Numbrrrz vs Drunk Elephant Lippe Balm

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Numbrrrz	Drunk Elephant Lippe Balm
Price	$36 for 3-pack	~$18 for 1 tube
Ingredient count	4	15+
Organic certified	Yes	No — 'clean' branding only
Key oil	Organic coconut + jojoba	Marula oil (marketing premium)
Ingredient transparency	4 simple ingredients	Complex list with proprietary blends
Value per tube	~$12/tube in 3-pack	$18/tube
Preservative approach	Vitamin E — natural antioxidant	Multiple preservatives and stabilizers
What 'clean' means	4 certified organic ingredients — nothing to hide	Avoids 'Suspicious 6' but still uses 15+ ingredients including processed derivatives
Cruelty-free	Yes — cruelty-free	Yes — Leaping Bunny certified

Why Switch to Numbrrrz?

Drunk Elephant has built a massive brand around 'clean beauty,' but their Lippe Balm at $18 per tube contains 15+ ingredients and relies heavily on marula oil — a trendy ingredient that offers no proven advantage over established oils like organic coconut and jojoba. You are paying for Sephora shelf placement, Instagram marketing, and the Drunk Elephant brand experience. Numbrrrz delivers equal or superior lip care results with genuinely organic ingredients at roughly one-quarter the price. Drunk Elephant's Lippe Balm includes marula oil, mongongo oil, shea butter, avocado oil, cranberry seed oil, and several processed derivatives. While these are not bad ingredients, the formula's complexity raises the question: are 15+ ingredients actually delivering better results than four? Research says no. The fatty acid profiles of organic coconut oil and organic jojoba oil cover the same moisturizing and conditioning functions as marula and mongongo oils. The difference is branding. Marula oil has been positioned as a luxury African botanical with exotic appeal, commanding a price premium that has more to do with marketing narrative than measurable superiority. Drunk Elephant also avoids what they call the 'Suspicious 6' (essential oils, drying alcohols, silicones, chemical sunscreens, fragrances, and SLS/SLES), which is a reasonable framework, but avoiding bad ingredients does not automatically make a formula optimal — especially when you replace them with 15+ others. Drunk Elephant deserves recognition for pushing the clean beauty conversation forward and making ingredient awareness mainstream. Their approach to avoiding common irritants is philosophically aligned with what Numbrrrz does. But where Drunk Elephant asks 'what if we avoid the bad stuff and add lots of trendy good stuff?', Numbrrrz asks 'what if we just use the essential ingredients your lips actually need?' The answer to the second question is a four-ingredient formula that costs a quarter of the price. If you were drawn to Drunk Elephant because of the clean-beauty ethos, Numbrrrz is the purest expression of that philosophy.