Chapstick Lip Salve

Especially in the winter, I have really dry chapped lips. I'm always buying, and loosing lip balms & like to have one in my bag, one in my flat etc - so I decided to try Chap Stick as it's fairly cheap & widely avaliable. Chap Stick make a few lip salves: I'll be talking about the origonal. Chapstick claim that their origonal lip salve: helps prevent and temporarily protects chafed, chapped, cracked, or windburned lips helps prevent sunburn higher SPF gives more sunburn protection Price - Around 1.50, depending where you get it. Avaliability - Most major chemists and supermarkets. Packaging - Comes in a small ...  Read the complete review

Ah...winter - just a few short months away. Frosty cars, a bit of snow, the flu season, and, of course, chapped lips. Perhaps your chapped lips are caused by cold and wind, or perhaps yours are caused by colds and flu. Whichever, they are uncomfortable, unsightly and painful. Perhaps you're very conscientious, and wear lip balm at all times when outside. Perhaps you remember to use extra balm or Vaseline when you have a cold. Well done you! If, however, you're like me, your face remains 'au natural' until such time your lips are a peeling, bloody mess. Clearly, the normal run-of-the mill waxy or 'gelly' lip balm just won't cut the mustard as it were. What ...  Read the complete review

Recently I 'found' this ChapStick lying around the place with 'Cherry' as its flavour and decided to liberate it in the cause of better, moister lips for me! I have always had to use items like this, whether its Vaseline or a Boots own lip salve I tried once to try and help my poor shrivelled up lips (: Having always suffered with dry lips since being little (could be linked to having asthma, I don't know) products like this that are easy to carry around in my pocket are great to help me when I'm outdoors. Regularly applying a lip 'stick' like this really helps keeps my lips hydrated as they are prone to splitting and cracking open, even ...  Read the complete review

All lip balms not being created equal, I have to say ChapStick is undoubtedly the best of any I've tried - and over the years I've tried a whole range of these types of products - various shops' including Boots own brand, and 'Labello' lip balm immediately come to mind. ChapStick is my personal favourite and I wouldn't be without it now. It has a good, non-grainy texture, and seems to last well once applied. It stops your lips from cracking, and if they're already cracked, soothes, and then as it's 'absorbed' prevents further damage from occurring. It's hard enough that it keeps its shape - but not so hard it's impossible to apply - and seems to soften up ...  Read the complete review

My lips are currently only surviving the miserable weather thanks to my Cherry and Apple Chapsticks, so I thought I would share my thoughts on these two flavoured versions with you. First of all, the packaging: The tube is white with a pull off lid and a branded plastic label. The Apple flavour is green and the Cherry a dark pink, with the Chapstick logo in white. Both are Bright and quite retro looking, just like it used to look when I pestered my mum to buy it me from Boots as a kid! The only problem I have had so far is losing the cap for my apple stick, so I can now only use it at home. This has probably more to do with me being clumsy, but it is worth ...  Read the complete review