Winter and your lips.

Daisygirl

londonsurrey wrote: »

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

It is solid in the tin, but the moment it goes on my lips (or fingertips!) it goes to a liquid.

I just checked the ingredients - it contains Virgin Shea Butter, Golden jojoba oil, organic calendula oil, organic chamomile oil!

Would that be why then - mixture of different oils?

londonsurrey

Yes, the mixture will make it more liquid.

Shea butter liquifies at around body temperature, but the more the mixture has of the other oils you mention, the more liquidy it will become, as those oils are liquids at room temperature anyhow.

So if you want something less liquidy, you could try things like pure shea butter, pure cocoa butter, or try mixing in those pure ones in with what you have.


Attacking the problem from another angle, have you tried increasing your intake of fruit and veg? You'll then be sorting out your skin from the inside.

I have a chapped lip problem too, and notice that I drastically reduce my intake of fruit when it becomes cold (fruit are not a warm food, are more expensive in winter, etc), which doesn't help at the precise moment when rooms and cars are filled with warm drying air!

DarlingDaughter

RealButter wrote: »

I used to have constantly dry, chapped, flaky lips and would use lip balm all year round to "help". One day I decided that seeing as my lips were still so dry I'd stop using it all, and my lips have never been better! They do sometimes still get a little dry but I simply leave them alone and they get better on their own. I wouldn't recommend lip balm / vaseline to anyone for dry lips.

It's intresting you say that, I've ceased use of any "lip thearapy"and my lips are the best they've been. I'll have to wait for the wind to kick in. :rotfl:

DarlingDaughter

Thank you to everybody for their different view's! I'm quite pleased to how big this thread has become :j

oldandhappy

I found blistex intensive moisturiser really good if your out on a windy day walking like we do by the beach with that salty air.It does not say on the tube what is in it ..maybe it was on the packet. Will take a note when I buy some next time. Dianne

tiddlyteri

I like vaseline and carmex. carmex does last a long time and i found it is very popular thereofere it must work ;-) hope this helps :-)

Beenie

There's nothing wrong with Vaseline! I agree it's not really a moisturiser as it has no water in it, but it sits on top of your skin holding in any moisture and protecting the skin which allows it to heal.

If you have been unfortunate enough to need plastic surgery (I have) you will know that the medical recommendation is to use vaseline products as they are tried and tested over many decades, really work and are universally cheap. The cosmetic industry hates this as it wants to sell you it's grossly overinflated products so never misses an opportunity to slag off this miracle product.

missm29

Ok so i have very sore lips, what shall i use? vaseline, carmex and elizabeth arden 8hr all no good....my little boy gets very sore lips too, took him to the doctors and was told to tell him to stop licking his lips. The past few days he been taking a nivea hydro lipsalve to school, but theres little improvement, i can see its been used and hes always applying it at home.

londonsurrey

Up his vitamin C intake.

asset2004

missm29 wrote: »

Ok so i have very sore lips, what shall i use? vaseline, carmex and elizabeth arden 8hr all no good....my little boy gets very sore lips too, took him to the doctors and was told to tell him to stop licking his lips. The past few days he been taking a nivea hydro lipsalve to school, but theres little improvement, i can see its been used and hes always applying it at home.

Vaseline is the only product I've found that helps my lips. I've found other lip balms make them more dry and sore