Le Mat 11 Bois de Rose Natural matte lipstick

A blend of botanicals for soft, matte lips

Le Mat is a deep, radiant, long-lasting lipstick with a high-performance formula that goes on smoothly and effortlessly (something you don’t often find with matte textures!) and feels comfortable for hours. There’s no drying effect, plus it helps to restore and maintain the very fragile ecosystem of the lips. To create this impressive formula, we selected the very best organic, natural and vegan ingredients.

Centella Asiatica. This plant has been used in traditional medicine for over 2,000 years, to improve the healing process – an ability that’s directly linked to its two main constituents: saponosides (madecas - soside, asiaticoside) and triterpenes (asiatic acid, madecassic acid). These molecules are involved in the production of collagen and fibroblasts – cells that play an important role in tissue regeneration.

Cotton oil is rich in both essential and monounsaturated fatty acids, which give it deeply nourishing, regenerating and healing properties. It helps to re-form the hydrolipidic film, while softening the skin. This oil has a dry and silky feel, and absorbs quite quickly without leaving a greasy residue.

Jojoba oil. Also known as «the gold of the Incas.» Every year, the Jojoba shrub produces numerous oily seeds, from which a liquid wax – known as jojoba oil – is extracted. Its composition is very similar to that of sebum. It protects against dehydration, reduces moisture loss, nourishes, and sinks into the skin without leaving a greasy residue. Known for its calming and repairing action, it also protects, softens, and improves suppleness.

All these ingredients come together for beautiful, kissable lips! 

More stylish and (even) more eco-friendly packaging

Inevitably, the packaging of a lipstick will become waste, but when it’s made from recycled plastic and designed to last between three months and one year (or more!), this makes it very different from single-use plastic. Both the cap and base of this lipstick’s packaging are made from 100% recycled PET, also called PCR PET (Post-Consumer Recycled PET material).

PCR is a recycled, recyclable material (it meets the Global Recycled Standard) that offers a more sustainable packaging solution. The production of PCR generates 25% fewer greenhouse gases than the production of a regular plastic material. PCR accounts for approximately one third of our lipstick packaging. The rest is made from metal – which is recyclable. Only the mechanism part cannot be recycled – for now!

We also work with a supplier who is committed to reducing water consumption. In 2016, he set up a system to recycle his wastewater, and he continues to improve this system from one year to the next (in 2019, over 250,000 liters of water were recycled). Since May 2020, our supplier has also used PV panels, which should reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 35,000 kg per year.