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Product Description The lip balm keeps lips moisturized for 8 hours. Like all O'Keeffe's products, Lip Repair is guaranteed relief – specifically for extremely, dry, cracked lips. It is fast-absorbing, hypoallergenic, and long lasting.

Lip balm or lip salve is a wax-like substance applied typically to the lips to moisturize and relieve chapped or dry lips, angular cheilitis, stomatitis, or cold sores. Lip balm often contains beeswax or carnauba wax, camphor, cetyl alcohol, lanolin, paraffin, and petrolatum, among other ingredients.

While there are disagreements as to when the first lip balm was created (some even suppose that ear wax was used as a lip emollient), we do know that a Virginian pharmacist named Charles Fleet developed a recipe for a lip balm treatment that could help prevent dry, cracked lips during the 1890's.

O'Keeffe's Lip Repair creates a flexible barrier that moves with your lips to help keep dry, cracked lips protected from even the harshest environments. Its long-lasting formula makes it perfect for when you're on the go, providing all-day moisture in just one application.

Lip balm bases are specially formulated using 100% naturally derived ingredients including waxes, butters and oils. There are two types of lip balm bases available, one for tubes and one for pots. Lip Balm Base for Sticks - This base is hard enough for lip balm tubes.

For best results, apply O'Keeffe's Lip Repair to lips in the morning and enjoy soothing hydration and protection all day long. Choose between our unscented, cooling relief or SPF versions.

Lip balm is a cosmetic product similar to lipstick whose purpose is to prevent lip dryness and protect against adverse environmental factors. The product's characteristics are: resistance to temperature variations, pleasant flavor, innocuousness, smoothness during application, adherence and easy intentional removal.

The Emergence of Lip Balm in the United States Pharmacist Charles Brown Fleet is credited with introducing the first dedicated lip care product in the early 1880s, which closely resembled today's lip balm. This product, later called "ChapStick," became a household name.

The purpose of all lip balms, even those called salves or butters, is to protect the lips. They contain a moisturizing ingredient (such as petroleum jelly, shea butter, or lanolin) that prevents water loss.

• Best Budget. Burt's Bees Original Beeswax Lip Balm with Vitamin E & Peppermint Oil (2 Pack) Amazon.
• Best with SPF. Eos SPF 30 Coconut Lip Balm. Amazon.
• Best Organic. SuperLan Organic Lanolin Lip Balm.
• Best Nighttime. Lanolips The Original 101 Ointment Superbalm.
• Best for Sports. Everyday Humans Big Mood SPF 30 Milky Lip Balm.

Apply a non-irritating lip balm (or lip moisturizer) several times a day and before bed. If your lips are very dry and cracked, try a thick ointment, such as white petroleum jelly. Ointment seals in water longer than waxes or oils.

Here are our top seven best ingredients for lip balm:

• Cocoa Butter. Chances are: You probably have used at least one moisturizer with cocoa butter.
• Honey. Yes, honey is great for more than just your favorite teas and toast in the morning!
• Vitamin E.
• Petroleum Jelly.
• Shea Butter.
• Jojoba Oil.
• Castor Oil.

Basic lip balm recipe Simply melt three tablespoons of beeswax pellets with two tablespoons of shea butter and four tablespoons of coconut oil before stirring in 10 to 20 drops of your favourite essential oil. You can then pour this mixture into pots or tubes and leave it to cool.