Chapped lips

**wildWoman** · 01-22-2008, 08:45 PM

What's the best product you guys (or probably mostly gals) have found in terms of lip balm?
We're in a dry climate here and especially in the winter, smiles often turn bloody from cracked lips. I've started making my own lip balm and found it totally superior to any of the stuff I used to buy (but I always just bought the cheap stuff). It's basically olive oil thickened with beeswax, although I heat up and strain cottonwood buds and calendula flowers in the oil for their moisturizing and healing properties.
Come on out of the closet, dudes, how many of you survivor men are tinkering at the stove with flowers for their own cosmetics???

**Rick** · 01-22-2008, 08:47 PM

No tinkering necessary. Burts Beeswax Lip Balm. I bow to Burt and pay homage.

**nell67** · 01-22-2008, 08:48 PM

Yup Burts it is

**Sourdough** · 01-22-2008, 09:11 PM

"BURTS" that is one of the sounds my dog makes.

**canid** · 01-22-2008, 09:13 PM

i think that makes it three votes for...

**dilligaf2u2** · 01-22-2008, 09:18 PM

Add another for Burts! If I can not get Berts it is carmex.

Don

**Swede** · 01-22-2008, 11:19 PM

Carmex for me, but have often wondered about Burts. Can someone elaborate on the differences between them??

**Nativedude** · 01-23-2008, 12:38 AM

I mix up some Beeswax with steeped Juniper in it. The Juniper helps heal up any cracks or sores I might get. Works great!

**Beo** · 01-23-2008, 01:02 PM

spurts... errrr... I mean burts on your lips is the way to go

**Assassin Pilot** · 01-23-2008, 04:34 PM

I just get some cheap kind from the store aisles or next to the cash registers. I really don't pay that much attention to which I buy.

**tracks** · 01-23-2008, 07:21 PM

Burts bees...Good stuff...

**Rick** · 01-23-2008, 08:23 PM

AP - Dude, you are a wolf now. Wolves are particular. Do they grab just any old elk in the store aisle or next to the cash register? I think not. Stick with us, we'll raise your sights a notch.

**Assassin Pilot** · 01-23-2008, 09:23 PM

hah, alright then. I've never even heard of burt's so im gunna need to do some searching

**crashdive123** · 01-23-2008, 09:52 PM

Banana Boat Aloe Vera sunscreen lip balm (Burt's is pretty good too)

**Proud American** · 01-24-2008, 11:30 PM

Vasaline thats stuff works wonders, but I dont like puttin to much at a time cause it takes forever to asorb completely.

**Last Mohican** · 01-24-2008, 11:41 PM

My wife also uses Burts. Her hands and feet crack alot too. Burts also makes hand creams and lotions for that.

I don't have that problem though. Probably due to the Mohican ancestry on my mothers side.

**Rick** · 01-25-2008, 07:48 AM

Proud, you are so correct on vasolene. If I don't have my Burt's then a dab of vasolene from my vasolene soaked cotton balls does the trick.

**Beo** · 01-25-2008, 09:42 AM

We always put vasoline under our noses when doing a dead body run here, keeps the smell from sticking in the nostrils so you don't smell it for a few days.