Review: Carmex Tube Lip Balm
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free skin care · Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:58 pm

I picked this up today for about $3 CA. I mentioned in another thread that I liked Carmex, it's mosly vaseline which helps my lips retain moisture. I don't know when I used this last (must have been many years ago) but today I put it on and was instantly repulsed, the scent/flavour is really, really awful. It tasted like synthetic flowers and mint. I usually don't like minty balms but it was the flavour that did me in. In the trash it goes. I still can't get the taste out of my mouth.

Ingredients:
petrolatum, lanolin, mineral oil, cocoa butter, camphor, menthol, salicylic acid, phenol, fragrance in a wax base.

free skin care · Thu Apr 20, 2006 12:47 am

Yes I agree that the taste is horrible but if you try to apply it away from the inner part of your lips then its a pretty decent lip balm that is really good if you consider its price...

free skin care · Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:53 am

Just curious are you taking about the squeeze tube or the twist up tube? I can't stand the squeeze tube one at all.. Got that when it first came out... Now the twist tube I have no problem with.. I'm a Carmex user from way back, when it first came out...

free skin care · Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:54 am

I've kind of graduated on to other lip balms, but when I was younger, Carmex was the only one for me! IMHO, back then none of them beat the orig Carmex in the screw-top jar.

free skin care · Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:56 am

We must be on the same wave link becuase I bought this stuff too. It made me break out around my mouth! That is the one area on my face that has not broken out....not anymore. I threw that out QUICKLY!!!

Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:47 am

I started off using Carmex in the little jar (the only type of Carmex available in Australia AFAIK) but then bought a few of the tubes when I ordered something off dermstore. I like this as a lipstick base and I am a big fan of minty/tingly lip balms. To be honest I can't really detect any odd taste to it (I just put it on) it just tastes like mint and smell like mint (although somehow synthetic) as well.

Btw, did anybody else also get the impression that the Carmex in the jar was more moisturising than the tubes?

I also have the squeze tube of Carmex - the only place I ever use this is in the car. It's the only lip balm that I have that I don't have to worry about melting and oozing out of its packaging when left in the car. Not my favorite balm though.

free skin care · Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:30 am

I agree Mabsy, the original Carmex in the jar is by far the BEST! absolutly more moisturizing..

free skin care · Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:58 pm

Wow, I'm surprised so many like it! It was the squeeze tube. I think my main problem was that I wasn't expecting the taste, I'm used to foody tasting balms. I was eating a Danish butterhorn after I put it on and my pastry tasted like Carmex. Sad

I'm glad it works for so many, for the price and on paper it looks great! Smile

Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:15 am

Lolli wrote:

Wow, I'm surprised so many like it! It was the squeeze tube. I think my main problem was that I wasn't expecting the taste, I'm used to foody tasting balms. I was eating a Danish butterhorn after I put it on and my pastry tasted like Carmex. Sad

I'm glad it works for so many, for the price and on paper it looks great! Smile

Oh yeah - I'm not a fan of the taste of the squeeze tube one at all.

Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:55 pm

I really like the squeeze tube Carmex when my lips are really dry. It tastes yuck, but after using it consistantly my lips were much less dry.

free skin care · Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:29 pm

Olivia,

I found the same thing happens to me - I break out around my mouth from lip glosses. I had thought the carmex wasn't comedogenic though. I've read articles on mineral oil and lanolin that have said they are and aren't comedogenic, so what is it?? There's no definite answer.

free skin care · Wed May 03, 2006 8:33 am

Mabsy wrote:

Btw, did anybody else also get the impression that the Carmex in the jar was more moisturising than the tubes?

FYI: this is true of just about all lip balms that come in stick/tube form! It’s because they have to add more of the wax or other ‘hard’ substance in order to give the balm enough substance to be stiff enough to work with the twist-up lip balm tubes.

For those who’ve used both Dr. Hauschka’s lip balm in both stick and pot version, I believe you’ll find the balm in the pot is much more emollient and moisturizing. Some thing with the Jurlique lip balm, which is available in a squeeze-tube (more moisturzing) and stick-format. I’ve never been able to find the stick version of the Decleor Aromessence lip balm, but I would be willing to bet that the same is true of it, as well....

Okay, consider that the end of your “Lessons in Lip Balm” for today! Wink

free skin care · Wed May 03, 2006 8:48 am

carekate wrote:

Mabsy wrote:

Btw, did anybody else also get the impression that the Carmex in the jar was more moisturising than the tubes?

FYI: this is true of just about all lip balms that come in stick/tube form! It’s because they have to add more of the wax or other ‘hard’ substance in order to give the balm enough substance to be stiff enough to work with the twist-up lip balm tubes.

For those who’ve used both Dr. Hauschka’s lip balm in both stick and pot version, I believe you’ll find the balm in the pot is much more emollient and moisturizing. Some thing with the Jurlique lip balm, which is available in a squeeze-tube (more moisturzing) and stick-format. I’ve never been able to find the stick version of the Decleor Aromessence lip balm, but I would be willing to bet that the same is true of it, as well....

Okay, consider that the end of your “Lessons in Lip Balm” for today! Wink

Thank you, Carrie! Smile

My current fav balm, Labello SOS is in a tube but it really liquidy, easy to spread and squeeze out where as the Carmex was waxy and hard to squirt out. I just hate pots, sticking my finger in over and over. :shudder: I don't use sticks very often, they are less moisturizing.

free skin care · Wed May 03, 2006 9:02 am

Carmex was originally my fav until I started using Burt's Bee lip shimmer. Gives a hint of shimmer color along with moisture.

free skin care · Sun May 07, 2006 10:41 am

I've been using Carmex for years. I do find the one in the pot is much smoother but i keep the tube type in my purse. Nothing soothes my lips better. Works great for wind chapped & sun burned lips.

Sun May 07, 2006 11:39 am

it's worth trying, isn't it. hopefully i won't have dry lip then

free skin care · Sun May 07, 2006 1:07 pm

I am really surprised that there are so many people on the forum that love Carmex. As addicted as we all are to our expensive products. I have found nothing to work better. I have also had problems with break outs around my mouth with others so I just have stopped trying to switch. I once spilled an entire pot on a new silk skirt because it had melted in the car so now I use the tubes. Laughing

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