Lip Balm

“Okay, it's winter. And there are very definite benefits to having moist lips :)

So, I was talking to my sister and she says that frequent use of chapstick causes your lips to stop producing natural lubricants.

Okay, so before I become a crack whore of sorts to the cosmetics industry, is this true and what alternatives do I have?”

“I just let them dry up! Even with chap stick it still causes them to dry at night when sleeping sometimes.

I know that if you try not to lick them or get them wet they wont dry up.

Wipe w/ your sleeve after drinking water IT works!”

“Girls that have moist lips have benefits....:)

Crazy Mike

Hahahhahaha....:0”

“All I know is that it stopped a crack starting in my chapped bottom lip earlier this winter, and it was a big help in the extremely dry conditions in the N.D. Badlands last May. I use both Carmex and Blistex herbal/aloe sticks when the conditions call for it, but not daily certainly.”

“Works for me.

Hi RL!”

“If there are already cracks, I use the lip balm. If I'm going to be out in the extreme sun/cold/wind, I use the lip balm with sunscreen. It protects against extreme conditions. Indoors and in mild conditions if my lips get dry, I drink more water.”

“i read/heard somewhere that once you start using chapsticks that your basically doomed to be addicted to them. I know this is the case with me. I never used it as a kid, and even through most of high school...but since then..it's everyday as much as possible *starts licking lips and looking for a tube*...heh..i think i'm out..i may have to break into my backpacking first aid kit and get that tube!!”

“Banana Boat lip balm with Aloe is good stuff. Trader Joes also has some good stuff (3 pk/yellow & red container).

I used Clinique lipstick (light color) with spf for 30 days on the JMT and my lips never chapped.”

“YUMYAGOTTALOVECHAPSTICKGIMMESOME!!!!”

“chapstick is some naaaaasty crap!”

“chapstick sucks, if you put it on at night you wake up with clumps of stuff on my lips in the morning. i liked bag balm when my lips get chap.”

“last transmission should read: if "i" put it on at night.....”

“Hey baume, I thought you invented lip baume....”

“My grandfather would always say.."You know what the best thing for chapped lips is?" And his answer would be.......... "chicken sh!t"..after our looks of bewilderment..he'd say.."Well..i betcha wouldn't lick your lips anymore"”

“I like Carmex in the little tub. I also put it around my nostrils and even on my cheecks if they start chapping in winter on hikes. I don't know if I'm doomed but I do know I'm absolutely miserable without something.

Not sure I'd put it on my bag like baume 66 does though. Might be TOO tingly. LOL!”

“i loooove lip balm! in fact, right now i have on 3 different kinds at once, to reap the benefits of each! Burt's Bees for sun and wind, because it stays on for a long time; but that's a little too hard-core, so over that i use this kind that Tarpie's mom gave me that tastes like coconut; and then over that i use some pink sparkly Lipsmackers, for color! wooohoo! of course, if i had just the regular Burt's Bees, i'd only use that, but that would be too easy, now wouldn't it. i'm an addict, and proud of it!”

“Geez lyra, get help! jk”

“there are too many enablers in my life, skully! ;-)

has anyone tried Burt's Bees? it's hard to find, but when i do, mmmmm!!”

“i just use lyra to moisten my lips.”

“What a relief, lyra. I thought my 7 year old daughter was the only lip balm addict in the world. Whew, just knowing there are at least two is comforting,,,,,I think.”

“yeah, and and i just use raddy to moisten MY umm...lips...EEEEKKK!! LMAO!”

“sweet!!”

“I use Bert's Lyra. Regular (I wish they'd put some SPF in the sun/wind formula). Itz da bomb! I've also used the Rite Aid brand SPF 30 stuff and it's pretty good too.

Stuff like Carmex and Blistex has camphor (sp?), that menthol taste/feel, in it and your lips get addicted to it.

I'm all natural, baby!”

“I have used the Rite Aid SPF 30 before, but I like the taste of the ChapStik SPF 30 better.”

“"has anyone tried Burt's Bees?"

I think I saw this in the gift shop at Cracker Barrel.”

“Buddur, have you used that Zim's Crack Cream?

I have a fairly painful "crack" in the sckin on my thumb, that comes back every winter...”

“hey fritz, this was popular in Fairbanks for hands. It does work!


Dog Mushers Hand Remedy>”

“How did I miss the Baume beat me to it?!”

“Nigal, you've used Burt's Bees! I gave you some once. That's right, I share my lip balm. I have Nigal cooties.”

“sometimes i wish i wasn't addicted, because when i don't have any one me, it's like torture! and i drink like 5 gallons of water a day, so i don't know what's up...”

“Must be all that heavy breathin' in the BATHROOM.”

“dude, do you have a camera set up in Tarpie's bathroom?!?”

“GROSS!”

“that's where she takes REALLY big dumps.

no use in stankin' up her own joint, eh?”

“Ugggghhh. Thread detrioration.....must....be......sick....BLEEEEEEEEEEEECCCCCHHHHHHHHH!!!!”

“ooohhh, sheesh! :-D well, what the heck did you mean with the bathroom comment? that was the only thing i could come up with...”

“Like in the song, right?”

“I was just playing off of the 5 gallons of water comment but,I admit, not very successfully.

I've learned my lesson: refrain from using the word "bathroom" at all costs while on TT.”

“oh, i getcha! well, i DO always say that i pee like the wind, LOL!”

“Just don't pee into the wind.”

“Man Saved by Lip Balm
Wednesday, April 13, 2005


Call it the case of the lucky ChapStick.

Steven Jacobs, a physician's assistant in Brooklyn, N.Y., dropped his tube of lip balm at work last Wednesday — and bent over to pick it up just as a bullet flew through his office window, reports the New York Post.

Police and witnesses said Jacobs, 35, was working at the Ditmas Park Rehab/Care Center just before 3 p.m. when two men started arguing on the street outside.

One guy pulled out a BB gun — which prompted the other to yank out a real handgun and get off several shots.

One bullet hit the first man in the jaw. Another ricocheted and went right into Jacobs' office window just as he reached for the ChapStick.

"I thought there was car backfiring in the parking lot," said Jacobs, a former Israeli policeman. "The second shot told me I needed to stay down."

Jacobs was hit above the eye by flying glass, but the cut was not serious, and he said his injuries could have been much worse.


"There's a hole in the window over there, and seconds before, I was standing up there," he said. "I was very fortunate. God was with me, no question. If God wanted me dead, I would be dead."

The man shot outside went to the hospital, while the shooter got away.

After Jacobs' close call made the newspapers, he got a call from Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, makers of ChapStick.

"Wyeth wants to make sure that he has ChapStick available forever," spokeswoman Heather Scherman told the Post.

Jacobs was soon to receive a case of 100 ChapSticks, the beginning of a free lifetime supply.

"I'm very happy," said Jacobs. "I use it all the time."

First story”

“ha! too cool.”

“I bet I know what he's going to use as a "stocking stuffer" from now on. I say "stocking stuffer" figuratively since he's probably Jewish, based on his previous residence. I can hear it now:

"Aww, man, another tube of Chap Stick from Uncle Jacobs."

"Now Johnny, its very useful, you should thank your Uncle Jacobs."

"But Mom, I already have 10 tubes of this stuff left over from last year."
last edited: 4/14/05 10:22:35 AM”

“"oh well, still better than another top!"”