Quote Originally Posted by ny biker View Post
Interesting. For several months I switched from regular Chapstick to a lip balm made from olive oil and beeswax, and it didn't work for me -- my lips were always chapped along the top margin, and it was worse after a bike ride.
I've recently discovered that I'm allergic to beeswax, which most "natural" lip balms use. Some Chapstick varieties include it, but the Classics (cherry, strawberry, and I think plain), don't. It usually starts by making a really chapped feeling around the edges of my lips, and progresses to a really itchy, burny, bumpy mess if I don't discontinue use soon enough. I just figured it out when Eos brand did it to me, and I compared ingredients with other ones that had the same effect and unscientifically concluded it had to be the beeswax. Sad, because I really liked the feel of it.