Shea Butter — Penetrates to soften dry, cracked skin Shea Butter is a plant lipid that is used as an emollient in cosmetics to moisturize and soften skin. My 3 kids and I all love Carmex, even my son who wears it at night. We received the new Ultra Smooth lip balm in the pomegranate scent and it works wonderfully like the rest. Plus living in California, even our doctors say we need sun protection every day of the year and Carmex Ultra Smooth offers SPF 15 with 80 minutes of water resistant sunscreen.
Product provided for honest review. Thanks for sharing your review of Carmex with your readers. Glad you are liking the new pomegranate flavor! There's no good evidence that lip balm is chemically addictive — in that it causes withdrawal symptoms if you stop. And there's no evidence that it dries out your lips, forcing you to use more over time. But there is reason to believe that it can be habit-forming for a smaller subset of people.
That's because a few of the specific ingredients in many balms can cause a subtle allergic reaction that can cause your lips to feel irritated, leading people to use it over and over.
Here's an explanation of how ChapStick works, how addiction can happen — and how to figure out if it's happening to you. Your entire body — including your lips — contains an uppermost layer of skin cells called the stratum corneum that acts as a barrier, stopping moisture from passing from the environment into you. Effectively, it makes you waterproof.
Under ideal conditions, this layer functions well because of a network of lipids that hold the skin cells together and prevent water from passing through. But conditions aren't always ideal. During winter, when the air is generally drier, this lipid network becomes less effective at preventing moisture loss. And your lips are especially prone to drying out for two reasons: the skin on them is much thinner than the skin that covers other parts of your body, and it contains fewer of the oil glands that produce the protective lipids.
Why do chapped lips also involve big chunks of dead, white skin? Your skin is constantly replenishing itself — with new cells being created, gradually moving outward to the surface, dying, and being sloughed off — and in order for them to be sloughed off, enzymes need to cut apart the structures holding them together.
Shari Lipner , an assistant professor of dermatology at Weill Cornell Medical College, says that due to both of these factors, " lips are definitely more prone to drying out in the winter, and it can be very uncomfortable.
ChapStick and other brands of lip balm work by adding a layer of wax over your skin, preventing moisture loss. Apart from wax, many of these balms contain numbing agents like camphor and menthol, which cause the nice tingling feeling you get when you put the balm on your lips. These ingredients are what people most often point to as the reason why lip balm might be addictive. Well, now we finally know why we are constantly dipping into our beloved Carmex and it may put you off using it quite so often.
There have been a range of theories making their way through the internet about why Carmex is so addictive, including one that it contains shards of glass; this one we can officially confirm is absolutely not true. But the real reason you might want to think your lip balm habit?
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