Eco Lips Retailer News

Featured Custom Lip Balm: Earthbound Farm

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

We are excited to feature one of our newest customers: Earthbound Farm

For promotional purposes, Earthbound Farm asked us to produce a custom lip balm made with organic ingredients featuring their logo as well ours. The end result is fabulous, and we are happy to be working with this great company.

If you are interested in learning more about Earthbound Farm, please click here to visit their website.

Please check back to see our featured custom and personalized lip balm projects!

Earthbound Farm Custom Lip Balm

Eco Lips Founder Steve Shriver makes 40 under 40 list

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Natural Foods Merchandiser Magazine recently announced their 40 under 40 and Steve Shriver, Founder of Eco Lips made the list!

Here is the article:

As a harmonica player with a band that plays local, environmentally friendly benefits, along with having
run a lip-balm business for more than 10 years, Steve Shriver knows something about chapped lips. In addition to lip lube, Shriver puts his passion into eco-friendly projects.
In 2007, he began the Organic Endurathon, running marathon distances every day while stopping at schools and businesses to promote organic education. His company sponsors Team Eco Lips, a group of sports and outdoor enthusiasts, in an attempt to excite younger people about the organic mission.
Eco Lips is solar powered and expects to be completely off the grid by the end of 2008. Shriver initiated the project
by working through the Iowa Renewable Energy Association,
an initiative that turned into one of Iowa’s largest solar-power projects, gaining immediate support from the state and the local energy department.
Shriver is also a supporter of the arts and was a founding
board member of New Bohemia, an organization dedicated to building an arts and cultural district in Cedar Rapids. He spearheaded a project called Art Bikes—a kid-friendly bike ride from Eco Lips to an environmental fair at an outdoor center. He is also a consultant for the first “green” house in Cedar Rapids and part owner of Iowa-based Be Green Carpet Clean.

What are the biggest challenges facing the naturals industry?

One of the biggest things I focus on is the whole organic versus natural consumer perception. That’s one of our biggest industry challenges.

What would you like to see change in the naturals industry in the next five years?
More organic education. I’d like to see the momentum stay strong with organic regulations.
I fear that as the bigger companies start to sink their teeth into the industry, they’ll lobby for looser regulations,
which will ultimately hurt the whole industry.

What do you enjoy most about what you do?
I’m not sure there’s any industry out there that has the amount of good people working for good causes [as the naturals industry].

What’s the one natural product you can’t live without?
Larabars. I munch on those things all the time. I love them.

What keeps you going on a tough day?
I try to start every day out with a really hardcore workout and get all my adrenalin out early in the day, so that the things that would normally stress me out don’t seem like such a big deal. Also, in our new catalog I put a picture of my wife and kids. So, occasionally I whip that out and see my family smiling at me.

Got any tattoos?
I do—Buddha’s eyes. After a trip to Nepal and a fairly spiritual experience, I got the eyes of Buddha on my upper right shoulder.

If Ben & Jerry’s named a flavor after you, what would it be?
Sweet and Sour Organic Power.

click here for the complete article

Private label lip balm for your retail store.

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Eco Lips now offers a complete private label lip balm program. You can offer your customers a unique product promoting your store name, with a minimum order of only 100 pieces. This product can either be co-labeled with the Eco Lips logo, or private labeled with your custom design. Private label lip balm is a wonderful promotional or sales item and creates a lasting impression. If you are interested in private label, or custom lip balm call Mark Patterson at 866-326-5477.

For more information on private label lip balm visit our site adbalm.com

Here are a few samples of private label and custom lip balm by Eco Lips

Press Release: Eco Lips Announces New Private Labeling Program

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Eco Lips Announces New Private Labeling Program!

Cedar Rapids, Iowa (January 29, 2008) Eco Lips, Inc., America’s premium organic lip balm company, announced today a new private labeling program which offers several different options for companies and organizations wanting high quality, organic lip balm that can be used for resale, gifting or promotion. According to Steve Shriver, Founder and President of Eco Lips, “With the success of our brand in the last couple of years, an enormous amount of interest came from companies all around the world wanting a premium quality organic lip balm with their logo on it. The decision to launch the private label program will help us towards our mission to ‘change the world, one set of lips at a time’.”

The Eco Lips Private Label Program

Private Label: Eco Lips has a variety of stock lip balm formulas to choose from. Company logo and design are added.
Co-Label: Like-minded companies can enjoy the Eco Lips logo along with their own. Used for retail or promotional purposes, lip balms carrying The Eco Lips logo bring the added value of their eco, organic, and premium quality seal of approval.
Contract Manufacturing: Eco Lips’ experts can help with every aspect of a lip balm project, from custom formulations to marketing tips.

The company offers competitive pricing, low minimum orders and the highest quality lip balm in the industry. In addition, Eco Lips offers its customers peace-of-mind by donating 1% of profits to environmental non-profits and carbon offsets to those who are interested. Eventually, all lip balm will be made using 100% solar-power. Special programs for small, independent stores are available offering low minimum deals on stock formulas.

“Our sole focus has always been lip balm and with years of experience under our belts, we are ramping up our production capacity to meet the need of our growing brand and the demand for Eco Lips promotional lip balm,” adds Steve. “Private label has been thought to be difficult and expensive; we have changed that myth by making it easy and affordable for organizations everywhere.” Queries can be directed to privatelabel@ecolips.com or by calling 866-ECO-LIPS.

Eco Lips manufactures the highest quality, certified organic lip care products on the planet. With a mission of satisfying the needs of every customer, Eco Lips is making its way around the world, one set of lips at a time. The company initiated Iowa’s largest solar power project which is powering the neighborhood in which Eco Lips is located. Eco Lips sponsors Team Eco Lips, a high-powered group of athletes competing in various sports and donates 1% of its profits to non-profit environmental initiatives. Don’t panic, it’s organic! www.ecolips.com.

NEW ECO TINT DISPLAY

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Check out our new Eco Tint 36 piece display. Call to get one in your store today!