Lip Balm Addiction? Melvita may cure it

Your lips need looking after in the winter, but be careful choosing what you take care of them with. Dry and chapped lips can actually be exacerbated by constant re-application of paraffin-based lip balms. I pounced on a poor friend in the pub who was liberally applying and re-applying her lip balm at the weekend.

Lip balm addiction is very real, and harmful. The main additive in many lip balms is petroleum jelly, or a petroleum by-product such as mineral oil, or paraffin –  these coats lips and it’s  not absorbed by the skin. This means repeated re-application and your lips become reliant on the artificial moisturisers, and become unable to heal on their own.

So, instead, use something more natural, and don’t use it all the time! Try the new Melvita Honey Lips 2-in-1 Gloss Balm, which contains Beeswax, as well as Melvita’s triple honey complex, a proven synergy of active ingredients:  thyme, acacia and orange blossom. It also contains jojoba oil, and a 100% natural pearlescent to give that shine.

This formula repairs and revitalises damaged lips. If your lips aren’t dry, chapped or damaged, don’t just apply lip balm “just in case” – it does more damage than good.

Melvita Honey Lips 2-in-1 Gloss Balm, £12, melvita.co.uk, Wholefoods stores, selected John Lewis stores, and feelunique.com