# Lip Balm Ingredients

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lip-balm-ingredients/76182>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 14, 2001, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lip-balm-ingredients/76182 "2001-08-14T12:50:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lip-balm-ingredients/76182/1 "2001-08-14T12:50:37Z")

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Lip balm - my wife tells me it’s made from Placenta, in-fact she has a brand simply called ‘Placenta’ and it is in every respect the same as other lip balms.

Anyone know if this is true?  
Who’s placenta is it?

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**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lip-balm-ingredients/76182/2 "2001-08-14T14:49:11Z")

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I haven’t been able to find any placenta lip balm (thank heaven!) but I did find this: ( [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a981225.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a981225.html) ), a place which sells moisturizing cream made from placenta.  
Yeeg.

The column referenced by this question is here:  
[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a981225.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a981225.html)  
RR

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lip-balm-ingredients/76182/3 "2001-08-14T21:06:50Z")

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**Author:** ![VanL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@VanL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanL)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lip-balm-ingredients/76182/4 "2001-08-16T18:01:38Z")

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I remember hearing a report some years ago on public radio saying that what made lip balm “addictive” is that many of them contain ingrediants which may give temporary relief but then after a period of a couple of hours act to dry out the lips. This leads to a repetitve cycle of using the lip balm.