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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It is being absorbed by your lips.
Cool thing I learned about chapstick/lip balm. You can get addicted to it. I grew up in a place with average humidity, and rarely used chapstick. For college I moved to a much drier climate and started using chapstick regularly, and by regularly, I mean 3-5 times an hour. I was going through a stick a week. After college I moved to a high humidity climate and noticed I still needed chapstick 3-5 times an hour. I had a friend point out that it was unusual and suggested I might be addicted. I laughed off his ridiculous statement and proudly proclaimed I could quit any time I wanted. Sure enough, within 10 minutes I was using again. Decided to quit cold turkey, had super painful chapped lips for 2 weeks before my body decided to start producing its own lip moisture again. And I’ve never touched the stuff since.
Most chapstick shouldn’t need to be reapplied so often. Their main ingredients are waxy/oily substances that slowly absorb into your skin and rub off.
Aquaphore uses a long chain fatty alcohol, called [Octyldodecanol](https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ingredients/704230-OCTYLDODECANOL/), as its [main ingredient](https://www.en.eucerin.ca/products/aquaphor/aquaphor-lip-repair-stick?gclid=CjwKCAjwzuqgBhAcEiwAdj5dRpN0gE2WejiHdkpsINLha7f5kMbxrzaALYMwoSbtW05fuC9gWReZuRoCE8EQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds).
Alcohols disinfect, but they also dry your skin out, causing you to have to reapply more often. So, it suffers from the normal chapstick issues (absorbing in and rubbing off) AND it evaporates away and dries your skin out.
You’ll have better luck with another kind of chapstick, like ones made with beeswax as their main ingredient (without any chemical ending in -ol).
It is being absorbed by your lips.
Cool thing I learned about chapstick/lip balm. You can get addicted to it. I grew up in a place with average humidity, and rarely used chapstick. For college I moved to a much drier climate and started using chapstick regularly, and by regularly, I mean 3-5 times an hour. I was going through a stick a week. After college I moved to a high humidity climate and noticed I still needed chapstick 3-5 times an hour. I had a friend point out that it was unusual and suggested I might be addicted. I laughed off his ridiculous statement and proudly proclaimed I could quit any time I wanted. Sure enough, within 10 minutes I was using again. Decided to quit cold turkey, had super painful chapped lips for 2 weeks before my body decided to start producing its own lip moisture again. And I’ve never touched the stuff since.
Most chapstick shouldn’t need to be reapplied so often. Their main ingredients are waxy/oily substances that slowly absorb into your skin and rub off.
Aquaphore uses a long chain fatty alcohol, called [Octyldodecanol](https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ingredients/704230-OCTYLDODECANOL/), as its [main ingredient](https://www.en.eucerin.ca/products/aquaphor/aquaphor-lip-repair-stick?gclid=CjwKCAjwzuqgBhAcEiwAdj5dRpN0gE2WejiHdkpsINLha7f5kMbxrzaALYMwoSbtW05fuC9gWReZuRoCE8EQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds).
Alcohols disinfect, but they also dry your skin out, causing you to have to reapply more often. So, it suffers from the normal chapstick issues (absorbing in and rubbing off) AND it evaporates away and dries your skin out.
You’ll have better luck with another kind of chapstick, like ones made with beeswax as their main ingredient (without any chemical ending in -ol).
Lots of lip balms and skin care contains stuff that feels nice for the moment but actually dry out your skin, to make you put on more. I’m lip balm addicted and the only one i can use whitout applying 6 times/hour is the ones without that, the one i have i only re-apply after eating/drinking/brushing teeth
Lots of lip balms and skin care contains stuff that feels nice for the moment but actually dry out your skin, to make you put on more. I’m lip balm addicted and the only one i can use whitout applying 6 times/hour is the ones without that, the one i have i only re-apply after eating/drinking/brushing teeth
Everyone in here is saying it is absorbed like lotion, in fact neither are! It feels that way when you apply them but it’s really just thinning out. That’s why just a small amount of lotion can coat your hands.
Your skin has many layers, and water works its way up from the inner layers to the outer layers. You feel dry at times because that water evaporates. This is why you feel dryer when the humidity is lower: water evaporates faster as the humidity around you drops.
Chap stick and lotion form a protective layer over the skin that slows evaporation. They do not really absorb into you though. They don’t really go anywhere (except when you touch something, when you shower, etc.)
You’re probably essentially eating the chap stick slowly! Your likely ingesting a little if it with every sip of water. Your skin is constantly shedding too and in the case of chap stick you’re probably also slowly ingesting it from that throughout the day.
Most chapstick shouldn’t need to be reapplied so often. Their main ingredients are waxy/oily substances that slowly absorb into your skin and rub off.
Aquaphore uses a long chain fatty alcohol, called [Octyldodecanol](https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ingredients/704230-OCTYLDODECANOL/), as its [main ingredient](https://www.en.eucerin.ca/products/aquaphor/aquaphor-lip-repair-stick?gclid=CjwKCAjwzuqgBhAcEiwAdj5dRpN0gE2WejiHdkpsINLha7f5kMbxrzaALYMwoSbtW05fuC9gWReZuRoCE8EQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds).
Alcohols disinfect, but they also dry your skin out, causing you to have to reapply more often. So, it suffers from the normal chapstick issues (absorbing in and rubbing off) AND it evaporates away and dries your skin out.
You’ll have better luck with another kind of chapstick, like ones made with beeswax as their main ingredient (without any chemical ending in -ol).
Everyone in here is saying it is absorbed like lotion, in fact neither are! It feels that way when you apply them but it’s really just thinning out. That’s why just a small amount of lotion can coat your hands.
Your skin has many layers, and water works its way up from the inner layers to the outer layers. You feel dry at times because that water evaporates. This is why you feel dryer when the humidity is lower: water evaporates faster as the humidity around you drops.
Chap stick and lotion form a protective layer over the skin that slows evaporation. They do not really absorb into you though. They don’t really go anywhere (except when you touch something, when you shower, etc.)
You’re probably essentially eating the chap stick slowly! Your likely ingesting a little if it with every sip of water. Your skin is constantly shedding too and in the case of chap stick you’re probably also slowly ingesting it from that throughout the day.
Additionally, lip balms can be physically and psychologically addictive. Physical, in the seeking of the immediate relief upon (re)application; psychological, for that “Ahhh!” moment.
Surprisingly, a possible cause of lip irritation could be the toothpaste being used. Try a milder toothpaste.
Or, diet. Love jalapeños and other spicy foods? Might be the problem right there.
Just mentioning this to point out that lip irritation doesn’t always arise from low humidity.
Might also be a too-frequent and extended playing of a game of enthusiastic smashmouth. Prolonged kissing, while quite pleasant, not only can put strain on labial membranes, but also can give rise to excessive salivary streams leading to a flooding of the chin (and/or beard) as well as a good soaking of the shirt front leading to such exclamations as “Hey, holy cow, time to build a fucking ark!” and “Admiral, shall we alert the fleet at Spithead?”
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