Lip balm

[Mrspimplepopper]

Can anyone recommend a lip balm please?

I began taking roaccutance for my acne 2 weeks ago. Im using body shops vitamin e range which is really helping my skin. However my lips are like hell on earth. Dry, buring stinging. Im slathering vitamin e lip balm on but jeeeez im struggling, my mouths cracked and sore in the corners too.

Anyone else had similar please? What helped? Im kinda desperate

Bog standard Nivea in a blue tube is great for everyday.

Blistex Intensive Moisturiser - it's a thin cream as opposed to a stick balm but has worked wonders for me. I'm quite the lip balm collector

Blistex relief cream and Vaseline. Use them everyday because I chew my lips to bits.

Okeefes lip repair is brilliant- doesn't need constant reapplying and really helps my extremely dry lips get better!

I really like o'Keefes and burt's bees

Nuxe revel de miel.

I’ve also stocked up on Dior creme de rose as they have discontinued it by the looks of it and I wear it at bedtime and my lips are lovely in the morning. If you see it, buy it.

By Terry also do a nice rice one but not as good.

I’ve just finished roaccutane! 2 tubes of bepanthen nappy cream in the 30g tube have got me through it.

It’s been everywhere with me since February 😂 I panic if I’d cant see it.

You can use a mild hydrocortisone for the sides of the lips, very thin layer. I used Sainsburys bite and sting cream but I only had it a few times.

Stick with it, the dryness means your absorbing it all.

Agree with Blistex Relief Cream. It's the one in the metal tube with a red lid. It's medicated type stuff and really help heal cracked and bleeding lips.

For lip balm I adore Beekman 1802 it’s goat milk based and amazing. For severely cracked and dry lips I use Thompson’s Calendula Cream. Both products are wonderful and highly effective.

I used lansinoh nipple cream on my severely cracked lips just after I had my daughter, it was amazing

Ohhhhh thankyou for the advice everyone. Im going to give the nipple cream a go and the bepanthen. Fluffycloud thankyou, ill try the bite and sting cream too.

Im starting to panic that i cant cope, im on 40mg

I was on 40mg too. Month two was the worst but it’s 4 months out of a potential 80 year lifespan.

You can cope, you just need the right products to get you through the side effects.

Keep going. It’s worth it. I didn’t see results until week 12-13, suddenly my face was the same colour as my neck for the first time since I was 17 & the dryness went.

My DS is currently on this. The dermatologist told him he must apply lip balm every hour without fail... seems to help if applied religiously.

O'Keefes is very very good. As is the Palmers Cocoa butter one.

Another vote for Nuxe - the one in the pot

Also if lips are really stingy - a bit of Vagisil works a treat to numb them a bit and stops me touching/chewing them as much - with lip balm over the top

Thankyou everyone. Poptart good luck to your son.

Fluffycloud what happened in month two? Then did the side effects ease?

No the tiredness and joint pain kicked in. But it’s do-able.

Also in month two you realise your only halfway through.

I took mine with my evening meal, that way you sleep through the worst of the effects.

I always go back to the Palmers coco butter stick one.

Vaseline... on all the dry bits, even up my nose

Elizabeth Arden 8 hour stuff. A-max-ing

Blister relief cream worked a miracle when DC returned from residential with cracked lips. Seriously, worked almost immediately!

Had two courses of roaccutane and generally suffer very dry lips anyway.

Second:
Blistex Relief Cream (metal tube, red lid)
Lasinoh nipple cream

Also:
Burts bees original (for a non-messy on-the-go-alterntive to the other two)

I always recommend this one, it sorted my 6yo red to the nose chapped lips out, put it on at night and you wake up with lovely soft lips