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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Anonymous 0 Comments

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.”

Anonymous 0 Comments

Find something better than aquaphor with no alcohol. Try an eos or be kissed brand. Amazing chapstick that doesn’t dry my lips out. Avoid cheap stuff with sketchy ingredients. That’s why so many people have so many problems with chapstick drying their lips out.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.”

Anonymous 0 Comments

Find something better than aquaphor with no alcohol. Try an eos or be kissed brand. Amazing chapstick that doesn’t dry my lips out. Avoid cheap stuff with sketchy ingredients. That’s why so many people have so many problems with chapstick drying their lips out.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Find something better than aquaphor with no alcohol. Try an eos or be kissed brand. Amazing chapstick that doesn’t dry my lips out. Avoid cheap stuff with sketchy ingredients. That’s why so many people have so many problems with chapstick drying their lips out.

Anonymous 0 Comments

For those saying it gets absorbed, a sub-question: if that’s the case, why is it still on my lips after sleeping for 8 hours? I understand that while I’m awake, I’m ingesting it a lot more than when I’m sleeping, but if it gets absorbed, why is so much left on my lips in the morning?

Anonymous 0 Comments

For those saying it gets absorbed, a sub-question: if that’s the case, why is it still on my lips after sleeping for 8 hours? I understand that while I’m awake, I’m ingesting it a lot more than when I’m sleeping, but if it gets absorbed, why is so much left on my lips in the morning?

Anonymous 0 Comments

For those saying it gets absorbed, a sub-question: if that’s the case, why is it still on my lips after sleeping for 8 hours? I understand that while I’m awake, I’m ingesting it a lot more than when I’m sleeping, but if it gets absorbed, why is so much left on my lips in the morning?

Anonymous 0 Comments

I thought you were asking where does all the lip balm go that I buy? I probably have 20 tubes of the stuff but I can never find any!! It’s maddening I tell ya

Anonymous 0 Comments

I thought you were asking where does all the lip balm go that I buy? I probably have 20 tubes of the stuff but I can never find any!! It’s maddening I tell ya