Lanolin

Lanolin has an emollient action that protects lips from the elements. Natural lanolin’s water- binding capacity moisturizes by locking in hydration. Restores softness and elasticity.

Camphor

Mild local anesthetic and antimicrobial agent. Helps improve appearance and symptoms of dry, chapped lips, and alleviates burning, itching, and pain associated with cold sores.

Phenol

Antiseptic germ killer also helps gently remove old, dry and peeling skin found on very chapped lips.

Menthol

Essential oil of the peppermint plant elicits cool refreshing sensation. Anesthetic properties help soothe the pain of chapped lips and cold sores.

Aloe Butter

Aloe serves as a water-binding agent for skin. It aids in rapid hydration of dry skin caused by sun burn, wind burn, and general chapping. Research has shown aloe also has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antibacterial qualities. Aloe Butter helps to keep skin smooth and supple and helps sooth burns, cuts and scratches.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E helps retain moisture, prevents skin from drying and lips from chapping and it helps to heal wounds faster. It reduces the formation of free radicals upon skin exposure to UVA rays and other sources of skin stress such as sun damage; additionally, Vitamin E increases the efficacy of other active sunscreen ingredients.

Shea Butter

Shea Butter is a plant lipid that is used as an emollient in cosmetics to moisturize and soften skin. It can be very helpful in making dry skin look and feel better because it penetrates to alleviate dry and cracked skin.

Petrolatum

Petroleum jelly, Petrolatum and Soft Paraffin are all names for the same ingredient. It is recognized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an approved Over-The-Counter (OTC) skin protectant and remains widely used in cosmetic skin care. Topical application of petrolatum can help the skin’s outer layer recover from damage (e.g., chapped lips, minor cuts and burns), reduce inflammation and generally heal the skin.

Cocoa Butter

Extracted from the seeds of the cacao plant, it offers a pleasing fragrance and excellent emollient qualties to soften, moisturize and protect dry, chapped lips.

Salicylic Acid

Salicylic acid has been used as a pain reliever since ancient times, when a simpler form of the compound was extracted from the bark of the willow tree. Also known as beta hydroxyl acid— salicylic acid improves the overall texture of lips by promoting very mild exfoliation of the outermost layer of the lip, allowing dead skin cells to slough off and enabling the other important ingredients in Carmex – menthol, camphor and phenol – to more effectively penetrate lips. Only a small amount, less than 1%, is used in many Carmex lip balm products. Salicylic acid can be found in many skin care products such as cleansers, facial creams and lotions.