A girl once told me that you train your lips to need lip balm, by using lipbalm. “You start off thinking it’s just fun,” she said, “but after a bit if you stop using it your lips all shrivel up.” I chose not to believe her. I was 12 years old and devoted to pots of green, kiwi-scented slime from The Body Shop and it just seemed the correct and grown-up thing to do to apply the slime when I needed to feel correct and grown-up. I have not used a pot of kiwi-scented lip balm for probably 25 years, and I see from the website that it is no longer available, but if I really concentrate I can summon up in my mind the exact smell.
The Beauty Pie one if you’re a subscriber is excellent and incredibly reasonable. also in a lipstick stylee twist up thing so you don’t have to dunk your possibly disgusting (cleaning out chickens etc) fingers into a pot.
Dr Lip, available from spacenk, is the ultimate lip balm in my opinion. Works on dry lips like magic, never dries in the tube and has Dr in the title so you know you can trust it.
I am really enjoying the Kiehl’s lemony one at the moment but my quest for a good tinted one continues. The Arrow lip oil is quite good but is like lipgloss for hair getting stuck in it.
Smith's Rosebud Salve - the original and very best. No waxy build-up, no irritants. I have little tins of this everywhere - bedroom, handbag, work desk, side table with telly remotes.
Also did incredibly well with facial dermatitis. Slathered it on every night, it's now gone after decades.
Eucerin Aquaphor( my dermatologist suggested it) and Lucas Pawpaw for me .. I cant live without lipbalm.. I think La Mer was my biggest splurge but at 50+euros it seemed just silly ..
Hello! I found this here finally. I tried to find it from memory, and accidentally set up a reddit account, which was way off. Eventually I got the energy to check your website, which I wish I'd done in the first place. This seems great!
Ilia lip wrap lip mask definitely does something unlike a lot of other lip products. In summer I don’t need anything for my lips and in winter only sometimes. I guess my lips are not trained to need lip balm!
Im always kissing my little children so anything on my lips doesn’t last long anyway
Ahh Body Shop kiwi memories - and the Morello Cherry one! Followed by Constance Caroll rollerball gloss!
Anything with mint in just makes my lips worse a few days later. I think the lanolips stick isn’t as good as just plain lanolin. Aquaphor stick is good for me. Boring, but works.
Carmex & Molton Brown are my go-tos. Other Body Shop smells from a similar time that I can remember vividly: banana conditioner; white musk perfume; cocoa butter body lotion (no spf but we used it as sunscreen in the 80’s eek)
Can I add a shout out for By Terry Rose lip balm. It is expensive but a pot lasts almost a year. You have brought back memories of all those Body shop smells....
I was never cool enough for a Body Shop pot seeing as how the nearest branch was fifty miles away. Of course, they're everywhere now and online, etc. We used cheap dupes and unhygiencially passed them around, double-dipping and all.
Can I put a word in for Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Kiss which is a bit pricey at £15 but makes up for it in terms of, um, girth. It's twice the, oh dear, thickness of average stick lip balms and beeswax, not petroleum jelly-ish.
The Beauty Pie one if you’re a subscriber is excellent and incredibly reasonable. also in a lipstick stylee twist up thing so you don’t have to dunk your possibly disgusting (cleaning out chickens etc) fingers into a pot.
Dr Lip, available from spacenk, is the ultimate lip balm in my opinion. Works on dry lips like magic, never dries in the tube and has Dr in the title so you know you can trust it.
I am really enjoying the Kiehl’s lemony one at the moment but my quest for a good tinted one continues. The Arrow lip oil is quite good but is like lipgloss for hair getting stuck in it.
I remember having the same conversation!!!
Smith's Rosebud Salve - the original and very best. No waxy build-up, no irritants. I have little tins of this everywhere - bedroom, handbag, work desk, side table with telly remotes.
Also did incredibly well with facial dermatitis. Slathered it on every night, it's now gone after decades.
Eucerin Aquaphor( my dermatologist suggested it) and Lucas Pawpaw for me .. I cant live without lipbalm.. I think La Mer was my biggest splurge but at 50+euros it seemed just silly ..
Hello! I found this here finally. I tried to find it from memory, and accidentally set up a reddit account, which was way off. Eventually I got the energy to check your website, which I wish I'd done in the first place. This seems great!
Medik8 Mutiny is absolutely wonderous. I even give it to my son to use when he gets horrendously chapped skin around his lips.
Ilia lip wrap lip mask definitely does something unlike a lot of other lip products. In summer I don’t need anything for my lips and in winter only sometimes. I guess my lips are not trained to need lip balm!
Im always kissing my little children so anything on my lips doesn’t last long anyway
Kiehl's Butterstick for day and Buttermask overnight lip treatment. £20 a pop each and worth every single penny.
Ahh Body Shop kiwi memories - and the Morello Cherry one! Followed by Constance Caroll rollerball gloss!
Anything with mint in just makes my lips worse a few days later. I think the lanolips stick isn’t as good as just plain lanolin. Aquaphor stick is good for me. Boring, but works.
Carmex & Molton Brown are my go-tos. Other Body Shop smells from a similar time that I can remember vividly: banana conditioner; white musk perfume; cocoa butter body lotion (no spf but we used it as sunscreen in the 80’s eek)
Can I add a shout out for By Terry Rose lip balm. It is expensive but a pot lasts almost a year. You have brought back memories of all those Body shop smells....
You just need to warm the Lansinoh a bit to get it out. I blast it with the hairdryer.
I was never cool enough for a Body Shop pot seeing as how the nearest branch was fifty miles away. Of course, they're everywhere now and online, etc. We used cheap dupes and unhygiencially passed them around, double-dipping and all.
Can I put a word in for Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Kiss which is a bit pricey at £15 but makes up for it in terms of, um, girth. It's twice the, oh dear, thickness of average stick lip balms and beeswax, not petroleum jelly-ish.
PS Love what you've done with the new place!
Ah the Body Shop Kiwi pot! I agree with your pal. I think once you use it, your lips get lazy. I am anti lip gloss.