Help For Perma-Chapped Lips

It's winter. It's cold. Your lips are chapped and flaky like it's nobody's business. You reach for your trusty lip balm in the hopes that it will turn your poor peeling lips into a soft, pillowy pucker.

HALT! HALT! YOU COULD BE MAKING IT WORSE!

Some of the most popular lip balms on the market (I don't want to name names, but I'm talking about the medicine-y ones you see at the checkout at the drugstore) contain an ingredient called phenol.

Phenol is evil! Undertakers use phenol to embalm corpses! Phenol actually breaks down your lip tissue and creates the dreaded "lip balm addiction." I have this on good authority from dermatologist Amy Wechsler, M.D.

May I suggest an alternative? The divine Clark's Botanicals Ultra Rich Lip Balm is Awe.Some. It's really luxurious and cushiony and smells great, and you don't have to keep reapplying it a million times. It contains shea butter and jojoba instead of nasty chemicals.

I like the ones from Badger, too. Also natural. Also no nasty chemicals.