SQu
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Since childhood I've used lip balm constantly. I keep it on me and am very uncomfortable without it. Night and day. I live in a very dry climate but other people manage without or use it occasionally. I weaned myself off it once in my twenties, and got used to that feeling, but my lips looked like those of a very old lady and for that reason alone I started using it again. I cannot bear the feeling of dry lips. I don't like most lip balms. Most are too thin and light. Most are too fake smelling and tasting. I need a thick waxy layer but petroleum based popular ones which I used for years, now don't work because underneath them my lips feel drier than ever.
It's a saga .... as a child I used the popular petroleum based lip balms. Then I got a dramatic one off case of cold sores that blistered and left my skin raw from nose to chin. Couldn't put anything on them till that was healed up and didn't want to use the old kind again. After that I switched to a calendula cream in an 'ointment base' whatever that might be. It was a bit light but very soothing and I used it for a long time. Since then I've made my own from beeswax, coconut oil and vitamin e which I abandoned after about a year for feeling too solidly waxy. I couldn't get the right texture. I used lanolin for a few more years, and it is perfect in terms of that coated sticky thick waxy feeling, but recently it's been making my lips itchy especially on the margins and I wonder if it has some pufas that go rancid.
I've searched the forum on 'lips' and found that these could be responsible for some people's improvements:
progesterone
vitamin E
vitamin A in eggs or liver
raised metabolism
Ideally I'd like not to need that coated soothing feeling but for now I'll be happy with a lanolin texture that does not irritate my lips. In terms of the above I'm already doing all that, except progesterone and/ vitamin E actually applied to the lips not just taken. I'm having 2 eggs a day, but I'm overdue for some liver.
Anyone familiar with this kind of journey? Any suggestions? It's a little thing but it would be nice to get a breakthrough and, inspired by Dr Peat's clever progressively brewed cup of coffee, I feel a creative solution for lips could be just around the corner!
It's a saga .... as a child I used the popular petroleum based lip balms. Then I got a dramatic one off case of cold sores that blistered and left my skin raw from nose to chin. Couldn't put anything on them till that was healed up and didn't want to use the old kind again. After that I switched to a calendula cream in an 'ointment base' whatever that might be. It was a bit light but very soothing and I used it for a long time. Since then I've made my own from beeswax, coconut oil and vitamin e which I abandoned after about a year for feeling too solidly waxy. I couldn't get the right texture. I used lanolin for a few more years, and it is perfect in terms of that coated sticky thick waxy feeling, but recently it's been making my lips itchy especially on the margins and I wonder if it has some pufas that go rancid.
I've searched the forum on 'lips' and found that these could be responsible for some people's improvements:
progesterone
vitamin E
vitamin A in eggs or liver
raised metabolism
Ideally I'd like not to need that coated soothing feeling but for now I'll be happy with a lanolin texture that does not irritate my lips. In terms of the above I'm already doing all that, except progesterone and/ vitamin E actually applied to the lips not just taken. I'm having 2 eggs a day, but I'm overdue for some liver.
Anyone familiar with this kind of journey? Any suggestions? It's a little thing but it would be nice to get a breakthrough and, inspired by Dr Peat's clever progressively brewed cup of coffee, I feel a creative solution for lips could be just around the corner!