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Summer Fridays

Lip Butter Balm.

Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm
Lip

About this product

A rich, buttery lip balm from Summer Fridays, formulated to hydrate and add a glossy, comfortable finish, offered across multiple shades.

Best for

Dry skin
Lip

The Guru Index verdict

65%

Mixed

~Mixed · 65%
9Reviewers
6Approved
0Mixed
3Skip
#6 in Best Lip

What the gurus are saying

Gurus are nearly unanimous in their enthusiasm, with repeated praise for intense hydration, pleasant vanilla taste in the original, and impressive longevity per tube. The vanilla version is consistently called out as the preferred option for its clear color and subtle flavor. Minor notes surface around slight tackiness and potential fragrance sensitivity, but these are presented as acceptable trade-offs. Repurchase behavior is strong, with many reviewers buying multiples and gifting.
Synthesized from 9 expert reviews

Key actives & flags

Hyaluronic acidVitamin EFragrance-freeAlcohol-free

Full ingredients

Phytosteryl/​Isostearyl/​Cetyl/​Stearyl/​Behenyl Dimer Dilinoleate, Diisostearyl Malate, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Polybutene, Hydrogenated Poly(C6-14 Olefin), Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Microcrystalline Wax\Cera Microcristallina\Cire Microcristalline, Octyldodecanol, Synthetic Wax, Disteardimonium Hectorite, Polyglyceryl-2 Diisostearate, Mica, Vanillin, Astrocaryum Murumuru Seed Butter, Propylene Carbonate, Tocopherol, Sodium Hyaluronate

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What the gurus are saying.

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"This is a Summer Fridays one. I like this one a lot. I like the way that it tastes."
Approved
"I love the Summer Fridays brand. They've done an amazing job. Their lip balms, I adore them. They're amazing. Although I will say the Polish Choice lip balms, once I got started on this, I kind of like this more because of the peptides and beneficial ingredients, but this one's still really nice and hydrating."
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"Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm, love love love love love this stuff. I've got it in all these little sample sizes so I've always got one in my purse or wherever I might need it."
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"I love this stuff. This is their lip butter balm. It's 24 bucks. This one is really nice. My preference is the vanilla one. It's clear. It's great for daytime. It gives lips a nice shine. This one gives a lot of shine and gloss. And it is slightly sticky or just sticky. It is tacky, but it's nice enough for the daytime. This one's got Mermaroo butter, shea butter, vanilla, vitamin E, and then the different flavors or colors have different tastes and scents to them. So, if you're sensitive to fragrance, I would get the vanilla one. You can get it in a gazillion different shades."
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"The Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm, this one's 24 bucks. I love this so this is basically for the most part most nights this is what I use for my lip balm. I apply a pretty thick layer of it and I go to bed and for the most part I wake up my lips are still moisturized and hydrated. I still keep a small sample little one on my nightstand but overall this one's really wonderful. I love the vanilla because it's clear and it has vanilla scent to it. Some of the other colors have different tastes and things like that so if you're looking for a color I've got a few of them, but overall my favorite's vanilla."
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"I love the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm. I love the vanilla one but I also picked up a set with a couple colors in it. This is the vanilla one which is the one I use at night, and then the Poppy one that I'm wearing right now. I love it. It's got shea butter, cocoa butter, vitamin E, and it's really nice lip balm. It probably sells out very quickly, but if you're in the market for a lip balm this is really nice."
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"I tend to like Summer Fridays a lot. Their lip balm is amazing, love it. I don't know, it's my third or fourth tube and I've given like dozens of them away."
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"Summer Fridays lip balm is vegan and it's amazing."
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"This stuff is just so nice and hydrating. I love this stuff, it just feels so nice on my mouth and it doesn't have a strong scent or anything."
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"Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm, I love this stuff, it's really good. I've been using this and it's lasting me forever and it's just so good. It smells like vanilla if you get the vanilla scent. It feels nice. It's nice to throw some nice rejuvenating and soothing products in there such as the kombucha and the growth factors and the copper peptides."
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"I love the Summer Fridays brand. They've done an amazing job. Their lip balms, I adore them. They're amazing. Although I will say the Polish Choice lip balms, once I got started on this, I kind of like this more because of the peptides and beneficial ingredients, but this one's still really nice and hydrating."
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"For lip products this has become my favorite. This is the vanilla flavor of the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm and it has a light vanilla taste. It dissipates pretty quickly, it doesn't have a lingering like floral taste. They have different flavors though, they have like iced coffee or birthday cake and things like that, so if you like different flavors it's great. And they have different shades of it. This is my favorite, it's clear, it's wonderful. I use it every night before I go to bed, keep a spare in my purse, and then I usually have one on my nightstand as well."
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"I love this lip balm. Initially the price might look a little pricey, however I've been using this now nightly, once a night, every single night for probably three months now. It's the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm and they have it in different flavors and colors. I like vanilla because vanilla is clear, and vanilla as an ingredient is actually good for you. It might look expensive at first, but this stuff, I bet this tube with daily applying liberally, I bet this will last me six months. So when you look at it, it's 24 dollars, that ends up to being like 10 cents a day or something, so it's pretty affordable compared to some other lip balms that would go pretty fast."
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"Summer Fridays absolutely love my favorite from them now is their lip balm. I have multiples of these now, one I keep here, one in my purse. I got a couple of the sets that have some of the sample sizes so I could try some different colors and things like that. Really impressed with their lip balms."
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"For lip balm, Summer Fridays, love this stuff, love it, love it, love it, can't get enough of it. This is vanilla, which is clear."
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"Summer Fridays lip balm, I got a little set of minis, so these are really nice. I just keep one on my bedside. This was Vanilla. Highly recommend checking out, absolutely love it. This lip balm is really wonderful. I've tested a lot of them."
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"I picked up several sets of it over Christmas, they had one set with three large tubes and one set with four mini colored tubes, and now I've got them all everywhere, I've got them on my nightstand, I've got them in my purse, I've got them at my dad's house. I really enjoy this stuff. They're 28 bucks for the large size. My favorite is just the vanilla, it has no color, it tastes a little bit like vanilla, it doesn't have any mint or anything in there, but they've also got different shades like brown sugar. They're wonderful. I love it. My dad's using it now too and I got them for my nieces. I love this lip balm."
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"I'm still working on finishing up the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm. I love this stuff. They have some sets now at Sephora for this so check those out because there's some sets where you can get, I think, like three full sizes for a certain amount, or I think they have a mini set too. The flavor I love is vanilla because it's clear. They have some tinted shades too and they have some other ones that look more clear. I just love this stuff. So if you haven't tried this lip balm, it's great. I absolutely adore it."
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"This is probably my fifth or sixth bottle. I've been using this off and on now for a few years. This stuff lasts forever. I have three full-size backups and three mini backups. I got one for my dad, getting one for my niece. I love it. This is the vanilla, they have colors but I'm just more into the vanilla."
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"Lip Butter Balm has a much better ingredient list in my opinion. It's got some better ingredients in there. It doesn't include the actual fragrancing. It breaks down the fragrance ingredients. And if you want the vanilla Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm, you can still get that with just vanilla in it and no added fragrance. The Summer Fridays one is much more expensive, but in my opinion, it's a much better formulated product."
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"I really thought I found the best lip balm ever was the Summer Fridays and I still love the Summer Fridays."
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"I'm repurchasing the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm. I love it. I'm getting vanilla. They have different colors and flavors. I just love the vanilla, it's wonderful. And if you want something with a little bit of a tint or a little bit of a taste, they've got iced coffee, birthday cake, they've got everything. It's a wonderful lip balm."
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"I freaking love this Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm. This particular shade is vanilla beige. I've tried others because they've sent me a gazillion of these in PR, and the others don't seem as moisturizing and as nice and thick as this one is. It's shea butter, and it's got vegan waxes in it. It's $24 for 0.5 oz."
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"I actually really love this. This particular scent, flavor, shade, the vanilla beige, is the one for me. I've tried other ones and didn't really love them as much. It runs $24 for 0.5 ounce. What I love about this particular shade is it just has this thickness to it. It feels really cushiony. My lips feel like they're being caressed by moisture."
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"I freaking love this Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm. This particular shade is vanilla beige. I've tried others because they've sent me a gazillion of these in PR, and the others don't seem as moisturizing and as nice and thick as this one is. It's shea butter, and it's got vegan waxes in it. It's $24 for 0.5 oz."
Skip
"Their lip butter balm is so popular on TikTok and Instagram. It's got shea butter, muru muru butter, and vegan waxes. Yes, it's moisturizing and softening, and it gives you a really nice shiny finish if that's what you're after. But compared to alternatives, I feel like you don't have much control. It's shiny or nothing. And looking at the ingredients again, it's just a lot of very basic lip balm stuff. It's not groundbreaking. I find myself reaching for it fairly often and my lips drying out fairly often, too."
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"It says on the website it's not greasy that's a straight up lie. Says it's hydrating, another lie. For $25 I don't understand why this is so popular. It's not that bad, like I'm being a little dramatic, but for as much hype as it's gotten, I feel like I'm let down."
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"It says on the website it's not greasy that's a straight up lie. Says it's hydrating, another lie. For $25 I don't understand why this is so popular. It's not that bad, like I'm being a little dramatic, but for as much hype as it's gotten, I feel like I'm let down."
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"Summer Fridays, hate aside, it's not horrible. I just feel like for all the hype I feel a little bit let down. I don't know what I was expecting."
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"I went through like two bottles of them and I had to keep reaching for it over and over just because it was not hydrating my lips at all. Honestly, if you're going to spend that much on a lip balm, I would recommend the Tatcha Kisu Lip Mask that one is incredible, yes luxurious but it lasts a really long time and gives me way more hydration and moisture than the Summer Fridays one does."
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"I went through like two bottles of them and I had to keep reaching for it over and over just because it was not hydrating my lips at all. Honestly, if you're going to spend that much on a lip balm, I would recommend the Tatcha Kisu Lip Mask that one is incredible, yes luxurious but it lasts a really long time and gives me way more hydration and moisture than the Summer Fridays one does."
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"I really wanted to be obsessed with this one but I'm going to be honest guys this did like nothing for my lips moisture. I got so frustrated with using this product because I had to reapply it like five times a day and I had such high hopes because I love the founders I love the philosophy of the brand but off of experience alone I would put it in crusty dusty. But it's a pretty product and it does make your lips look nice, you know, for ten minutes that it lasts. It's not a horrible all around product but such a disappointment especially for the price point too."
Approved
"A few other lip balms that I've been a fan of are the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm."
Approved
"I love the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balms, these are so beautiful. I personally use the vanilla one the most, and I throw it on the most when I do my skincare in the morning or evening. They did recently send me the Mint one, which is actually more pleasant than I was expecting. I usually don't like mint stuff on my lips because I feel like it dries out my lips, but they did a really good job with the Mint one at keeping it fresh and not overpowering. The Mint one is actually really good after I've brushed my teeth, it's just nice to have even extra more minty freshness on the lips. But you can't go wrong with any of them."
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"I like the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm just to have -- I'll always have one in my bag."
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