Sally Hansen Healing Lip Butter Does My Lips Good

Saturday, March 7, 2009   ·   

Sally Hansen Healing Lip Butter is, hands down, the best thing that I have ever applied to my lips.

Living in Saskatchewan means that half my year is spent forging through subzero temperatures with wind chills that can dip as low as -60°C. I am very much not kidding here. It does get that cold, and I have been known to head out to the corner store during that kind of weather, and the lips suffer the consequences. On top of that, I also tend to be a lip chewer. When I am thinking or creating, I pick and chew at the skin on my lips until they are in an abysmal state.

This combination of the climate and my bad habits has had me hunting through lip care aisles in pharmacies in four different countries. I have tried all the garden variety chapsticks, ones that are herbal-based, pots of goop that smell like a medicinal chest rubs, and ones that claimed to moisturize but were no more than rapidly disappearing glosses. Some I have continued to use solely because they keep the skin from falling off my lips. Obviously, I needed something better.

It was a desperate night about two months ago when my lip actually broke open to the point of bleeding — yay, January in Saskatchewan! — when I found myself in yet another lip care section in a pharmacy, and there it was, Sally Hansen Healing Lip Butter. It was $14, which was more than twice what this cheap soul has ever paid for lip moisturizers before, but a glance around the rest of the display told me that this was the last one I had not tried, so I forked over the cash and put it on my lips as soon as I got into the car.

To be honest, I wasn't that impressed with its consistency initially. It felt overly sticky and thick at first, but after it warmed to my skin, it melted in and did its work. It offers a bit of shine without looking slimy and slick, and it is unscented, which I definitely prefer. Within less than 24 hours of using this stuff every couple of hours, my lips felt fantastic. I checked them out in the mirror, and they didn't look chapped, split, or bitten. The "Healing" part of the name does not lie. My lips looked kind of amazing.

I can safely say that this was the best $14 I have ever spent on lip moisturizer, and if the price is throwing you off, I'll have you know that this stuff is so good that I use half of what I do of any of my normal brands, so it last twice as long. It's worth it.

Labels: cosmetics/toiletries, not sponsored, thumbs up

1 comments:  Chris Hey, schmutzie! Have you tried Burt's Bees lip balm? I suffer from chapped lips and am obsessed with *always* having some type of chap coating my lips. Burt's Bees regular is da bomb & their one with pomegranate oil smells good and works just as well! I haven't tried the Sally Hansen, but it would have to be totally superior to the Burt's Bees considering the hefty price tag. Burt's Bees: $4.50 = awesome.   post a comment ~ Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom] ~ main page