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What’s the Most Moisturizing Lip Balm that you’ve tried?

Share your pick!  And don’t forget to share why 🙂

Jack Black still remains tops for me! I really love how long it lasts and how long the hydration keeps going. I also like Hourglass’ Lip Serum/Treatment.

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Emily Avatar

Jack Black Grapefruit and Ginger is very moisturizing, and I like that it has SPF. It remains slippery on the lips though, and I prefer a lip balm that really soaks in. Burt’s Bees new Coconut Pear balm is the current winner for me. It smells great and moisturizes all day without that slippery feeling.

A Name Avatar

I like Jack Black’s as a lip balm, but the taste is horrible – I’m not licking my lips or anything, but I can still taste it somehow. :s I don’t normally have this problem with lip products.

tzwiggy Avatar

Nuxe Reve de Miel arrived in my mail box last weak, and OMFG(!!!) it completely transformed my lips! I have always had super dry lips that cracks and bleeds, no product have really helped before. Now my lips are smoooooth after just a few nightly applications!

Eesha Avatar

Well, it’s not really a typical lip balm… I love my Elizabeth Arden 8 Hours Skin Protectant. I haven’t found anything else working as well as this does when my lips are dry and chapped! However, I also like Nivea lip balms for everyday when my lips do not need much care!

Alexxxflt Avatar

Clarins -Moisture Replenishing Lip Balm
That stuff is awesome, I used to put on lip balm like 20 times a day, even very good ones. With that balm, I put it in the morning and in the evening and I’m done, it’s super efficient and moisturizing, I’m in love !!

Melle Avatar

Lanolin oil (alone or in a gloss) is tops for me, but I also enjoy using the clear Liplicious and Beauty Rush glosses. They are very moisturizing, long-lasting and provide a nice shine.

olechka Avatar

you’ve turned me onto jack black balm and I love it! Works amazing an overnight moisturizer and a pre drying lipstick balm. Even after wiping off lips still feel hydrated. I do think the formula differs a little in the different scents. The blackberry is perfect but the mint is just a little thicker and less slippy and feels just a little less moisture packed.

Amy Avatar

i wish i could try jack black but chemical sunscreens and me do not get along, ever, so i use honey house naturals lip butter, which i pick up at the spa i visit. LOVE it…banished my perpetually dry, peeling lips for good (which, to be fair, might have been caused by the aforementioned chemical sunscreens in the first place).

Lee Avatar

I don’t look for moisture from my lip balm, I want it to seal in the moisture my lips already have. So I think waxy lip balms like Chapstick work best to keep my lips hydrated. The slipperier vaseline type lip balms always wear off too fast and leave my lips dry.

Shelley Avatar

LaMer Lip balm have saved my lips. Pricey but most of the popular one’s that I love and had to stop using all contain lanolin…allergic to it. Gives me crazy bumps and hyper pigmentation (my lips literally turn black). I’m really bummed out about Bite Beauty Lip mask as initially during the first month my lips were feeling great then things got ugly soon afterwards.lol

AudreyNZ Avatar

Lucas Papaw Ointment! It’s been voted,”Most popular lip balm in Trip Advisor Travellers’ Choice Award 2014.” I would love to see a comparison of this to Jack Black lip balm which unfortunately is not available in this part of the world.

CKaiden Avatar

I like the Lucas Papaw ointmt a little more than the Jack Black. I still have 2 use a sugar scrub (from LUSH) w/either tho b/c my lips get insanely dry due 2 some meds
I have 2 take! Gotta check out this Nuxe Reve de Miel—-I’ve never heard of it til now!! 😀

Denise Avatar

I live in NZ and you can’t get Jack black here so I order it off Cosmetics Now. Am on my second tube of the stuff and I love it!

AudreyNZ Avatar

Thanks for the tip, Denise. I haven’t come across that website on my cosmetic quests. I’m sure eventually I’ll succumb to trying Jack Black 🙂

A. Mar Avatar

Nuxe Reve de Miel. I carry Lucas Pawpaw Ointment in my bag. Both are great. I was happy to finally find a good place to buy the Pawpaw Ointment online.

Annie D Avatar

I love Napoleon Perdis Auto Pilot Lip Service but it only does well if you pile the product on.

I guess, the next best thing I own would be my Nivea essential care one but I do love going the natural way & just using Coconut oil.

Chris Avatar

I love Dermstore’s Lip Quench. And cheapie Aquaphor, which solves all wintertime chapped problems. I second all the Jack Black recommendations, although I find it a little strange to wear SPF to bed, so I usually put on with the LQ or Aquaphor at night.

Stephanie Avatar

My favorite lip balm for night is Dior’s Baume de Rose. I can put that on at night and wake up with it still there. For day time, I like any of the Fresh Sugar Lip Treatments. SPF and color in one.

Ami S. Avatar

Bobbi Brown Lip Balm SPF 15 — It feels so emollient and luxurious, has sun protection, smells nice, no offensive taste, stays on my lips, and makes my lips feel plump, soft, and hydrated. In all honesty it beats By Terry’s Baume de Rose!

Helene Avatar

My favourite is Jouer essential lip enhancer conditioning lip treatment. I use it every night, and I don’t wake up with dry lips, even in the winter.
I also like S.W. Basics Cocoa lip balm. it contains cocoa butter, coconut oil and beeswax. It’s slippery, but I like that as I tend to rub my lips together a lot.
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Quinctia Avatar

I love Jack Black, of course, and I have a few others I like. Vasoline Lip Therapy, TonyMoly Snail Lip Treatment, and the two lip balms I got from Rainbow Honey when I did their mystery bags a couple of months in a row.

Scent/flavor wise, of the group, my faves are Jack Black’s Blackberry & Tea, Rainbow Honey’s Queen Bee, and Vasoline’s Rosy Lips.

Ade Avatar

Petroleum Jelly + Lanolin.
I just found that if I mix Vaseline & Lansinoh (melt them in the microwave), I’ve got surprisingly great lip balm. It’s not too slippery like plain Vaseline but not too waxy like plain Lansinoh either.
While it’s not really hydrating like my favorite lipbalm (Carmex Original Tube, Jack Black Mint & Shea Butter, La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Lèvres, Lucas Papaw Ointment, By Terry Baume de Rose, Burt’s Bees Ultra Conditioning Lip Balm), it really seals moisture on your lips.

PS: I also love to “seal” my drying lipstick with a thin layer of this mixture so my lips remain “balmy”.

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