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How to Prep Your Lips for a Bold Lip
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How to Prep Your Lips for a Bold Lip

Exfoliate, hydrate, blot, then line and apply — the smooth-canvas routine that keeps matte and bold lipstick from clinging to flaky lips.

CocoliciousA microbead-free, plastic-free lip scrub — Cocolicious Luscious Lip Scrub

Microbead-Free: Why Our Lip Scrub Uses Sugar, Not Plastic

Plastic microbeads are banned in the US and UK for polluting waterways. Here's why the Cocolicious Luscious Lip Scrub has always used coconut sugar instead.

Before It Was A TrendThe original coconut lip scrub, since 2015 — Cocolicious Luscious Lip Scrub

The Cocolicious Lip Scrub: Our First Product, Still a Best-Seller

Handmade Heroes launched the Cocolicious Luscious Lip Scrub in 2015 — one of the first commercial lip scrubs on the market. Here's the story of how it started a category.

CocoliciousSwipe-On Stick or Scoop-and-Buff Tub? Choosing a Lip Scrub Format

Swipe-On Stick or Scoop-and-Buff Tub? Choosing a Lip Scrub Format

A lip scrub in a twist-up stick and a lip scrub in a tub can share almost the exact same coconut-sugar base and still feel like two completely different products to use. Neither format is objective...

CelebrityThe lip scrub Lily Collins wore on Vogue — Cocolicious Luscious Lip Scrub

How We Found Out Lily Collins and Sonequa Martin-Green Use Our Lip Scrub

Lily Collins featured the Cocolicious Luscious Lip Scrub in her Vogue Beauty Secrets video; Sonequa Martin-Green featured it in her Harper's Bazaar routine too. Here's what's actually in the tub.

CocoliciousLip scrub vs lip mask vs lip oil — Cocolicious Luscious Lip Scrub

Lip Scrub vs Lip Mask vs Lip Oil: What's the Difference?

Scrub, mask, oil — the lip care aisle sells you three separate products for the same three square inches of face, and rarely explains why you'd need all of them. Short answer: because they don't do...