Let me just say now, I love Chapstick. My family is a loyal Chapstick family. It was the first thing my dad ever bought in the US. He got a black Chapstick in the Anchorage airport on a layover during their immigration flight to the US. Daddy uses nothing else on his lips. To this day, I can’t kiss a guy who wears it because he smells like my pop.
My personal favorite Chapstick is the blue one with SPF 15. I like to keep the UV from damaging my lips.
Keep reading the Consumerist and you’ll see their readers are devotees of Burt’s Bees. My mom loves Burt’s. She started using it this past year, mostly the hand lotion because it smells good. I’ve used the lip balm before, but I could only ever find it in the tin. I keep my nails kind of long so I hated gouging the surface of it.
Lately, I’ve got a pot of Aquaphor I bought for a burn on my leg (dismounting a Ducati, another story) and I’ve been using that up. I apply it to my lips after a shower, every time I wash my hands at home, etc. It’s a huge tub. (and that’s the newer small tub!) It’s basically Vaseline with some good stuff in it for fast skin healing. No tingles, just keeps the lips protected during the dry winter months. I’m not addicted since I don’t use it in the summertime.
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Like the Consumerists, I’m a huge fan of Burt’s Bees. I have it in tubes–I also have long nails and don’t like pots.
The consumerist blog is insane. I use Carmex (I don’t have cold sores, just insanely dry skin) and it’s phenomenal. Nothing works better once your lips are crazily damaged. Period. Am I addicted? No. I joke that I’m addicted to lip balm (the act of putting stuff on mylips) and one year my friend gave me (no joke) 10 tubes of Chapstick for my birthday. But I’m not particularly picky as to what brand I’m using (not entirely true, some I like more than others). I can go weeks (and months) without using Carmex or anything else. Those people are insane.
I don’t use chapstick because I am allergic. Everytime I try to use it my lips swell up and get these little bumps that last for about 4 days. The only thing I have been able to use for years is Pucker Ups lip balm which I buy in bulk from Sally’s. I have never tried Carmex or anything else because I am afraid of having the same reaction as with Chapstick.
It is impossible to become addicted to lip balm of any kind. Those are irresponsible posts. There is no ingredient anyone is legally going to put in lip balm that would cause addiction and I don’t believe the companies are adding ingredients that will damage your lips just enough to get you to use more tubes.
Personally, I don’t go anywhere without lip balm. People reuse lip balm so much because they like the way their lips feel when they’re slick and soft and notice sooner when they’re getting dry and cracked. If you never use lip balm, you probably lick your lips dozens of times in an hour and don’t notice.
I’m totally addicted to using lip balms but mostly just because I love having non-cracked and peeling lips. Just a thing, I guess.
This thread is exactly the kind of thing I need to distract me from the boring and tedious task I should be doing.
I think it is possible to get “addicted” to lip balm in a sense, because if you constantly put oils and moisturizers on your lips, your lips stop producing as much natural lubricant.
I am another Burt’s devotee. I have gone through various stages of lip balm use, but have been using Burt’s primarily for many years. I never leave the house without it, and also keep it by the bed and in my desk drawer and in the car, in case I have a brain lapse and actually do accidentally leave the house without it.
I also like Nanak’s lip smoothie (almond flavor). I also have some hemp stuff that is okay–Happy Hempsters, maybe?
My 3-yr-old loves to get ahold of my Burt’s. He calls it “wipstick” or “wip stuff”. I have to keep it tucked under my mattress, because if it’s out on the bedside table I’m liable to find it later with tooth marks in it and the cap nowhere to be found.