Winter and your lips.

Griizelda

I use either pure Shea Butter or (recently discovered) vitamin e capsules. I had some really cheap ones from Wilkinsons - they're not very big but the oil is quite thick, so it stays on the lips a treat, It's also very shiny, so could possibly be used as a lip gloss too!

silverjay

I'm currently using Superdrug's own brand pearl lip balm. It was the only one I could find that didn't have any obvious reference to parrafin in the ingredients. Any thing vaseline/petroleum based triggers cold sores on my lips so normally I just suffer the dry cracked lips during winter but so far the Superdrug one seems to be OK.

MarzipanFish

My absolute favourite is tesco's medicated lipbalm. No idea of the ingredients though.
I find it gets rid of soreness pretty much immediately and I like the minty tinglyness.

I've heard carmex is really good but i've not got round to buying it as the tesco stuff is 2 for 97p.

I've used vaseline but i'd never go back to using it again. I don't know why so many people do.
I also love the smell of the body shop lip butters but don't actually find that they help with dryness/soreness much at all. I wish they did because they smell so tasty

renegade

DarlingDaughter wrote: »

:DEvery year my lips become chapped and/or sore, upon a recent shopping escapade, I thought I'd look at the cosmetic side of the shop. When I've come accross, after the endless amounts of lipsticks etc, the vasaline type product. I've tried vast amounts of different ones, which I still maintain my opinion of today, all to either no anvil or to a negative experience.

My ever knowledgable Mum, informed me why. Due to most of them containing mineral oil, which is found in crude oil (Just for those who aren't aware most types of crude oil are made up deceased animal remainings, normally found formed on the sea bed) What the product then does, in a nut shell, "sits" on your lips. Not adding nor taking away moisture. So are they being wrongly marketed to us? Upon a close inspection I've noticed that by a clever use of wording on packages, they can market it the product however they see fit.

Due to our ever increasingly cold weather, the tradition of chapped/dry lips continued to this year. While apply my moisturiser, being absent minded as most of us are in the mornings, I've managed to get some on my lips. By the "waste not want not" saying, and the not really caring at this time attitude, I've rubbed it in. A few minutes later the redness had subsided and they looked mostly normal again. The moisture is absorbed leaving nothing behind but lovely feeling lips.

However my moisturiser is for a younger generation of skin, I've no idea how any other moisturiser would work, used in such a way.

I just thought I'd post this for anybody with a similar issue, and to also show that certain "lip remidies" are NOT cost effective, in my experience.

My other tip for lips, addmitedly seen on TV, is to use an unused tooth brush to gentle exfoliate them. Works a treat!

I also use a toothbrush to exfoliate and include putting my moisturiser ( for mature skin) on my lips, never had a problem with dry sore lips and I am 70 yrs old!

mrsmerrygold

plain mouister i use a little bit on my lips from the docs works really well.

Daisygirl

Yuk for me re Vaseline and all the ones of this type as well, yes, they don't seem to 'do' anything but sit on the skin, ick.

I love Burt's Bees ones, both the stick ones and the one in the tin, brilliant, also if they do happen to get really dry or cracked, the Blistex medicated one (the one that used to be called Blisteze), absolutely gets my lips back to normal in no time.

I've tried some shea butter - bought a sample size but it is liquid- like and not very good for staying on the skin, think it needs to be blended with something else to be of use on the lips, maybe cocoa butter? (mmm sounds tasty anyway!).

londonsurrey

Pure shea butter is not a liquid unless heated up, so it might be that the shea you have is already blended?

valentina

I love Badger Lip and Body Balm - especially the Ginger and Lemon one

londonsurrey

I got given a Burts Bees Lip Balm.
Applied it to my chapped lips. AAARGH!
Who would put menthol in a product that's going on broken skin? Morons!

elsien

Palmers cocoa butter lip balm is the only one that does it for me - it does have mineral oil in, but seems to work better than than the nivea and other one's I've tried.