I started using lipgloss about three or four months ago... it helps keep my lips moisturized better than chapstick, and it tastes better than chapstick... applies easier too. It works for mhether it's the Juicy brand, or the Smackers brand...
I've noticed that too - but only if you become a chapstick junkie (like Napoleon Dynamite, or myself recently) because then your lips get a resistance to the chapstick.
i have no facts to base this information on, just word of mouth from a well educated person... but i was told that carmex actually has an ingrediant in it that causes lips to go dry, so this way you feel that you need to keep using more and become dependant on the product because of course when you arent using it, your lips feel the effects, they then told me that this lip balm was actually banned form certain states because of this. i have never heard anything about that but i certainly can believe they would do things like that to make you buy more because it does work, it just works soothing the problem it created.