Cycling and dry lips

DonDaddyD
DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
edited May 2010 in Commuting chat
Sometimes when cycle (at speed) my lips tend to get dry and normally I would simply lick them. However, by chance I bought the wee'little lip threapy tin filled with aloe vera enfused vaseline. I've seen a few people with these over the years and I figured that I would give it a try*.

I've got to say that the feeling of dry (or dehydrated) lips under a film of vaseline isn't the nicest feeling.

So I ask, do you use vaseline/chapstick or do you lick your lips?

*Also I've taken to rubbing vaseline or vapour rub on the inside of the nostril to protect it from hayfever....

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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    With poll?
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Apologies
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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    there's no neither option.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,358
    Licking your lips will cause them to dry out more.

    Either MTFU and live with it or WTFU and use your lip 'products'
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  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    I use "Chapstick" (it is more manly). During the winter I would smear petroleum jelly around my eyelids to ease the chapping effect from the cold making my eyes water.

    A good source of PJ is the baby products shelves in Tescos (other supermarkets are available). A large jar at a reasonable price rather than the tiny tins and pots often sold.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Licking your lips will cause them to dry out more.

    'Lick them again' being the most obvious option...
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,358
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Licking your lips will cause them to dry out more.

    'Lick them again' being the most obvious option...

    Which dries them out further....


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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    I thought this might be another "DDD: What do girls do" thread
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  • lastant
    lastant Posts: 526
    I use Carmex.

    Can't beat it.
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    I lick my lips, but that's because most of the time I'm cycling my tongue is hanging out the side of my mouth like Labrador sticking it's head out of a car window.
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Asprilla wrote:
    I lick my lips, but that's because most of the time I'm cycling my tongue is hanging out the side of my mouth like Labrador sticking it's head out of a car window.

    :lol:
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Blistex is the shiznet.

    Not really much of a problem in the warm though but in winter i used it daily.
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  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    I only have this problem when it is below about minus five. Lip salve is very useful then.

    Until reading this thread I had no issues, now I am thinking about it and....

    Arrgh
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  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,973
    never had the problem.....begins with an "M" and ends with a "U"
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Chapstick for me, if I start licking my lips it just makes the problem worse and I eventually end up looking like I've applied lipstick in the dark :shock:

    Only get it occasionally no with no apparent reason.....
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  • Flasheart
    Flasheart Posts: 1,278
    Chapstick type thingy.
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  • dbmnk
    dbmnk Posts: 217
    don't use petroleum jelly. petroleum will enter and dissolve your cell lipids, causing your epidermal layer to malfunction and eventually you'll get even more dry.

    i have another problem that in the heat i sweat so much that the sheer amount of salt precipitating on my skin makes blisters around my eyes and mouth. quite annoying. only cure would be to cycle with a constantly running portable fresh-water shower with a 600 liters tank.
  • PinkPedal
    PinkPedal Posts: 180
    As a girly I can heartily recommend Burts Bees beeswax lip salve. You can buy it in Boots. I have super dry lips and this is the best I've found.
  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    Shea butter. Pure not 'diluted'.
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    @dbmnk: how long does petroleum jelly take to "dissolve your cell lipids"? The stuff is only applied whilst riding and gets wiped away fairly promptly.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Oh my farking god!!!!

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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    dbmnk wrote:

    i have another problem that in the heat i sweat so much that the sheer amount of salt precipitating on my skin makes blisters around my eyes and mouth. quite annoying. only cure would be to cycle with a constantly running portable fresh-water shower with a 600 liters tank.

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  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    lastant wrote:
    I use Carmex.

    Can't beat it.
    Agreed. Bit of a tingle and smells wonderful but not in a girly way.

    Also, the brand Chapstick is actually pretty good - quite gunky, tastes of nothing and smells of not much either - but that's exactly what you want as it stays put and you won't lick it off.
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  • oscarbudgie
    oscarbudgie Posts: 850
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Sometimes when cycle (at speed) my lips tend to get dry and normally I would simply lick them...........
    With poll.

    I can't believe no one picled up on that
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    oscarbudgie wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Sometimes when cycle (at speed) my lips tend to get dry and normally I would simply lick them...........
    With poll.

    I can't believe no one picled up on that


    Yeah but my "at speed" is about 763mph
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