Chapstick?

Anyone else ever notice that chapstick makes your lips MORE chapped? Like, it helps for a while, but later, it's worse than before. I had given up using it for a long time and rarely had any chapping, but the other day, they were *slightly* chapped and I used some, and now, the last few days, they've been much worse.

I wonder if it's to keep up sales of chapstick...

 

I've found that to be true with shitty chapstick. Buy some good stuff, I have some that feels as if it had menthol or something it it. It is powerful shit duuude.

 

I think that happens alot with flavored chapstick too... im always liking my lips if its a good flavor

 

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it seems like anything that's not medicated does this. I am a chapstick fanatic..i have one in every pocket of everything i own. If i dont have chapstick i might as well just call it quits, and i find that if it's cheap, which mine usually always is, as soon as it wears off, my lips feel chappy and peely and really gross. It's only for temporary relief. Bonnabell is the ultimate famous for this....but their dr pepper chapstick is just so mmmmm...... i've found the best so far is the one in the little blue jar, or the one that's in a long skinny tube...i dunno the names of anything

 

I figure it's probably better to not put shit on my lips at all. I threw my chapstick out, haha

 

I thought this at first, but it really is about what kind you use and how much it makes you lick your lips. I have a mild obsession with moisturizing everything so lip chap is a necessity for me. I recently got some hemp lip chap when I was in Alaska and it works really well. What doesn't that plant soothe..

 

There is a product i used a while back called "Bees Wax lip balm", it comes in a small container like Carmex. Tastes good too.

 

That's what it is drumminmama! Merry Hempsters, got in Alaska, love it. I let someone at my school use it one day and they said it smells terrible...pshh I think it smells lovely

 

Nothing is in Chapstick that will cause your lips to dry out. Perhaps wearing Chapstick causes you to lick your lips, which will aggravate chapped lips. Do you have any idea how many people are involved in the production, marketing, and sales of Chapstick? Do you really think they could put something in it to cause you to use more of the product, and keep it quiet?

Phillip Morris couldn't even do that...and their product is not produced by a pharmaceutical firm, which has to adhere to strict USP good manufacturing practices and receive FDA approval.

 

I love chapstick! It's never done that to me. It makes my lips all.. mosturized.

I always lose mine, though. I used to have this wicked awesome 75c one from the dollar store which was very flavorful and had, like, neon packaging, and it has been my favorite by far, but lo' and behold, it's gone. Now I have some Carmex, and I hate the taste and smell of it but I love the way it tingles.

 

I've never had chapstick do that to me before. I use this beeswax stuff that has peppermint in it, it works really well but it burns for the frist few seconds. I think it's called Burt's Beeswax, but I could just be thinking of something else.

 

I use Vaseline at home.....just straight out of the tub.
I do carry Burt's Bees with me when I go somewhere so I don't have to carry a huge tub of Vaseline everywhere I go.

 

i actually read an interesting fact in a soap book, that although skincare products (including lip products) may not specifically put things in their products to dry out lips, continuous use of topical lubricants and moisturizers causes the skin to become dependant on the product, and the skin no longer produces natural moisture.

 

just use earwax

 

Ewww....that reminds me....I read somewhere that if you are in need of chapstick and don't have any, to just rub your finger across your forehead and/or the sides of your nose and use your body's natural oil as chapstick.

Pretty interesting....I haven't actually tried it.

 

Actual chapstick does nothing for me anymore, but I live by my little tubs of carmex. My lips are so used to the external moisture that when I don't use it, they immediatly chap up. Plus I always lick my lips so when I don't have anything on them, it just acts twice as bad. I know so many people who are "addicted" to carmex or chapstick for those same reasons.

 

This is simply not true. Many people have chronic oily skin, and their skin continues to create more oils. Many other people have chronic dry skin, and will continue to have dry skin.

Your oil glands in your skin either secrete the right amount of oil, too much, or too little, but they don't really change. They are not oil sensors, just oil glands.

 

Aren't most chapped lips caused by dehydration? Whenever my lips get all dry i just drink a couple glasses of water in a row, and it works all right.