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Unlike zee French, flirtatious, and fragrant-in-a-P.U. kind of way Fifi Le Fume, the 36th Annual FiFi Award for best bath and body line of the year went to Origins Organics. The is the first full line of skin, body, and hair care products to be certified under the consistently stringent standards of the USDA National Organic Program.

For the past four weeks, I have had zee opportunity to use Origins Organic Soothing Lip Balm ($15) which smells deliciously like one of my addictions, Breyer vanilla ice cream. The delicious smelling balm softened my dry and cracked lips, and with the USDA certification, I felt better about ingesting the enormous amount of lip balm that I eat every year. The tube even has an organic look and feel to it. The only drawback is that it doesn't contain any sunscreen.

Ingredients:

• Organic Cocoa Butter creates a superb protective barrier between skin and the environment.
• Organic Coconut Oil is an effective moisturizer, and it helps rehydrate dry skin.
• Organic Palm Oil softens and conditions skin and renews and helps eliminate dryness.
• Organic Safflower Oil is almost odorless. It is light and quick to absorb oil.

 

With the USDA National Organic certification of the above-mentioned yummy ingredients and the fact that the average woman consumes between four to nine pounds of lipstick in her lifetime, Origins Organic Soothing Lip Balm will stay on my plate of cosmetics

And in the words of Loony-Tune-ease, "That's all folks!"

Keep moving,
Jamie

Are you lip savvy? Do you wear sunscreen on your lips? If you are like us, you slather sunscreen on your face but you forget the delicate skin on your lips, and that schtick is no laughing matter. Not only are those lips prone to burning and wrinkling, but they are a prime candidate for sun cancer.

Will you wear sun protection on your lips this summer?

Sephora: MD Skincare SPF Lip Balm, Shiseido Sun Protection Lip Treatment 36, Sun Safety Kit

While vacationing in Florida for the month, I thought I had all my bases covered -- Lancome UV Expert 20 sunscreen with mexoryl for my face and body, zinc oxide to cover those delightful freckled age spots, a Coolibar hat that keeps out 99 percent UVA and UVB rays, but guess what I forgot to address? My lips! With lips beyond recognition, I traversed through the kitchen to find a quick, effective, and inexpensive remedy for my swollen and painful lips.

With lips like Angelina Jolie's, I should have been ecstatic, but not only did I have newfound plump lips, but I had a newfound speech impediment. With increased volume triple of my original lips, I couldn't enunciate my words. My first day on the beach, I made the unfortunate mistake of applying a conventional lip balm containing petrolatum-based ingredients, but because the molecules are too big, lip skin can't absorb the ingredients, and now my sunburned Angelina Jolie lips need TLC.

To return my lips from Botox plump and sunburned sexy to thin and deflated (oh, can't I hold onto the Angelina Jolie look without the pain), here are 2 effective remedies for sunburned or chapped lips:

1. Mix a dab of honey with brown sugar and massage lips with a toothbrush. Sugar is a naturally abrasive exfoliant, and honey contains an exfoliating enzyme, as well as a mild antiseptic that kills bacteria and a natural humectant that helps the skin retain moisture.
2. Another natural exfoliant is sugar cane, a source of glycolic acid, which exfoliates and hydrates. You can make a paste of sugar and olive oil and massage it on your lips with a toothbrush.

 

Natural moisturizers like shea butter, beeswax, sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, or hempseed oil, all of which can naturally penetrate the skin, is what I should have had in my beach lip and skin care arsenal. If you would rather buy a product, the two listed below offer you some of the same benefits as the do-it-yourself versions with more convenience, but you can save $30 by doing it yourself. That's brains on beauty.

Jane Iredale's Sugar and Butter Lip Duo ($24 Lovelyskin.com)
Buddha Nose Certified Organic Lip Balm ($6 Amazon.com)

You can find me at the beach. Between the sunscreen, my large Coolibar hat, dots of zinc oxide, and my Angelina Jolie lips, I'm not sure you would recognize me. But if you do, pull up a beach chair and chat a while.

This lip service will not only moisturize your chapped lips but it will have you speaking in soothing words. For more than a decade, researchers have asserted that women speak much more than men do, with one neuropsychiatrist reporting in a book ("The Female Brain") that women use 20,000 words per day compared to only 7,000 for men.

Toss out the stereotype that women blab more than men. Women and men both speak about 16,000 words a day, according to a new study. The Hubster is in total disagreement with the results, maintaining that his girls speak not only more than 16,000 words a day but at a pace more rapid than the speed of light. Enough of his lip service.

With all the oxygen that is passing our lips as we speak, we girls -- and guys -- need to keep our lips in good working order. I always go back to my tried and true Kiehl's Lip Balm No. 1 Tube. While in Florida a few years ago, my lips were sunburned beyond recognition and a friend suggested Kiehl's androgynous lip balm. For the price and the moisturizing effects, you can't beat it. (Saks $6.50)

As I write this post in my pink robe and fluffy slippers with a thick dose of Kiehl's balm on my lips, snow is continuing to fall. (The snow is beagle height. Where is Global Warming when you need it?) By the time I leave the house, my lips and 16,000 words will give lip service a whole new definition.