Meet The Clean Mexican Lip Serum Made With Chile That Plumps Naturally

Forget fillers! Who needs lip filler when you can get Aora Mexico’s Acaríciame Más, $25, a spicy, 5-chile infused formula that plumps and volumizes lips, naturally. From the branding, to the packaging, and their plastic negative promise, Aora is changing the clean beauty industry, one vibrant and sustainable beauty product at time.

Born in Mexico, AORA celebrates the richness, color, and creativity of Mexican culture on a global stage, by creating clean, cruelty-free, and dermatologist-tested products. Recently recognized by BeautyMatter’s NEXT50, a curated list of 50 emerging beauty brands shaping the beauty industry, the proof is in their innovative products, like their recently released solid lip serum, Acaríciame Más, $25. Leave it to nuestra gente to use spice for beauty. The ingredients include chile ancho, habańero, guajillo, serrano, y chile de árbol for visibly plumper lips. You can feel the tingle from the chiles within moments after each application.  

I tried Acaríciame Más, and let me tell you, si pica! Aora cooked with this lip plumping recipe. Infused with peppermint oil to combat the heat, hyaluronic acid for deep hydration, squalane and castor oil to nourish and protect, and Vitamin E to lock in moisture, the product goes on smooth, for a sheer, red tint. You can easily wear with lipliner, or layer and build on its own, although I would apply with caution because it does get spicier with each application! The result: an ultra glossy, nonstick, lightweight, perfectly plush set of lips, que pican. 

Aora, which is a play on ahora que quiere decir now, is the brand’s deep desire for change. For Aora, this is an urgent call for the beauty industry to wake up to a fresh, new perspective.

Over 95% of beauty packaging is still made from plastic, mixed materials, or in sizes too small to be processed by recycling facilities. As a result, of the 120 billion plastic packaging units produced annually by the beauty industry, most end up in landfills or polluting the environment. Nothing is uglier than polluting our planet and Aora Mexico is here to change that with radical design, unique formulas, and a future where brands are responsible. For every product sold, Aora recovers 9x its weight in plastic in partnership with rePurpose Global, the world’s leading Plastic Action Platform, that combats the world’s plastic waste crisis. Instead of plastic, they turn to materials like tin, aluminum, and wood, chosen for their durability and recyclability. Their packaging is not only beautiful, it’s meant to be repurposed. Plastic could never. 

Clean beauty that’s not boring? Por favor, si. To live and express ourselves vibrantly comes second nature. Aora Mexico is redefining what clean, luxury beauty looks like with mucho color.