I bought some lip balm yesterday. Blistex Lip Tone or some such nonsense. SPF 15. I thought, "Wow, that's great, isn't it? SPF is always good!"
Then I thought, "I don't remember getting sunburned on my lips. And I don't think I've heard of anyone getting skin cancer on their lips. What's the deal? And don't I just lick it off anyway? Wouldn't it be better if the lip balm were also face balm so we'd always have some sun screen with us? A dab on the nose and at the corners of the eyes. Wouldn't that be better?"
Yes, it would be better. I don't know why there isn't an all-in-one product. Probably because people like me would want it to be fragrance free and not animal tested and so that it wouldn't clog pores. I'd also like it to have skin brightening properties to hide small imperfections.
Then there's the pricing factor. Would I pay $25 for this magical product?
I don't know. I might. Likely I wouldn't. But I should. I really should. It sounds like something I'd want. And it would all fit in a tube of a similar size as normal ChapStick.
On a somewhat unrelated note, my father can be a very frugal man. He used to get angry with us kids for losing chapstick. Or when we ate bits of our Cherry ChapStick, he got angry about that, too. Isn't this a kind of small thing to be irritated about? Sure! But consider this: He had the same ChapStick for FIVE YEARS! Five long years when he was in school. I can't imagine that he used it very often. Maybe he did. But I must say, five years is a very long time to have one tube of ChapStick.
On another unrelated note, my eighth grade math teacher was an avid skier. He was a ski instructor and a ski patrol guy and he organized the ski club at school. He used some variety of ChapStick. He used to put it on during class. His method for doing so was very interesting. Instead of moving the balmy delight across his lips, he moved his lips across the balmy delight.
We used to do impressions of him. They're still pretty funny.
Posted by dotty at April 12, 2005 10:06 PM