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kenzie · Chanel

Chapped Lips

theotherjess · Chanel

Try scrubbing off the dead skin with an old toothbrush. I like Burt's Bees better than chapstick. It has this tingly peppermint in it that always helps my lips when they are chapped.

cahabo · Kate Spade

I love chapstick! I wear it everyday and apply it several times a day. ChapStick brand in cherry. I love the smell and texture. Keeps my lips smooth and shiny. I haven't used any other brand that has had better results. Make sure you apply it thick at night and have a good layer on before you go outside so you can get your lips back to normal.

Elle · Hermes

A thick layer of Vaseline on my lips before bed keeps the chap at bay for me. Don't forget to drink plenty of water too!

kealoha · Kate Spade

theotherjess wrote:

Try scrubbing off the dead skin with an old toothbrush.

2nd this. I like Carmex to help soothe dry lips, but make sure you get the tube (non-chapstick style) & not the pot. Also, as hard as it is, don't lick your lips. I read somewhere that it actually promotes the dryness.

lynnie · Chanel

i have to use petroleum/petrolatum free products or my lips won't heal. So no rosebud salve, vaseline, chapstick, softlips, carmex, etc. It is in most chapsticks, but in a lot of what i've read, its supposed to actually dry out your lips more. I don't think everyone has a problem with it on their lips, but maybe its a huge corporate conspiracy to make your lips addicted to it. hehe. I don't know if petroleum serves just as a moisture shield, or actually moisturizes. Seriously, my lips were always chapped while i was using anything with petroleum- they only felt okay for the 20 mins or so right after i applied the chapstick.

I've had the best luck with 2 chapsticks- Kiehl's Baby (which uses up fast and is $8 a tube) or Ganache for Lips ($4 at anthro and lipmedic.com) I've bought probably 20 tubes of the ganache- i always have it in a different purse. I like choc. raspberry and choc. mint. Drinking a lot of water helps me too- i notice a difference when i have 8-9 a day versus 6-7.

dangergirl · Kate Spade

i use burt's bees lip balm

Kelly · Hermes

I second vaseline and the toothbrush scrubbing. When I'm at home, sometimes I just have huge gobs of vaseline on because of chapped lips. I like using vaseline as lip gloss even every once in a while, but the absolute best "chap stick" I've ever used is Aveeno. It's like $3.50 a tube, but I won't use anything else now that I've tried that.

jaymiek · Coach

Try Aquaphor. My derm recommended it to me some years ago and I haven't stopped using it since.

Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

Try straight vitamin e oil (it's at the drug store, but you can also find it at health food stores). I put it on at night and it makes a HUGE difference. Softlips was weird for me. It worked really well for a while, then it stopped working. I don't know if they changed their formula or it's because I moved to a somewhat more dry climate.

Deuce · Dooney & Bourke

I used to use softlips because I really liked the feel when I put it on but I soon found out that it wore off qucikly and made my lips dry and crack more than if I never put it on.
I have been using nutrogena's lipglosses. They are fabulous, make my lips feel great and I don't feel like I NEED to put it on constantly!!

ico · Dooney & Bourke

Dizzy wrote:

Try straight vitamin e oil (it's at the drug store, but you can also find it at health food stores). I put it on at night and it makes a HUGE difference.

yes! vitamin E is nothing short of a miracel.
I put it on the sides of my nose at some time that they were chapped to the point of bleeding, and I saw a huge improuvement overnight.
If you can't find the oil for expternal use, you can break one of the vitamin capsules and use that

TheLovelyLady71 · Hermes

Yeah, I've done the toothbrush thing also, works pretty good, I also like Vaseline. Burt's Bees is OK, but I love Carmex. I've also tried cocoa butter cream, works pretty good. I also HATE chapped lips!!!

ejc423 · Coach

Like JaymieK, I swear by Aquaphor. It's kind of like Vaseline, but somehow more moisturizing. Derms recommend it a lot for patients who take Accutane.
It's the only thing I can use that actually moisturizes my lips and keeps me from having to reapply lip balm all day.

Edited because I checked my tube of Aquaphor and it actually is petrolatum-based. So I don't know exactly how it is different from Vaseline. It does have lanolin in it--maybe that's what makes it so good?

-- Edited by ejc423 at 20:53, 2007-03-18

jrhampt · Kenneth Cole

I have a pot of palmer's shea butter with vitamin e that I use all the time on my lips, and sometimes even as a moisturizer at night during the winter if my skin is really dry.

Eurodaisy · Dooney & Bourke

For me, Blistex is the best.

I've had mixed results with this brand's other "chapstick"-like formulas, but the little white tube always works. I've got a bad case of chapped lips right now, and I plan on applying it throughout the day... with luck, by tomorrow, I should be back to my soft self!

Teresa · Kate Spade

bliss balm...love it.

blubirde · Chanel

jaymiek wrote:

Try Aquaphor. My derm recommended it to me some years ago and I haven't stopped using it since.

Agreed. It's my go-to when things get painful dry (lips, nose, hands even). Can't be beat, both in cost and effectiveness.

KBomb · BCBG

Vitamin E sticks available at drug stores are the BEST! I buy mine from Puritans Pride on line - all my vits actually - and they usually have BOG2 free deals. They are very cheap.

I use the stick on my lips, around my nose when it is chapped (like now from allregies), under my eyes, around my cuticles - everywhere. There are tubes all over my house, office, car in my purses. It is the best. (I have even used a few smears on my fingrers to tame fly away hair.)

Grace · Dooney & Bourke

I swear, nothing works better than cococare cocoa butter lip balm. It comes in a yellow tube and you can get it at Walgreen's for $.99. Best ever.