Lip balm with pramoxine?

July 5, 2008 1:29 AM

Speaking of lip balm... Blistex has discontinued my favorite, their Pro Relief. It's gone from their website. The active ingredients are dimethicone 2% skin protectant, and pramoxine hydrochloride 1% external analgesic (great for chapped lips). I can't find any other chapsticks with pramoxine in it... it seems to be mostly in cold sore cream.

Do you know of any other chapsticks or lip balms with pramoxine in them? Neosporin has a twice-as-expensive "Lip Treatment" that isn't in convenient stick form.

I emailed Blistex to ask if they were coming out with a similar product and they never replied. In the meantime, I picked up a 24-pack of Pro Relief on Amazon, but it won't last forever.

posted by IndigoRain to Health & Fitness (4 answers total)

I would normally not post unless I had a good, accurate answer, but since no one else has answered yet... I used to use a Blistex product (don't remember which one), but then switched to "Lip Rescue" by Desert Essence which I now love. Take it for what it's worth.
Checking amazon.com shows the ingredients are; soybean oil, beeswax, candelilla wax, ozokerite, carnauba, shea butter, ginkgo, rosemary, vitamin E, propyl gallate, and essential oil of mint. Because I can't read the tube in front of me.
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 9:00 PM on July 6, 2008

I love the Neosporin LT. It smells vaguely of vanilla and works magic on my oft-chapped lips.
posted by cacahuete at 9:41 PM on July 6, 2008

By the way, did you check out this question?
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 7:41 PM on July 7, 2008

Response by poster: Yes ObscureReferenceMan, that's why I said "speaking of lip balm." It was asked not long before this question. :)
posted by IndigoRain at 8:13 PM on July 9, 2008