Posts with tag LipBalm

Do you love Kool-Aid? How about hot chocolate? Or even candy canes? Take your favorite tasty treat and mix it into a yummy lip gloss in 3 easy steps!

We love all of the amazing independent designers out there. In order to find out more about just what makes all of these creative types tick, we present to you an ongoing segment called Indie Designer Interviews.

Next time you're in the mood to indulge your senses, try a handcrafted bath bar or lip balm from today's featured indie business, Soap That Makes Scents. These delightful handmade artisan soaps are 100% vegetarian-friendly and paraben free, and they're easy on your wallet.

We're not ashamed to admit it -- we have a slight lip balm addiction. We have tubes and tubs in all our purses, and we can't go to sleep at night without one last fix.

By now, we've gotten picky -- we like products that go on smoothly without being gloppy, and while a bit of flavor is a bonus, we don't want it to be too strong. Keeping all these things in mind, we've found a new love -- Naturally Upper Canada's Cranberry Moro Orange Lip Butter.

There are plenty of reasons to make your own lip balm. It's healthier than the more chemically processed stuff. You know just what's going in. It's easy. It'll help you go easy on your dough stacks (or lack thereof). They make a great gift. Yada, yada, yada.

Here are three tried and true recipes that we love to slave away over the hot stove for.

The phrase "I am totally addicted to X" is not uncommon in the beauty industry. In these instances, what people usually mean by addiction isn't real addiction -- it's addiction as in "I love it so much I can't stop buying it."

Putting these hyperboles aside, there are number of people I know (myself included) who claim to have an addiction to lip balm. And by addiction we mean chemically dependent in that 12-step program sort of way.

Seriously, I can't leave the house without some kind of lip moisturizer. And it isn't just about vanity -- my pout doesn't produce its own moisture anymore! Anytime I forget to put something on my lips, I end up paying for it with a painfully cracked mouth.

I only know one person who has beat the addiction, and that was by sheer crazy willpower. So I was wondering, do you know anybody with a lip balm addiction? Have they ever tried to give it up?

At my normal choice of restaurants, the farewell gift from the server is either a cheap breathmint or a fortune cookie (which I love, mind you).

But awhile back at the Blue Pointe restaurant in Atlanta, I experienced something different -- either my server thought I had terribly chapped lips or he just thought he should give something back after such an expensive meal.

The restaurant gives every patron a 0.5 ounce tube of Kiehl's Lip Balm #1, which, according to my server, is the new "cool" lip moisturizer.

The sample-size tube retails for $5.50 on Kiehl's website. I'm not sure, but I think my lips looked and felt just a little bit cooler using a lip balm from a trendy restaurant.