Favorite SPF lip balm?

[netskyblue]

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.

[ny biker]

I actually had a bad reaction to Aquaphor last fall after using it as a lip moisturizer -- it chapped the hell out of my lips to the point where they were swollen and shedding. That healed but provided an opportunity for a yeast infection to develop, which resulting in constant cracking in the corners of my mouth (angular cheilitis) and strange white bumps on my lips. During that whole mess I switched from Chapstick to the beeswax/olive oil lip balm that they sell at the LL Bean store near me. I also tried Neutrogena lip balm, and that seemed okay. Once I was able to figure out that I was dealing with a yeast infection (several doctors were unable to diagnose it correctly) and I got it under control, things were good except for the line of dry chapped skin along the top margin. Now I go back and forth between regular Chapstick and the beeswax/olive oil and things seem okay. However neither lasts long enough or has high enough SPF for long summer bike rides.