Natural Remedies for Healing Cracked Lips

Lanolin is the best! This was the only thing that cleared up my cracked lip problem and I still use it occasionally when my lips get chapped enough that Vaseline isn't doing the trick.

I just want to say that I just discovered this product today and I'm already in love with it! I read that the three things you want to use on your lips to heal them while allowing them to breathe.. Are lanolin, coconut oil and shea butter. I have been trapping my lips for years of being a lip balm addict, but now I'm looking to heal them. I tried coconut oil since I already had some but it's very liquidy and tends to wear off quickly. I bought pure lanolin at the grocery store today and it feels great on my lips, good texture, stays on long, and when it does wear off my lips don't feel as dry. I haven't tried the shea butter yet but for now lanolin definitely gets my vote!

I also use Lanolin cream on my chapped lips and love it! I had it in my medicine cabinet after breastfeeding. One day I realized if I can use it on dry cracked nipples, I can use it on my lips!!

I live in hot, humid South Florida so I don't have much of a problem with dry skin. However, when I go back up to the freezing north in the wintertime, the wind and cold makes my lips get chapped and sometimes I get dry, itchy skin. Lanolin oil has been a lifesaver for me! It heals my chapped lips and is also great on dry, cracked hands or rough elbows. Lanolin cream is actually very easy to find in the baby/maternity section of the drugstore, it is usually marketed as a breast cream for breastfeeding mothers (and supposedly works well for this purpose, too). It's a 100% natural oil that is from the sheared wool of sheep. A large tube will cost you around $14 but I've been using it daily on my lips for 2 years and am only through half the tube. After applying, my lips are moisturized, they heal well and they get plumper and redder. I'll never look for another lip product - this is the one! :)