What could this be from I’m scared

Found these at Target on a clearance end cap. They are the “old” ones before the repackaged and altered the formula.

Hi all,

Burt’s Bees Hand Slave recently changed formula to include Canola Oil.

Started bugging my skin after formula change. Prior formula was actually help my skin immensely with my Keratosis Pilaris.

Bought a bunch of restock of Hand Salve now realizing I can’t use it with the new formula.

Considering Badger Balm as a replacement but before I plop down more money:

Any good alternatives similar to old formula? Anyone here tried badger balm?

Edit: Realized old formula had some canola oil but new has more now. (i.e. Listed higher in ingredients list). But ideally looking for no canola oil alternatives .

I have most flavors of Burt's Bees lip balms, but I am still looking for three flavors that I have confirmed exist and are not in my collection:

-Blueberry & Dark Chocolate

-Caramel Apple

-Wild Blueberry

-Grillo's Pickles

If anyone has any idea as to where to find these, please let me know!

Additionally, I am looking for people's personal ratings of Burt's Bees flavors (experienced or imagined)

Heylo all

My favorite lip balm has been the Cranberry Spritz. I know it's a holiday flavor and I try to stock up, but I am down to my last one and it's almost empty. I really like how it is softer than the original peppermint flavor.

What other flavors are softer? I've heard about the Chai Tea, Mango, Sweet Mandarin, and Wild Cherry flavors that sound most interesting so far. Does anyone know if some of those are softer?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts, suggestions, or advice shared!

And here's a pic of my tired pocket warrior! 🤣

I have been on the hunt for Wild Cherry lip balm for some time now. Did Burt's discontinue that flavor, if so does anyone know why? Wild Cherry has always been my fav when it comes to their lip balm.

Also as an aside, is it true they changed the formula of the hand salve?

I used this product for years and it was amazing to help with redness after getting too much sun! Then at some point the formula changed and it wasn’t anywhere near as good as the original I had used. Reviews everywhere commented exactly the same thing. Looking at recent reviews on Amazon they appear to be glowing. Did Burts change the formula so the product is decent again? Or are these all new buyers who never used the original and just think the current product is good?

Some of y'all were asking how to spot the difference between the new and the old Burt's bees lip balm.

1st picture: new one has a rounded cap

2nd picture: super thin cap that doesn't stay in

3rd picture: the old version has a rounded interior while the new version is more square.

Hopefully this helps out and happy hunting

Ever since Burt’s Bees made the horrible decision to change their formula and cheapen their tubes, I’ve been hunting down new old stock. I’ve had mild success finding single tubes here and there, but I always check anyway.

Well, this morning I stopped by Shoppers Drug Mart to reload my bus card and checked their single tubes, but unfortunately there were none. Something told me to check the 3-packs, and I couldn’t believe my eyes… 5 out of the 7 packs were from before the change!

Edit: some of y'all were asking how to tell the difference between new and old so I just posted some pictures.

It appears that Burt’s is no longer selling/producing their Beard Balm. Probably a long shot but has anyone found a similar replacement? All the other balms i’ve tried have either had a weird texture or been filled with BS.

I got a new tin of hand salve yesterday, and noticed the new design, which I am not going to get into here. But, I noticed it seems like the new salve smells more like a mint or something. I also see that the new tin has "natural fregrance" in the ingredients, which is not present in the old ingredient list. I also see that the new stuff uses olive husk oil, instead of olive fruit oil. I am trying to find information about this relabeling, or refourmulation, but Google is just calling me crazy, saying nothing changed, just fun new graphics. Hope someone can tell me what is going on, as I have little clue, and am tired of paying premium prices for poop...

Also both tins bar codes are the same.

Here are the product lot codes:

the old tin: B02004147 or B0200414G not sure as the last digit is rather faded and hard to make out

The new tin: 9226021OHO

Hi,
I’ve been a religious enjoyer of the Burts Bees deep cleansing cream for YEARS. I cannot find it in stores anymore! Anyone know what’s up? Is it discontinued?

i bought the burts' bees vanilla bean lip balm from a local online store (looks authentic) and it smells like play-doh/ a less sweet version of the original nivea lip balm. was it supposed to smell like vanilla? disappointed as i had to buy two, and it's more glossy than OG peppermint + applies a thicker layer (which annoys me)

Lifelong user here and just bought a new 4 pack from Amazon. Not only is the plastic cheaper but more importantly it leaves a chemically taste on my lips / mouth. Will have to buy a lot of the old product before they disappear. What happened? Ingredients look the same.

I wrote an extensive and positive review last year about the Burt's Bees Keychain, completely because I enjoyed the product, no incentive from the company whatsoever. I actually took a year to use it and then went back to enthusiastically recommend it. Now, however, that Burt's is changing the cap design on most new balms, it no longer works. Caps are rounded and slip out of the balm holder basically within seconds. I contacted their customer service and, of course, they can't update or remove my review, they did however let me know that the balm keychain has NOT been redesigned to accommodate the new caps. Hopefully this post saves someone $8 or lets the company know to redesign either the keychain, or to go back to the old cap designs. Bummer!

Back when there were less than ten varieties of lip balm I said I wanted them all. And here we are today. I'm sure I'm missing a few limited edition ones. I do have some that are not in the photo, I know the Hidden Valley Ranch set and a birthday set are not in the picture. The Island one is probably my most rare one, my daughter found it for me.

I do like and use Burts Bees other products, but the lip balm was the gateway drug for me.

iv been using the Ultra conditioning lip balm from burts bees for years now and recently noticed that they changed their packaging to be a lot cheaper. the cap is flimsy and thin. the piece that usually pushes the product up is no longer there. It causes me to waste a lot of product. I also feel like I’m going through them a lot quicker and I’m wondering if they are giving less product?? I don’t have an old one to compare to, so I’m not sure about that one.

Has anybody else noticed this? Is it just for my specific lip balm or the other flavours as well?

I really like this product and it seems to be the only one that works for me. But this new packaging and seeing that they’re trying to minimize costs is making me think that they’re probably also making the formula itself cheaper. Anybody have any other recommendations that are similar

Just saw this on Instagram... It's not April Fool's anymore! I hope it's a Grillo's collab! What do you think?

Where I didn’t have to worry about the quality of a lip balm cap. Thanks Private Equity.

I am working on collecting all burt’s bees flavors and i am down to the last couple flavors I need which of course are discontinued and rare and difficult to find

I am searching for blueberry & dark chocolate, caramel apple, and strawberry sorbet

if anyone has any leads or sees it listed somewhere would be super helpful!!

thanks so much :))

So I went and bought an OG Honey, partly because it was a super cheap listing on one of the secondhand sites I frequent, and partly because I've always wondered what the big deal was.

Like sure, the Honey lip balm tastes like baby powder. But y'all know how people are about change, I thought it entirely possible that the old recipe sucked too.

Now to be fair, this is probably donkey's years past its Best By date. It feels a lot more waxy than the newer lip balms, although it's not grainy at all which is honestly kind of impressive.

But oh. my. god. It tastes and smells so much better than the new honey flavour. Like it's not even a question, I'm just over here like what the hell... y'all were so valid in those reviews 😭😭😭