Ilia Multi-Stick
by Ilia · makeup
Editor's Take
Ilia gets the useful part right: rich color, easy glide, and a plant-oil base, though synthetic dyes keep this clean favorite from being spotless.
Four-pillar formula scores
- Performance: 8.5 / 10
- Innovative Ingredients: 5.5 / 10
- Clean Standards: 9.0 / 10
- Formula Sustainability: 9.3 / 10
The Verdict
Sunflower and castor oils give the pigments smooth spread and comfortable emolliency, while beeswax and candelilla wax keep the stick stable. The technology is mostly classic balm-making, with Titanium Dioxide adding opacity and UVB-filtering function without turning this into sunscreen. Synthetic dyes are the main compromise, particularly for lip use where incidental ingestion is expected, though this is context rather than cause for alarm. Among clean color sticks, it is a strong, highly sustainable performer, not a technical breakthrough.
Is Ilia Multi-Stick clean?
DARE scores Ilia Multi-Stick by Ilia 9.0 / 10 on Clean Standards, the human-health pillar of the Formulation Architecture Model™. That reading comes from the published INCI list read as a system — preservative, fragrance and surfactant choices in context — not from flagging single ingredients in isolation.
What are the key ingredients in Ilia Multi-Stick?
The formula leads with Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil, Ricinus Communis Seed Oil, Theobroma Cacao Seed Butter, Cera Alba/Beeswax/Cire d'abeille, Candelilla Cera/Euphorbia Cerifera Wax/Cire de Candelilla, Mica. DARE reads the full INCI list below in order, so position and pairing shape how each ingredient contributes under Performance and Innovative Ingredients.
How does DARE score Ilia Multi-Stick?
Under the Formulation Architecture Model™, Ilia Multi-Stick by Ilia scores Performance 8.5 / 10, Clean Standards 9.0 / 10, Innovative Ingredients 5.5 / 10, and Formula Sustainability 9.3 / 10. Each pillar is scored from the finished formula rather than from isolated ingredient flags.
Full INCI list
Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Theobroma Cacao(Cocoa) Seed Butter, Cera Alba/Beeswax/Cire d'abeille, Candelilla Cera/Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax/Cire de Candelilla, Mica, Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Cera/Wax, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Tocopherol. MayContain (+/-): CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499 (Iron Oxides), CI 15850 (Red 7), CI 45410(Red 28), CI 19140 (Yellow 5).