EOS Cashmere Lip Butter in Vanilla Cashmere ($6.99) is a new lip butter that promises to moisturize and treat dry, flaky, cracking lips. This formula also promises a plumping effect with a peptide-powered formula for fully, plumped up lips. And of course, the best part of all, it’s supposed to taste and smell like Vanilla Cashmere. As you know Vanilla Cashmere is one of EOS’s most popular fragrances and now they’re bringing it to us in a lip product. Whipped vanilla and caramel? That sounds yummy to me!
The EOS Vanilla Cashmere Collection has a lot of exciting extensions for the Spring 2025 season. We have a body oil, body butter, body wash, and now this lip butter as well. I’m sad to say the EOS Vanilla Cashmere Shea Better Cashmere Body Wash wasn’t really what I was hoping for but I have high hopes for the other items in the collection!
Here’s my review and swatches of the new EOS Cashmere Lip Butter.
Well, I’m sad to say we have another disappointing Vanilla Cashmere launch on our hands. I’m really crushed the body wash didn’t work out for me but now the lip butter too? Sad sigh! EOS Cashmere Lip Butter sounds great in theory but sadly, it’s a very basic and uneventful lip balm with a thick formula that doesn’t apply well and feels super heavy on lips without providing very much moisture at all. Vaseline would be a better option compared to this.
This comes in a slim tube with a slanted applicator. Everyone seems to be going for that Rhodes look and can anyone blame them considering their viral success? You get a good amount of balm at 0.35 oz and the price isn’t too bad at $6.99. I’m pretty sure they’ll release more of these as we head into the Summer 2025 season. If they do I have hopes the formula will be better.
Unfortunately, this is not Vanilla Cashmere. It smells like popcorn and sort of tastes like it too with hint of nuttiness that goes a little tiny bit bitter after application. The smells isn’t unpleasant just not what I wanted but the flavor, well, that’s debatable as I didn’t really love it. The formula is a very thick balm that never melts down and seems to sit rather uncomfortably on top of lips. I felt like I was smearing lard on my lips. It’s very balmy, thick, and heavy. I didn’t even like it at all as it felt like it was drying my lips out versus providing any moisture. It’s also, not a good daily balm since it sort of leaves you looking like you applied a white cream on your lips since it doesn’t apply clear. I did not experience any plumping with this formula.
I’m trying to figure out why it’s making my lips so dry but don’t see anything horrible in the ingredients that would an issue. That being said these aren’t the friendliest of ingredients for wearing on the daily as it does have silicones and beeswax. The beeswax is great for dry, chapped lips but it can also, cause a little dryness as well. So maybe it’s that? I’m pretty disappointed overall, as the marketing about “magically melts into lips for fuller, softer lips” sounds heavenly but this formula simply doesn’t do that at all. It felt very old school lip balm to me.
EOS Cashmere Lip Butter is a fun idea and it’ll garner plenty of interest due to the Vanilla Cashmere hype but I fear those who try it will be very disappointed in the formula.
Where to buy
Target
EOS Cashmere Lip Butter is a new, permanent lip balm available on one flavor/scent that launched for Spring 2025. This is supposed to be flavored like EOS’s popular Vanilla Cashmere Collection with a combination of vanill and caramel. The formula promises to treat dry, flaky lips while helping them to remain hydrated plus it contains a “peptide” infused formula that acts to plump lips. It comes in a slim tube which is 0.35 oz in size and priced at $6.99. It didn’t taste like the vanilla and caramel at all but smelled and tastes a little like popcorn with little bit of nuttiness that turned bitter once applied to my lips. The formula is very heavy with a balmy consistency. It drags during application and one applies it sits on lips and doesn’t sink making for an unpleasant wear. I felt it dried my lips out further and didn’t help main moisture or even aid in adding any. I experience no plumping with this formula.octyldodecanol, dimethicone, synthetic beeswax, caprylic/capric triglyceride, ricinus communis (castor) seed oil, beeswax/cire d’abeille, glycerin, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, bis-diglyceryl polyacyladipate-2, hydrogenated castor oil, simmondsia chinensis (jojoba) seed oil, flavor/aroma, oryza sativa (rice) bran wax, silica dimethyl silylate, polyglyceryl-3 diisostearate, butyrospermum parkii (shea) butter, jojoba esters, ethylhexyl palmitate, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed wax, tribehenin, stearalkonium hectorite, theobroma cacao (cocoa) seed butter, tocopherol, argania spinosa kernel oil, hydrogenated vegetable oil, sorbitan isostearate, stevia rebaudiana leaf/stem extract, polyglycerin-3, acacia decurrens flower wax, propylene carbonate, glycine soja (soybean) oil, palmitoyl tripeptide-1, citric acid, lactic acid, benzyl alcohol1, cinnamal1. 1component of flavor.
Thick, difficult to apply.
Heavy on lips.
Drying.
Smells nice but and initially tastes nice but goes bitter.
Unfortunately, this one isn’t a terribly good formula to recommend to anyone.
