chapped lip help!

[yourhermione]

Does anyone have helpful hints for getting rid of chapped lips? My lips feel like they're peeling off in chunks. I have bloody splits and raw patches, so eating really hurts. I've tried Kiehls, Blistex, Chapstick, Bath&Body Works, Neutrogena, plain ole Vaseline...and they're still all dried out and splitty and chappy. I don't have a habit of

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[pamlin]

Didn't I send you Kiehl's lip balm? That works really really well for me.

Then again, I could be imagining it...

[yourhermione]

You did. I listed it on the things I've tried. It isn't working any more.

[pamlin]

Buh, it would help if I was actually comprehending what I was reading...

[miatawolf]

This will sound wierd but I used to use Honey butter. Local honey if I could get it. Honey fights off the bateria and butter soothes.

[saphyne]

Have you tried any cold sore remedies? Somtimes those have the most intense moisturizers. I don't men anything like Abreva, which is a spot treatment, but the sticks and the lip-balm type tubes & tubs. These are things that I have tried on cold sores in the dry crusty phase when moisture is REALLY needed:

Commercial products:
Herpecin-L
Carmex Lip Balm (white tub with yellow cap)

Herbal:
Lemon balm
Aloe

[yourhermione]

Max ate my tube of their lifeguard lip balm. The litterbox was minty fresh for a couple days. ;)

Lip balm or no, I think I'm going to get some soaps from SoapyHollow. It sounds wonderful!

[priestesm]

I have had similar lip problems in the past...I love the Burts Bees stuff. I keep a tube on my night stand and apply liberally every night before bed all year round, and then apply again right before I leave the house in the winter. I found if I do this, I get much less drying and cracking.

[fairietink]

*giggles* I bought the Burts stuff once, put it on before bed and when I awoke in the morning, I looked like Angela J. Huge lips. so much I couldn't go into work. Odd part is, I am not allergic to anything in it, just one of those weird things.

[caitriona27]

If you don't mind emailing me your snail mail to caitriona at gmail dot com I'll send you up a tube of Prada Sheilding Lip Balm. I swear by it.

Wacky has the same problem, but he's a lip licker and NOTHING is working. Carmex was, then it isn't, now the Burt's bees is working.. Dr. suggested plain old vaseline, but that didn't work either..

[caitriona27]

sorry that should be caitriona27 at gmail dot com

[yourhermione]

sent! Thanks!

[priestesm]

for us lip-lickers I think the trick is to keep something waxy on your lips almost all the time....to shield them, not just to moisturise them. The licking allows the cold to dry the lips out. Vaseline, in my experience is too thin to act as a shield.