The Hit List: Worst Lip Balm
Posted On: 06/23/09
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I typically like all things Chapstick brand (Hello Cherry Chapstick?!?!). However, the Chapstick Smoothies lip balms are horrible. They are more drying that conditioning & leave a very thick balm residue on your inner lip that tastes gross. Ick!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I can’t stand Chapstick products usually, they feel too waxy and residue-y to me. Particularly the roll-on “hydration” one, whatever it’s called…it dries my lips out faster than anything I’ve ever put on them.
But then, I’m picky as hell about lip balms. I just found Yes To Carrots C Me Smile Lip Butters and I think I’ve FINALLY, after about four years of searching, found The One. Yay! All thanks to this website, in fact, since I’d never heard of them before stumbling across your review from last winter. :-)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Oh man I love Yes To Carrots C Me Smile Lip Butters.
SOOOO GOOD!!
Plus there Eco Friendly!!!
Peace Love && Lipstick.
XOXOXOXOXO
JordanMayTwigs.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
95% organic is definitely a great benefit, too. I need to collect more flavors; I only have the berry one right now. I want to try the citrus and mint ones.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I fourth that motion! I loooove the YTC lip butters!! I tried the berry one, and it smelled SO good and made my lips shiny, smooth, moisture-rich and pigment-ready! Yes, TRIED.. I accidentally put the cap on before twisting down the stick, and it smooshed up in the lid and ended up goingbad and smelling like camphor :(
Worst lip balm has GOT to be any Lip Smackers balm. This stuff is simply cheap let’s-play-dress-up colored waxes with a bit of emollient and artificial flavors! It slipped off in five minutes, leaving a weird line of goop on the edge between my mouth and inner lips. Blech!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Honestly I dislike all flavored lip balms from Lip Smackers to Bath + Body Works because it seems they taste better than they condition.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I don’t like ANY Lip Balms.
I find them to be too greasy.
And have that weird waxing residue left behind.
I do like .C.O. Bigalow’s Mentha Lip Products though.
Those seem to work well.
Plus they freshen your breathe!!!
Peace Love && Lipstick.
XOXOXOXOXO
JordanMayTwigs.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
ugh the vaseline lip balms make me so angry. they over moisturize and are so greasy, they get everywhere! and they are very clogging to the pores around your lips so if you are prone to chin acne, it’s your worst nightmare!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Uggh I can’t stand Chapstick. Using it dries out my lips faster than not using anything at all. And my lips peel and become pretty painful after use.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
CARMEX. The scent of it makes me want to vomit forever, and it didn’t even moisturize my lips that well. Thankfully it only cost 99 cents or whatever.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
I definitely can’t stand Carmex. Taste awful and makes me want to puke. So gross!!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I love Karmex, but it just heals, dont hidratate, and sometime it dries out my lips.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Carmex is meant to dry out cold sores. It’s not really an every day lip balm, but lots of people use it that way.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Ugh I tried this Blistex Roller Ball or something- AWFUL! It was liquidy and made my lips in worse condition than before! Also some sort of Blistex Smooth and Shine- again, too slippery so I kept pursing my lips and making them worse!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I do not know why Chapstick is so Popular! it does not heal, moisturize or anything else! maybe the flavor is nice (I like grape) but mostly of the times y prefer to use a really lip conditioner (like M•A•C´s).
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Idk why people buy a NUMBER of things! Good marketing, I guess, is the trick. For example, everybody loves Lay’s Original Classic Potato Chips, but they’re about the worst chips I’ve ever eaten in my life – greasy, too much salt, breaks in any dip and doesn’t even have a good potato flavor! Why do people buy it? It’s cheap, it appeals to kids who don’t really have an exotic, critical palette and will settle for these, it’s advertised where ever you go and its readily available everywhere. Why does everyone buy Chapstick? It’s cheap, it’s readily available everywhere and it’s widely advertised.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
MY OPINIONS EXACTLY!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Mylipstuff balms…sooo greasy (at least when i first tried them about 8 years ago)
chapstick..residue-ey, nasty, all around a waste of money
carmex…ugh, no
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Aquafina’s line of lip products are blah to me.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Aquafina as in water bottle brand Aquafina? Haha! I guess it sorta makes sense, since the goal of lip balms is to add water to your lips. LOL, Cheetos (like the cheesy snack brand) produces a Cheeto-flavored lip balm a few years back, but it was laughed off the shelves! I’m sure it tasted TERRIBLE, and nothing like the holy grail cheesy amazingness that is Cheetos ;)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I understand in concept why they would try it but I havent been impressed by what Ive tried. \n\nhttp://www.aquafinaskincare.com/product_center.asp?product_id=10014dept_id=1001
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Korres Lip Butter in Guava.
ugh ! ; seriously.
lmao; i stinks. Hate the smell.
It`s suppose to be a ‘lip butter’, but its a horrible consistansy.
Doesn`t absorb into the lips &&; doesn`t moisturize.
RantOver=]
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Korres lip butters are my favorite lip balm ever! They don’t absorb too quickly, but I use guava overnight and wake up with perfect lips every morning!
My least favorite is Yes to Carrots lip balm. I love the thought behind the product, but it’s too waxy for me, and just sits on toip of my lips all day.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
omg; yu like it ? ..
ugh that smell almost made me vomit=)
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
I really don’t even notice a smell, unless I stick my nose in the jar (which I avoid!). Maybe you just got a bad one.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Hm. I have really dry lips, I’m allergic to chem ss, and I have tried just about everything.
Lip balms that I was allergic to/had skin irritation from:
Blistex Medicated
Chapstick (I don’t even remember which one it was)
Rosebud Salve
Boscia Jujube Salve
Bourjois Balm de Nuit
Caudalie Grapeseed Lip Conditioner
L’Occitane 10% Shea lip balm
Philosophy Kiss Me
Burt’s Bees Beeswax lip balm
Burt’s Bees ResQ lip balm
Carmex
Lip balms that didn’t work/were more drying:
Burt’s Bees Pomegranate Oil lip balm
Burt’s Bees Honey lip balm
Juice Beauty Lip Trio SPF 15
Skyn Iceland Angelica Lip Repair
What actually works?
Garden Botanika Vit E lip balm
Dr. Hauschka Lip Care stick
Soapalaya Soaps Matcha Green Tea lip butter
Oiseau lip balm
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
oh my gosh, you poor thing. at least you were persistent in finding out what worked for you.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
aw man, carmex is my favorite :(
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Chapstick brand is disgusting.
Burrs bees was my hg lip balm for years until it swell up my lips.
Now, my hg lip balm is korres guava lip butter.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Blistex – ugh, and the flavors are awful tasting!
I love Labello! Soooo moisturizing ;)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
i’ll probably get a lot of heat for this one because it’s always tauted as THE best lip balm in all the magazines, but i like Catherine have super dry, sensitive lips and have tried just about everything on the market (except Catherine’s a better person than I am because I’m not listing them all here) and the absolute worst is Kiehl’s Lip Balm #1. personally, plain old vaseline works better than this stuff and it’s cheaper! (not that i recommend it ;-)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I love their other products but Kiehls lip balm is a DON’T! Great when you put it on but a second later it’s gone!!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
E45 (available in the UK) lip balm is the worst: it does not seem to moisturise my (dry) lips at all, and when the skin breaks, it collects around all the little cracks and edges, giving me nice white-streaked lips. From a distance it looks even worse – furry white lips. And by the time I saw this in a mirror I had been walking around for about an hour, sigh…
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I tried Smashboxs’ tinted lipbalm w/spf and my lips ended really dry! i like karite vanilla shea butter lip balm(whole foods grocery)and my new thang is from MAC, honey salve in a pot. My lips feel like buttah!!!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
um i guess people forgot about how horrible SMACKERS LIP BALMS are!!!!!!!!!
the only reason we ever bought them was for the yummy smells
they DO NOT moisterize they just leave an ickkky waxy feeling that you can wipe off
GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS……..
but i do love some lipblams
1) Green by nature lip butter in coconut milk …. THE BEST BALM EVER and eco friendly
2) Palmers cocoa butter stick … it can go any where and it huge and works fan freakin tastic
3) Kiehls #1 balm (similar cosistancy to vasaline but not as icky)
4) MAC TLCs
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I completely agree with you about the Palmers cocoa butter stick, it moisturizes my lips really well, it’s really cheap and it smells delicious. I used to love the body shop’s lip butter in pink grapefruit, but it does nothing to my lips. It smells fantastic though, so maybe i shall continue using them…
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Rosebud Salve makes me nauseous and it doesn’t moisturize!! Like at all…it’s like putting grease on your lips, so nasty.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
LOL, I can’t imagine putting that stuff on my lips- I use it for dry spots on the elbows of my mother’s dogs. :)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Hate hate hate Kiehl’s lip balm. It smells awful and doesn’t do anything at all, especially for its price it’s just a plain bad beauty investment. :(
the balm I love often gets bad reviews though — Nude Skincare Nude Lips. I adore this stuff. Ah well, bad reviewers can send all their pots to me. :D
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
I have a Nude one I used once & hate – if you’d like it email me! firedancer424 @ mac . com (just remove spaces)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Blistex Raspberry Lemonade Blast. Tastes like artificially flavored gum, which is not something I like in a lip balm, and made everything I ate and drank taste like it. After a while, it started irritating my lips – ended up with dry, rough patches all over.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I´m allergic to lipsmackers… anything BonneBell really.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
i hate carmex and smackers!!!! my fave though is nivea- a kiss of moisture lip balm….it really does moisturize my lips for quite some time…i tried a lot of lip balms like chapstick, burt’s bees, rosebud salve, MAC’s lip conditioner, YTC lip butters, Vintage Sister Lip Indulgence & Lickers, Lush Honey Trap Lip Balm and a lot more…they’re good but i just really love my nivea….
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
i dont like the original carmex,
but the strawberry one, i loveee
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I hate burt’s bees, soft lips and chapsticks… they are all SO drying and annoying!
My faves are rosebud salve, carmex and blistex deep renewal and silk and shine.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Nivea A Kiss of Protection – It smells mildly unpleasant, tastes awful, and leaves my lips feeling very dry. (I like the Nivea Glossy Lip Care, though.)
Burt’s Bees – I wanted to like it (so many people do), but it too left my lips feeling dry.
ChapStick 100% Naturals – I LOVE regular ChapStick, but the Naturals just didn’t work for me. It did nothing to moisturize my lips.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
I hate labello and ohhhh lush let them eat cake lipbalm….yakk…the smell, the taste, the substance, I hate it…
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
wow, to think Chapstick is one of my fav :)
I do not like Labello, they dry out my lips too much. Not a fan of Lush lipbalm either, it cost an arm, and the smell is eeeew…
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
wow im surprised many people don’t like chapstick. I love it! It’s one of my favourites. I also use blistex and labello (NOT the chalky one). Whatever is yummy or plain and comes in a lip tube NOT a squeeze or jar then I’m fine with anything. Except lip smackers, those are strictly for grade school girls.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
I hate The Body Shop lip butters…
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
I don’t like Vaseline lipbalm. in no time its all over te place, haha! I do use it when i go to sleep, just because i have it ;)
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Well, to be honest, almost every lipbalm i tried was DISGUSTING. Labello, carmex, .. You name it
Untill i discovered this little brand that is selling lip balms in tiny iron tins, with the smell and taste of vanilla and various fruits. And i completely adore it. I dont know what brand it is, it just says ‘Natural Lip Balm’
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
After trying Burt’s Bees, I finally realized how much better it is than Carmex. Carmex always made my lips more chap that I had to consistently reapply but now I found my new found love– Burt’s Bees! And it smells way better than Carmex.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The absolute worst for me are the Jello lip smackers, because they apply very thick and sticky. I love all other lip smackers, though! I liked using Burt’s Bees Honey lip balm, because of the smell, but it really dried out my lips.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Blistex- awful. my lips were MORE chapped after using the stuff. Also smelt stiflingly of old ladies
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
I absolutely hate the Artdeco lip balm. It dries out my lips and it smells and tastes awful.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
carmex..
where do you get YTC items? i notice my lips get more dry lately, and i only use lip gloss to moisten them… any recomendations?? i know everyones different.. but i like a very light.. smell-less or good smelling balm.. no grapefruits
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
I find the YTC to be very subtle in both scent and flavor. You can smell it a tiny bit, and it has a gently fruity flavor (for the berry one) rather than just tasting like chapstick, but it’s not overpowering.
I got mine at Target, a small display on the natural-cosmetics isle, bottom shelf, in a corner. Good thing I knew what I was looking for!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
I HATE burts bees
Thursday, July 9, 2009
i have always had chapped lips and they were really bad but a couple days ago i was in kansas city on a trip and we were shopping. we went into this really expensive store and most of the stuff was horrible so i, being bored, wandered into the back of the store and i found lip balm i was like what the heck ill try it. the first time i put on oiseau lip balm i knew it was working it feels funny when you put it on but it lasts for a while and it moisturizes your lips and it smells so good. i couldnt believe my good fortune my only regret is that the tin is so small and i didnt get more than one. i tried a lot of lip balm but i have to say the worst is chapstick, it always made my lips worse i cant wait to find another store that sells oiseau if you know of one email me at tiggerfieldhad4@yahoo.com i really want some more i recommend this to anyone who has a dry lip problem.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
hi for me the most bad is blistex moisture splash it dries my lips a lot! and it done so fast! and also Carmex i got it very excited thinking that it will works amazing but the smell is like gasoline!! and dries a lot but i stay with my classic chapstick strawberry.
there’s some people that carmex or any chapstick work for them but there’s some that doesn’t