ionchy
@ionchy

The weird thing is that I used to use their lip balm regularly maybe two or three years ago. up until two week ago, I carried with me a stick of Wild Cherry Moisturizing Lip Balm and used that from time to time, but very intermittently. Then last weekend I decided okay, I want my lips to be in better condition and there is an action I can take! What was preventing me from using lip balm consistently was I didn't enjoy the texture or the taste of the cherry balm, so I went back to using the original Burt's Bees lip balm.

Then a few days later my lips and the skin at the corners of my mouth were suddenly SO dry and flaky and started to crack and there was clearly something wrong, so I stopped using the lip balm. But of course I couldn't be sure that was the cause, since I started using lip balm again because my lips were getting a little dry, so it could have been that the lip balm simply wasn't helping a rapidly-worsening situation that would have happened anyway.

It's been about a week now of suffering with cracking dry skin on and around my lips and I think it's finally improving. I'm glad that I stopped using the lip balm, because then I might have been suffering for far longer, but does that mean I'm allergic to Burt's Bees...? After having used their lip balm a long time ago with some regularity??

I want to test this for science, but I also don't want to suffer through another week of peeling lips. I wonder if rubbing lip balm on my arm would tell me anything. The skin is thicker everywhere else I can conveniently access on my body so if I do get a reaction that means I'm probably certainly allergic, but if I don't that doesn't mean I'm not allergic.


ionchy
@ionchy

Here's the ingredients list for the original lip balm:

cera alba (beeswax, cire d'abeille), cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, mentha piperita (peppermint) oil, lanolin, tocopherolrosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, glycine soja (soybean) oil, canola oil (huile de colza), limonene.

and here it is for the Wild Cherry:

helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, beeswax (cera alba), ricinus communis (castor) seed oil, fragrance (parfum), prunus cerasus (bitter cherry) seed oil, lanolin, ammonium glycyrrhizate, canola oil (huile de colza), glycine soja (soybean) oil, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, tocopherol.

The only ingredients in the original not in the cwhery are peppermint and limonene, but I'm not allergic to peppermint or citrus when eaten. Maybe topically they might have different effects?


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