Do BALM and VEGAN BALM have the same scent and texture?

The VEGAN BALM and the BALM have the same scent, approximately, but very different textures.

The BALM has a real melt-to-the-touch quality due to the massive inclusion of shea butter in this formulation. The shea butter is also what makes BALM melt in the sun and heat -- literally "breaking" the formula, which puts itself back together during cooling if you give it a shake whole it's melted. It's a highly esoteric formulation, and no one else makes anything like it because it's so raw and primal. The only non-vegan ingredient in it is beeswax, which holds it together and adds to the raw feeling. BALM is pure moisture and it can be oily.

The VEGAN BALM has no beeswax and is much more "organized" with its formulation. There is more hold in it for hair. It does not melt in the same way as the BALM. It has the moisture but without the oiliness.

They both have the same essential oils in the same ratios for their antioxidant properties, which provide the pleasing scent. But maybe they smell a tiny bit different in the context of the whole formulation.

As background, we started with BALM and many people loved it but many asked why it wasn't vegan. So we set out to try to make it vegan. We thought it would be exactly the same, just vegan. But cosmetic formulation doesn't work that way. It ended up being very different. So we decided to offer them both. And now they each have their own following, and we sell the same amount of VEGAN BALM as BALM. Everybody seems to have the one that they gravitate to the most.

Hope this helps.