What is the preferred lip balm of trumpet players?

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I tried all of them, including that trumpet players stuff I see advertised everywhere. I used Burts Bees and Carmex, but I always come back to this:

Mentholatum Stick Lip Balm

I know some of you will vehemently disagree, but this is the only thing I can use all day long day after day without feeling like my lips are greasy or waxy. Unfortuntately, the stuff is not always easy to find at the store.
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mafields627 · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:17 pm Post subject:

I like Blistex Complete Moisture in the blue tube.
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Jetrang · Veteran Member Joined: 05 Nov 2008 Posts: 277

Blistex medplus for lips works best for me ! had the Purol bee wax thing also great !

trumpetera · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:23 pm Post subject:

Bötels Lippenkraft for me! Fantastic stuff!
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Crazy Finn · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:24 pm Post subject:

What's my preferred lip balm? None.

I don't like using a lip balm for a few reasons:

- It adds an different feel to playing the horn (A minor consideration)
- The more you use a lip balm, the more your lips seem to need one. The less you use one, the less you'll need one you'll discover.

Sometimes I see people who apply lip balm every 15 minutes or so (even brass players). It's ridiculous. Human lips thrived survived for thousands of years without lip balms.

Now, I'll admit that there are sometimes a few days in the winter (and by a few, I mean 5 or less) when my lips really dry out - especially overnight. I use either the Vaseline Lip therapy (non medicated) which is basically Vaseline in a lip balm-like container or one of the Burt's Bees lip products. Stay as natural as possible. Stuff like Chapstick and others have lots of chemicals you don't need to expose yourself or your lips to.

The fewer chemicals you put on your lips the healthier they and you will be.
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laser170323 · Veteran Member Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 201

I know it's not most people's favorite, but I got hooked on ChapStick 35 years ago. And I still use it.

mcgovnor · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject: well

DCT.

You can play with it on, and always helps heal.

BobList · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:53 pm Post subject:

If any at all, which is rare... it's A&D ointment.

Usually a generous coating of Budweiser does the trick for me, though.
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cinci-sop · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:29 pm Post subject:

Chopsaver is the best stuff I have ever used. You can put it on and still play. It's not greasy at all and really soothes soar lips and takes the fatigued feeling away.
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dershem · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject:

A tall, willowy redhead.

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Howie J · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:53 pm Post subject:

Avon Care Deeply for everyday/occasional use. A&D ointment when things get really dried out, but only overnights. Too nasty during the day.

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LeeC · Heavyweight Member Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 5730

Best lip balm?

You play a circus gig or lead trumpet for an R&B group un-miked. Constant loud blowing with unmerciful high register requirements. Do this for between six moths and two years and your lips won't crack even at the top of Mt. Washington in February.

True fact.

cinci-sop · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:25 pm Post subject:

loweredsixth · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:46 pm Post subject:

Chopsaver...I never leave home without it!
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missmybaby · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:59 pm Post subject:

Vitamin E tablets. Nice and messy. I only use them overnight when my chops are shot. Rumor has it you can get it in a tube now, but I am too lazy to find it.

Craig Swartz · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:29 pm Post subject:

What ever wears off on me from all my groupies...

("I kissed a girl and I liked it,
the taste of her cherry Chapstik...

you go, Katy!)

dave belknap · Heavyweight Member Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 677

I use the most beautiful playing and looking cellist in Hollywood. Her "treatment" has for the past six years, worked just fine. The fact that I'm old enough to be her grandfather, could be a contributing factor.

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Crazy Finn · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:10 pm Post subject:

Hmm... which of these seems like the most errr... effective?

LeeC · Heavyweight Member Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 5730

I'm sure there are probably some exceptions. However I believe that the general rule is:

If your lips are chapping in cold weather you're just not practicing enough.

This is one of the purest barometers of endurance. The person playing the heavy gigs over many months/years doesn't need lip balm. His chops are steel.

This condition reminds me of the Vince Lombardi practice regimen. Once upon a time one of his players said:

"We always looked forward to Sundays. All we had to do was beat the other team. That was easy because during the week our practices and workouts damn near killed us".