We hope so! And if you are going to be addicted to lip balm, being addicted to one that supports a family, sustainably raised bees, and local and organic ingredients is the way to go. Unfortunately for us though, unlike some lip balms Chapacabra hydrates your lips so if you’re anything like us, you may end up using less lip balm.
Chapacabra contains non-nano, uncoated zinc oxide to give natural full spectrum sun protection and keep your lips healthy even in the most arduous environments. Have we sent it to a lab to get a specific SPF number? No. Will we? Maybe, depends on how much we sell. We self tested by applying a single stripe of Chapacabra to our extra white upper thighs and floating the Teton River (elevation 6500 ft) for 2 hours. The results: very burned thighs with a white stripe where we applied Chapacabra. Chapacabra makes us feel confident adventuring in the sun, whether on the beach or in the mountains.
Sort of. One sucks the blood from livestock, the other is a goat with chapped lips. Second cousins maybe?
Story: We are addicted to lip balm. We got sick of a lip balm we were using breaking in our pockets. We searched for an alternative mint balm with sunscreen and found no good options, so we started making our own. It turned out really good.
Name: We speak Spanish and love Latin America. We’ve seen some great art of the chupacabra – a mythical Mexican monster. Light bulb moment … chapped lips + chupacabra = chapacabra. And what better way to represent this than with a flying cabra (goat) with sweet shades?
Because it is the best flavor. It makes your lips and mouth feel fresh. It makes you feel awake. It soothes chapped lips. Now, you may want to tell us that that’s just like, your opinion, man, but the Chapacabra’s opinion is the law ’round here!
Because it comes from our bees in the backyard. They’re super happy bees. We talk to them, leave them lots of honey in the winter, and keep expanding our native prairie plants so they have wholesome food to eat. We don’t use pesticides on our property. After we use up what our bees can sustainably produce each year, we source additional wax from local bee keepers who use similar practices to care for happy bees.
We source our sunflower oil from a local farm, Smude’s. As they put it, it is “natural, unrefined, not organic certified, non-GMO, Minnesota produced, and high oleic (high amounts of oil content in the seed)”.
We hope not! After 8 different recipes, we think we came out with one that has the right ratio of beeswax (which can make lip balms feel sticky) to non beeswax ingredients to make Chapacabra smooth, but not so soft that it melts. Will it get soft when it’s 85 degrees being stored in my black swim trucks while sunbathing? Of course it will, but it will resist melting. Don’t leave it on your dashboard, that will make it melt.