Review: My Lip Stuff lipbalms

Item Reviewed: My Lip Stuff lipbalms

Price/pack size: US$2/regular balm

Available at: My Lip Stuff

Ingredients:

Description: My Lip Stuff lip balm is the perfect blend of butters, oils, and beeswax to moisturize dry lips! Over 400 flavors currently available and new flavors added all the time.

Review: I fell in love with it fast, and also fell out of love with it fast.

Here’s what I like about MLS lipbalms: wide variety of ‘flavours’, fast shipping, affordable pricing, able to personalise, doubles up as a gloss.

Here’s what I don’t like about them: oily (or rather, they melt very easily in our humid climate), doesn’t really moisturize, the flavours get me on my nerves after some time.

Rating: 3/5

Would I buy again: No

 

Nivea essential lipbalm

Please contact me via email (madaboutsprees@gmail.com) if you’re an international reader interested to buy.

Review: I’m on my 2nd tube this year. I’m using Nivea Essential (the dark blue tube) and it’s really good! I never thought I’d find HG status in a drugstore brand (I’m pretty much a brand snob.. haha).

This lipbalm does not contain menthol (bad for lips), does not contain colouring, does not contain fragrance. It also does not have SPF which suits me just well cos my lips don’t take SPF well (it makes my lips dry and peel).

It goes perfectly well under lipsticks and gloss, moisturizing my lips but does not interfere with my lipsticks and gloss too.

Overall rating:

 

Lucas Papaw Ointment

Product brand: Lucas
Product name: Papaw Ointment
Product price: ~AUD$5-6 (tube) at Australian pharmacies
Product quantity: 25g tube, 75g and 200g tubs

Description (from http://www.lucaspapaw.com.au/):

Lucas Papaw Ointment may be used as a local topical application on the following.

Abscesses Boils Bruises Burns
Carbuncles Chafings Cuts Cysts
Dry and Cracked skin on hands and feet
Gravel rash Heat rash Insect stings
Mosquito bites Open wounds Pimples
Scalds Sunburn Swelling associated with injury
Splinters and thorns Tinea Whitlow

also:

Nappy Rash and Cracked Nipples
Temporary relief of the symptoms of dermatitis and eczema
Temporary relief of the discomfort of haemorrhoids by local application.

Review: After reading rave reviews of this ointment for the 2 years that I was in Australia, I finally decided to try it when I was about to graduate. Big mistake. I should have tried this product when I first went to Perth! It’s so wonderful for my dry lips and eczema patches on my body. It’s up there, sharing HG status with Smith’s Rosebud Salve (which I’ve now neglected).

Texture is a thick oily texture in humid weather, a balmy texture in cold weather. It is easy to apply and lasts a long time. Its antiseptic properties makes it suitable for every skin problem you can think of! A huge 25g tube lasts a long time too.