I was getting horribly chapped winter lips and tend to carry 5 tubes of chapstick and some vaseline in my purse just stop them from cracking and bleeding. Then I remembered that I stop doing something that I used to do –  exfoliate my lips. It’s the solution to gross winter chappedness:

  I originally found The Body Shop’s Lip Scuff  when I was a teenager and fell in love with it. Over the course of more than a decade, they have changed the formula many times and I have to admit the current version has finer grain and doesn’t exfoliate the way the old one does, but at $11.50 the product is worth your money and does leave lips silky smooth.

   If you’re more indulgent or a product nut like myself, you might be interested in trying The Lip Scrub,  a line from Australian Sara Happ that features absolutely nothing but lip scrubs. She invented it in her kitchen and boasts yummy flavors such as brown sugar, peppermint, vanilla bean, and almond creme… but at $29.99 a box you might want to plan on only using it during the winter. 

I have wishy-washy skin… Sometimes it behaves and looks radiant and other times I feel like it’s a blackhead bonanza. When I was in puberty is was like whitehead heaven. But over the course of 15 years of unreliable and inconsistent skin problems, I have found that there is one brand I can always turn to to clear up the problem:

 That’s right. Look no further. For over 10 years I have religiously used Neutrogena products to keep my skin spazes in check. Breaking out? Try the RapidClear. Aging? Try the VisiblyFirm. Both? It’s HealthySkin you need. Personally, I’ve been using the latter for the last 5 years… and only when I deviate from my blessed Neutrogena regimen does my skin freak out.