Somebody is welcome to tell me I’m irrational, but my experience (which doesn’t seem to be unique) is that chapstick and lip balm can be really really habit forming—there is something about putting chapstick on that makes always using chapstick a priority—when I stopped using chapstick my lips were drying than before I started. Here are a few links. Note the big difference betwen chapstick, lip balm, and medicated lip balm though. It could easily have been all in my head (which doesn’t make it not real sadly). Not surprisingly, there isn’t some conspiracy to add irritants to them or anything, it may just be habit forming in the good old fashioned way.
http://www.lipbalmanonymous.com/is-lip-balm-addictive/http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Dermatology/Is-chapstick-really-addictive/show/239683http://www.snopes.com/business/secret/carmex.asp
Somebody is welcome to tell me I’m irrational, but my experience (which doesn’t seem to be unique) is that chapstick and lip balm can be really really habit forming—there is something about putting chapstick on that makes always using chapstick a priority—when I stopped using chapstick my lips were drying than before I started. Here are a few links. Note the big difference betwen chapstick, lip balm, and medicated lip balm though. It could easily have been all in my head (which doesn’t make it not real sadly). Not surprisingly, there isn’t some conspiracy to add irritants to them or anything, it may just be habit forming in the good old fashioned way. http://www.lipbalmanonymous.com/is-lip-balm-addictive/ http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Dermatology/Is-chapstick-really-addictive/show/239683 http://www.snopes.com/business/secret/carmex.asp