). This is really one of those "all-in-one" products.

I would recommend this product to all skin types, especially those with mature skin and dry skin.