Zambeezi Organic Tangerine Lip BalmOrganic essential oil of tangerine gives Zambeezi an fresh bright flavor.
Zambeezi is the only lip balm made with organic beeswax and mungongo*.
It comes in a hip, 'won't roll off the table' oval tube, It's got a great story and a great cause, and best of all, it's lovely on your lips!
*Mungongo nuts have long been used by Zambians as food and as a skin and hair moisturizer. Traditional wisdom turns out to be right, lab
testing reveals that the chemical structure of mungongo is very similar to lanolin, but without negatives. This allows us to decrease the lanolin
content while adding smooth, nourishing roperties.
Organic beeswax? That's right, bees travel in a large radius from the hive and they carry back trace amounts of whatever they come across.
That's why it's important to use beeswax from a pristine environment where there are no harmful pesticides or chemicals. We support a Zambian program which has organically certified an entire province.
Ingredients:beeswax*, coconut oil*, sunflower oil*,jojoba oil*, lanolin, mungongo oil*, tangerine oil*, orange oil*, lemongrass oil*, peppermint oil*, rosemary oil*, vitamin e. *Certified Organic Fair Trade Product of Zambia, Africa: beeswax, sunflower oil, lemongrass oil, rosemary oil.
At Zambeezi, we're not content to simply make the best lip balm on the planet, we're here to make a difference. Zambia is the corner of the world where we are working and there's a lot to be done here. Little by little we're seeing change.
African farmers often receive only a pittance for their hard work, even if their final product fetches a high price in stores in developed countries. One of our company's goals is to reduce this gap, so that the workers who make our ingredients and products receive a fair and living wage for their work - a wage that better reflects the actual value of their inputs and not simply the power structures of the global economy.
But for us, fair trade is about more than fair wages. We use our company's profits to benefit African communities, by partnering with local churches to build schools, clinics, drilling wells and other projects that serve needs they identify.
The vast Miongo forests of Zambia are one of the largest swaths of pristine sub-tropical forest left in Africa. Covering an area the size of Texas, these seasonal forests are an important global absorber of carbon dioxide. Inhabited by tens of thousands of Bantu subsistence farmers, these forest ecosystems provide a living in much the same way that they have for generations. Today the well-being of these people and their forests is threatened. Clear cutting for timber and strip mining for copper are tempting options. We’re helping to provide alternative sources of income that are kinder to the land and the people.
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95% organic
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