Posts with tag lip balm

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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.

When I saw this lip gloss ring, I thought to myself, "Wow! It's just like a more grown-up version of Hard Candy's old crappy plastic rings!"

Well, it looks like Urban Decay has found a better -- a much better -- way to do make-up jewelery. It's so deliciously macabre, and a fantastic change from the old glittery lip color in 25 cent plastic jewelry. I love the skull detailing and how it looks beautiful enough to hide the fact that it's really a goofy lip gloss ring.

The Poison Ring is available for a limited time at $50 and comes with three great shades of gloss, so get on this goodness!

[via: Outblush]

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?

If the fashion forecasters are right and the era of the enormous handbag is coming to a close, then you might have to rethink that veritable cosmetics counter you are carrying around in your purse.

If you have to do some space budgeting and are restricted to a few essentials, make sure that Smith's Rosebud Salve from Bigelow Chemists is one of the keepers. The salve is most commonly used as a lip balm, but I happen to have fairly dry skin, and dab the stuff on dry patches on my face and even on my hands. Sure, it has a floral fragrance, which is something I normally don't like, especially on my lips, where the idea of "eating" flowers grosses me out, but the rose scent is pretty light, and after a while, I don't notice it.

Rosebud Salve is about $6.

So it's not quite "drugstore," but at $3 a pop, the Mimi Maternity Vitamin E Stick is affordable enough to put it in the "Drugstore Beauty Queen" category. I'm not pregnant, nowhere near, in fact, but I swiped this lovely little lip balm from my sister back when she was pregnant. The Vitamin E stick is meant to be a powerful moisturizer for pregnant women who are faced with drying skin and all those other lovely things that happen to hair and skin when a growing baby is sucking your body dry of nutrients. Because it comes in a lipstick tube, you'd naturally put it on your lips, but let me tell you, if you have dry skin and fine wrinkles, you can glide this across your face anywhere. I put it under my lipgloss, at the corners of my eyes and mouth. It is awesome awesome awesome.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to find it anywhere online, even from the Mimi Maternity Store, but I am guessing that you could walk into any Mimi store and find them near the registers.

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.