Can anyone recommend a really good lip balm?

[Peaceflower]

I'm totally hooked on lip balms and always wear some. It would be my desert island item if I could choose.

Anyway, since I tried Philosophy lip balms, nothing else seems good enough. However they are very pricey (£10 for 14g tube), and I wondered if there were cheaper alternatives which are just as good? Also finding not many stores selling them.

[FakePlasticTrees]

best I've found is even more expensive - Molton Brown's one - however, it lasts forever! (Currently using a tube I bought over a year ago)

[BelleDameSansMerci]

Honestly, I think those little round pots of Vaseline are the best thing for lips. The "Rosy Lips" one is especially good!

[katiepotatie]

carmex is my fave

[mazzystartled]

I like Burt's Bees (you can get one sort with a touch of colour)
and have just bought a Rescue Remedy lip balm, its absolutely lovely

[janeite]

Gotta be Carmex or the pink Vaseline one. But I have never tried an expensive one.

[hf128219]

this is great but v pricey

[chocolatespiders]

palmers. dark choc and peppermint from boots..

[dalek]

Neutrogena in a pot - it's like Creme de la Mer

[Shaz10]

I like Blistex cream.

[Meglet]

carmex.

[jobhuntersrus]

I use just plain vasaline and tbh have not found an expensive lip balm which can beat it.

[nannyj]

I love Dr Lipp and it lasts ages.

[traceybath]

I use the by terry one that HF linked to . I use it loads and it lasts for ages.

[Peaceflower]

I knew you would come with good ideas. Mnetters are fab.

I've tried the Vaseline pots, love the packaging but find the balm slides off me.

Hf At £32, it had better be good!!!

F p t sounds expensive but lovely, only tried their bath products before.

I think a trip to a department store is due, to check out your suggestions. Thank you.

[expatinscotland]

Burt's Bees for us!

[JaynieB]

Burt Bees is good - but if your lips are sore already I find it a bit hard core! I got bought some Elizabeth Arden 8 hr cream and lip balm for a present and its really good - I'm contemplating just getting the cream again - it was more like vaseline in texture than cream, it was lovely as a lip balm and its really good on little scratches and scrapes as well.

[marenmj]

burt's bees here too! love the pomegranate one. I too am a balm addict and will not go anywhere without one. I couldn't stand the vaseline one as it made my lips even dryer. Ditto for neutregena and the blistex ones made me look hypothermic because they made my lips white! (also, they taste medicinal)

just don't get the burt's bees "honey" one because it smells like baby powder! best to go with the plain or coloured ones.

[Meglet]

yes, the minty burts bees one is nice too.

I like tingly lip balms.

[hf128219]

8 hour cream is good too but I really hate the smell and can't imagine the taste!

[AmeliaJaneAgain]

I've tried loads and loads and can't beat the Dr Hauschka one or Avon's SOS tube.

[expatinscotland]

I use this Neosporin anti-biotic ointment from the US if the lips are really bad, though.

Now and again this will happen to DD1, usually after she's had a cold.

Or Alba Unpetroleum Jelly.

[nagoo]

JaynieB has it with 8 hour cream. It's just perfect.

[pointydog]

I like burt's bees - not as greasy as vaseline one. But any one of them does the job really