Our Story

We started our company with a simple mission: To make the best-ever lip balms with intriguing scents for grown-ups. 

It was an idea that started over cocktails. While drinking well-made martinis, I realized blending ingredients to make lip balm would be a lot like mixing up drinks.

As a food lover, I knew it was important to start with great ingredients; in the case of the lip balm, we started playing with organic oils and butters and golden beeswax. In a market flooded with bubblegummy scents, I wanted something more subtle, more grown-up, inspired by everything from cocktails to the seasons. Instead of using flavor oils made in a lab, we use pure essential oils distilled from botanicals. For sensitive lips, I created the best unscented lip balm you could find.

After I settled on my formulas, I needed a name. My husband, Phil, and I cycled through lots of ideas, and then one night, over dinner, he said, "What about our middle names?" And thus, Stewart & Claire was born.

An image of a woman and man in their 30s  at night sitting on a brown stoop in Brooklyn.

That's us, pretending to be Stewart & Claire, the more Brooklyn-fabulous versions of ourselves. ;) 

We launched our little company in Manhattan in 2011 and soon after moved to Brooklyn. We relocated to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where we continue to create new products and sneak in the occasional cocktail while raising our young daughter. — co-founder, Kristin Donnelly

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