lip balm, lip gloss or petroleum jelly. which one do you use?

it's really nice to use vaseline but i think i only used it once on my lips as i find that i still have dry lips (a condition i had since 1st grade). it is just amazing for i find this petroleum jelly of vaseline to be an all around. some people even use it around the house. and i wouldn't forget the very first time i became aware of it. it was because my mother used it on my baby brother and that was eons ago. vaseline had been around almost like 1892. but we all know vaseline now (this generation, i think) as a brand of moisturizing lotion that never stops innovating different formula for skin's moisturization. but way back then, my time, it was always because there was a baby in the house. at least that was then here in the philippines.

I think it was the same here. It was always a product for mothers with babies or young children. I remember my face being covered with it on a cold day! It's only in the last ten years or so I think that they've branched out into other skincare products because the basic product has consistently worked so well and been so popular.

thank you for posting. it was new information for me that there is this possibility of lips darkening because of petroleum jelly. i know some celebrity beauties like tyra banks and hillary duff uses them on their skin...

i do remember encountering that name, blistex, and it was on a fashion magazine wherein skiers were being recommended products by the mag. i think blistex is more of a balm for we all know the torturing that skiers undergo from all that cold and sun exposure .

i used to love chapstick, too, till i found out there are other brands that are really tempting to use. i did try out nivea's strawberry lip balm (and almost forgot how chapstick performs) but that variant isn't available here anymore in the philippines so i guess it's either they stopped making it or it really doesn't sell here so we stopped the importation. chapstick lip balm isn't on prominent display in stores here. i mean there are other brands that you can get hold of and read everything in it on their boxes. chapstick is just there behind the cashier. but performance wise i guess everybody in the world knows what you're talking about the moment you say chapstick .

i've never heard of that brand before but hey, that's understandable since we're on both sides of the world . it must be good. and am one with you when it comes to buying almost everything from the same brand. they're meant to deliver the same level of performance. if one product works with the same name then the other products with that same name might work too .

strawberry lip balms, whatever brands (since i've tried some) are really very very nice to use because of their delicious smell and additional bit of color .

we don't have winter here in the philippines but i wonder what my lips would need had there been one . my lips never needed anything else but lip balms. the other stuff doesn't work. guess if ever there is a winter here i'd use a stick of lip balm within three days . thanks for replying .