The search for the holy grail! The perfect lipbalm!

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Hello, I've been addicted to lipbalm since I was in primary school. So I am now a seasoned expert.

I have them all over the house, in every handbag, at work etc etc. But I usually have to have several cos none of them do everything!

Ideally, it would:

1. Have SPF
2. Be slightly tinted
3. Not in a tin so it gets hot and melts
4. Not in a stick so it gets hot and snaps
5. Come with a mirror. In fact, it could come in a plastic tub with a mirror on the underside of the top, like Bobbi Brown lip & cheek tint.
6. Actually be very moisturising and not irritating to lips (I recently read Blistex does more harm than good!)

Does anyone else feel my pain?!

Another Carmex fan here I have several different sticks one clear gloss and two different tint shades and I think they are fab! I also have the little tub and in winter no matter how dry my lips are at night if I put it on they are perfect by next morning.

Clarins Hydraquench lip balm is the best I have found, and I've tried them all! It's not tinted but I just put a little lipstick over it and it works like a tint. It's in a tube and contains rose oil, which I think is the differentiating factor between it and others. Can't recommend it highly enough. It cures really dry lips with just 2/3 applications.

Totally agree OP. I also have to buy some if I ever go out without any.

I love Nuxe and Korres. Also the Chanel one but that is ££££.

I have tried every lip balm in the world but can't get past plain old Vaseline. If there was a zombie apocalypse it would be one of the things I grabbed to put in my zombie survival kit.

Body shop born lippy. Plastic pot, smell amazing, and some are tinted. Can't live without them! No spf though.

Love butts bees.

And Alba too.

We need Lipbalms Anonymous!!

Elizabeth Arden 8 hour lip protectant is v good. Don't be tempted by screw top tins of it - they jam. The one like a lipstick. Comes in tinted. Honestly it is worth 10 normal lip balms (costs £20!)

These days I carry Burt's Bees and have some pink Vaseline tins around the house. Better put Elizabeth Arden on my birthday list.

I have been addicted to lip balm since childhood and swear by lypsyl which I buy in bulk from chemist direct.

Dr Bronner for me. It's moisturising and I'm not allergic to it, which are my two main lip balm criteria. Anything with lanolin or mineral oil and my lips end up a horrible blustery or cracked mess.

http://moogooskincare.co.uk/spf15-lip-balm.html

http://moogooskincare.co.uk/strawberry-tinted-lip-balm.html

I love the strawberry lipbalm, its not SPF though

I like Badger lip balms, natural with no petroleum products, and in plastic tubes. Don't think they do tinted though.

Nuxe is the only thigh that works for me. No SPF though.

I like Nuxe and Melvita, which don't tick any of your boxes, I don't think.

Burt Bees for me.

The best IMO is By Terry's Baume de Rose.

Beware of eos. I absolutely loved mine-cute packaging,natural ingredients,lovely scent and flavour. After a few weeks my lips started to crack,peel and weep-I'd never experienced anything like it. Didn't make the connection with the lip balm at first but finally realised it was the eos doing it. After googling I've discovered lots of people have experienced the same problem.

I use this now,it healed my lips really quickly-great on any dry patches of skin,cuticles,as an intense hand cream. You can get it from boots.

I was just going to recommend the Paw Paw one as well! It is sooo good. I found out about it in Mumsnet a while ago and use it all the time it even works really well under matte lipsticks.

I've just put on some Avene Cold Cream balm, it's very good.

Burts bees do loads of different tints.

I also have vast quantities of lip balms. I have Sjögren's syndrome and produce very little saliva, skin super dry and lip balms are essential.
At the moment I have whittled it down to Eve Lom (rare treat), La Roche-Posay cicaplast levres (online so usually bought at a discount), and a random one I bought from Space NK (as they were reduced and selling them for about £2 ) called Daily Lip Fix which is brilliant so I have bought loads in case they never have them again.

OP La Roche Posay and SpaceNk ones are tubes.

I could have written this post myself! I love lip balms and I am too always looking for the perfect product. I have literally almost ran out of lip balm so was debating what to try next!
I use carmex but it's not perfect, just moisturises well. I think I might give lanolips a try!
I find the body shop ones are no good but smell lovely

Korres or carmex.

Nuxe do tinted versions of their Honey lip balm in small glass pots. Haven't seem them outside France. Not glossy.

This one is amazing, if it were tinted it would honestly be my holy grail. I must track this down!!

(Though agree on the EA 8 hr one, it was my previous fave)