Mad Gabs
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I love Mad Gabs, not just because it’s a small, woman-owned business, but also because it makes the BEST lip balm EVER for my über-dry, chapped winter lips. And okay, I think the moose lips are a hoot and a half, too. Who doesn’t love moose lips? The company is based in Maine, which is where my sister found the blackberry-flavored Moose Smooch lip balm—in a recyclable tin, no less—that she got me. Mad Gabs products are free of petroleum or petroleum derivatives, synthetics, artificial flavors, or fragrance oils. (The lip balm contains only olive oil, beeswax, Vitamin E oil, and natural flavor, so pucker up, buttercup.) And ever since owner Gab discovered the “horrors of paraffin” (more in a future post), she started making 100-percent-soywax candles scented with essential-oil blends.
The Holiday Moose collection, with sugar-cookie- and candy-cane-flavored body balms and lip smoochers, make fun yet practical stocking stuffers for your mistletoe close-up. (From $3, Mad Gabs)
peppylady said,
December 20, 2006 at 10:15 am
I haven’t done a madgab for ages but I’ve always enjoyed.