Beauty Hint...or a little dab will do ya
I am about to plug a commercial product. The only interest I have in promoting this is:
a - a genuine desire to share a truly fabulous find
b - a genuine desire to see that this company prospers so that I can buy my yearly tube of product.
c - in thanks for all the years I was able to get by with samples brought home from LLL conferences.


Men who may be squeamish may stop reading now. But you may want to bite the bullet, fight your embarrassment and forge on..........or don’t call me crying this winter when you have cracked knuckles and chapped lips.

I spent more than a decade as a La Leche League leader helping new mothers with their nursing babies. During this time I was introduced to a product called Lansinoh, which is ultra-pure medical grade lanolin. This was one product that I recommended without reservations, knowing that once a woman no longer needed it for cracked or chafed nipples (remember, God put them there for a purpose) it was also great for diaper rash, baby and toddler chapped (facial) cheeks and a variety of uses for everyone in the family. The approximately $10 a tube always makes me ‘pucker’ for a moment, but when compared to what is sold at the Clinique or Estee Lauder counter, this is a steal. It is non-toxic. You can use it alone on lips, blend it with lipstick to make a colored gloss, a dab on the outside of the eye is a nice hedge against crow’s feet, it is marvelous for chapped hands, elbows, etc. It helps heal small cuts (like, say, the 101 tiny paper cuts I sustained at work while stuffing envelopes the other day) Because it is an animal product (from the wool processing, no lambies are killed to make it, with the allergenic wool alcohols removed) it is more harmonious with human skin than a petroleum based product. It does not form an occlusive barrier (the way Vaseline does) that can actually trap bacteria and fungi against the skin.

Oh, and 1 tube lasts our family for at least a year. Provided the chain of possession stays in my control. It can be purchased in the baby products department of many drug stores (Lansinoh for Nursing Mothers) and the very same product is also packaged and sold in foot care departments. That package can spare those who do not want to carry around a tube that says “nipple care” on it. It says it is for your feet, but it is safe for your lips and everything else, too.

Oh, well, time for my ‘beauty’ routine and off to work............