Eli5: where does chapstick / lip balm go?

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I’ve been in a meeting for around 4 hours and have had to reapply lip balm (I use aquaphore) about 6 times. I’m not drinking or talking, and not licking my lips. Where is it going?

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Sometimes your body does things without you being consciously aware and knowing that you did it. So licking it off, wiping it off, evaporating (less likely), rubbing your lips together can force it into your mouth and it being absorbed by your lips and body are all things to be considered.

There’s a thing an epidemiologist had said and they had quoted that “a person can touch their face up to 20 times or more an hour and be oblivious that they did it.”

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