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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You eat it. The water mostly evaporates or is absorbed by your skin, but the wax component (it usually a blend of waxes and oils from both petroleum, bees and plant waxes) stays on the surface of your lips and by moving them around pieces end up in your mouth, tongue, hands (people touch their faces unconsciously many times per day).
Depending on what kind, your lips absorb most of it, like moisturiser.
The rest gets unintentionally eaten, or otherwise rubbed off accidentally while you eat or drink.
Depending on what kind, your lips absorb most of it, like moisturiser.
The rest gets unintentionally eaten, or otherwise rubbed off accidentally while you eat or drink.
It’s being absorbed into your lips, the same principle as lotion being absorbed into the skin.
Like others have said, it’s being absorbed by your skin because your skin is dry.
Obviously don’t know what toothpaste you use but I’ve found that switching to a toothpaste that doesn’t have sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) in it drastically reduced my need for chapstick. Before switching, I was applying it multiple times a day. Now I generally only apply before I go to sleep.
sometimes it’s forming that dreaded white crud lip line …just where the lips tend to meet…
You eat it. The water mostly evaporates or is absorbed by your skin, but the wax component (it usually a blend of waxes and oils from both petroleum, bees and plant waxes) stays on the surface of your lips and by moving them around pieces end up in your mouth, tongue, hands (people touch their faces unconsciously many times per day).
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