I've found plain old vaseline to be as effective as anything else. Which is why my nose is very shiny right now.
I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.
Giles ,'Beneath You'
The Crying of Natter 49
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Feb 05, 2007 11:39:22 am PST #8337 of 10001
beekaytee - Feb 05, 2007 11:39:57 am PST #8338 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I use the Blistex that comes in the little blue pot like Carmex.
I find it hugely healing and am quite addictive. Can't go to sleep without it.
I have the sort of lips that peel and crack with the introduction of nearly any foreign substance. This is the only product that doesn't make my lips burn.
Jesse - Feb 05, 2007 11:40:57 am PST #8339 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That said, they just protect them until they're actually healed.
Yeah, I just use whatever store brand balm, but I use it all the time.
Ailleann - Feb 05, 2007 11:41:00 am PST #8340 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Blistex also makes a Carmex-esque medicated type in a little pot, which I lurve. (Both are petroleum based, and menthol-y.)
eta: Blistex x-post! Man I love that stuff.
Burrell - Feb 05, 2007 11:42:16 am PST #8341 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I tried Carmex in college but after a while I decided that it really wasn't helping to heal the chapped lips, at least not for me.
Whole Foods house brand? I can try that.
Honestly the last thing I tried that worked was Medela PureLan. I kid you not. But I finally ran out of the stuff and figured that I should perhaps find out if something made for lips might work better.
Daisy Jane - Feb 05, 2007 11:44:26 am PST #8342 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I like Kiehl's-which I stole from Mr. Jane because he should not have better cosmetics than I do.
Burrell - Feb 05, 2007 11:47:47 am PST #8343 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
ooh, I love Kiehl's products! I always feel too guilty to spend more than a buck or two on chapstick, but maybe that's why I haven't found one that works for me yet.
P.M. Marc - Feb 05, 2007 11:48:01 am PST #8344 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Honestly the last thing I tried that worked was Medela PureLan. I kid you not. But I finally ran out of the stuff and figured that I should perhaps find out if something made for lips might work better.
It won't, but it will be less messy.
sumi - Feb 05, 2007 11:50:51 am PST #8345 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I like Burt's Bees lip balm.
Daisy Jane - Feb 05, 2007 11:52:23 am PST #8346 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
ooh, I love Kiehl's products! I always feel too guilty to spend more than a buck or two on chapstick, but maybe that's why I haven't found one that works for me yet
This was in a little baggie of freebies a friend of ours who works at Neiman's gave us.