Even Has A Coupon!
I think I have an addiction to chapstick. Bunky says there’s a chemical in it that makes you physically addicted, but I don’t know if that’s it. It’s the feel on the lips, between having chapstick on and having cracked, naked, dry lips. I realized I really had a serious problem when Sydney hid my chapstick at home and left me suffering for two days. I got some awful shea butter stuff from Bunky that actually dried out my lips and made me all white lipped like some kinda drug addict, so I decided I had to get the real deal. I went to Target and picked up the Blistex “Spa Effects” 3-pack T_T. WTF is wrong with me?!
Uplifting - invigorates with a blend of Grapefruit, Rosemary and Eucalyptus
Renewing - strengthens and fortifies with a blend of Cucumber and Melon
Relaxing - soothes and calms with a blend of Vanilla and Plum
I really like the Uplifting and the Renewing one, but the Relaxing stick makes me feel ill. Right on the front of the package was a coupon for women’s razors T_T.
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By adscion, 4/28/2005 @ 11:31 am
It’s not an ingredient in chapstick or any other lip balm that gets you addicted, or dries out your lips to force you to buy more. It’s more that a lot of people can’t help nibbling or licking their lips when it’s on, which contributes to drying lip skin. I don’t do it so I’m fine, but when the weather is dry, it’s dry.
Anyway, we can go lip balm shopping together next time! I live and die by it.
By Bunky, 4/28/2005 @ 12:50 pm
It looks like you may have a serious case of lip balm dependency. Take the Self Test:
http://www.kevdo.com/lipbalm/selftest.html
By Vivian, 4/29/2005 @ 12:58 pm
Buy softlips.
:O
And not the chapstick brand. The Softlips brand with mentholatum. They come in skinny tubes and as they were getting popular, chapstick whipped out a look-a-like packaging design. Almost identical down to the font.
But yeah… Softlips is the only brand I use these days. It goes on super smooth, tingles nicely, AND I’m not allergic to it.
By Kabitzin, 5/1/2005 @ 12:50 pm
Someone needs to open up a lipbalm/chapstick store! Thanks for all the suggestions =). I also kinda like the smell of that Burt’s Bees stuff, but I haven’t used it enough to know if it works well.
By Vivian, 5/2/2005 @ 11:16 pm
My sister had some Burt’s Bees, and I tried it– it’s even harder to get on your lips than Blistex. I dislike Blistex (aside form being alleargic) because it doesn’t roll on smoothly? In terms of application, a warm Chapstick, or any temperature Softlips is tops.
Softlips has the benefit of one thing that so far no other brand has– it isn’t sticky/tacky feeling. And because of the mentholatum, it works nicely on other places than just your lips.
I use it on my nose and dry patches on my face regularly.
Man, I sound like an advertisement.
The next best thing, imo, is to buy a small tub of.. uhm… Nivea facial cream. It tends to be a bit weird in teh texture department when it’s a new bottle– but what I generally do is tighten up the lid, and then drop it from the top of the second floor. The jolt usually kicks the cream into a nice, thick consistancy that works great if you smear it on while at home. Looks like you have food all over your mouth, but it helps with conditioning — both for lip texture AND to keep yourself from licking. XD
Has no odor, either.