Makeup Monday | EOS Balms

Hey there!

I’m going to start off by saying that the following post is pertinent to my experience only and by no means am I saying that EOS Balms are not good for you.

Having said that, let’s start sharing my experience.

Apparently there is an ingredient in the product that does not go well with my skin. I started using the product in May 2014 but I had other lip balms so I was not using it exclusively.

I started to notice that my lips were dry so I started drinking more water – at that time I was a stay at home mom, so I thought I wasn't drinking enough water – and applying more and more lip balm, at this point I was only using the EOS Balms (I had 4).

It not only affected my lips but the skin surrounding them. I couldn´t open my mouth too big because I would get cuts in the corner of my mouth and they were painful! Or I would get painful fissures just by talking.

At this point I realized it wasn't just a simple case of dry lips or chapped lips so I went to a dermatologist who explained to me that this was cheilitis by contact and I had to stop using any product around and on that area plus I had to by expensive medication and on top of that, I had to get 3 shots – ouch!!

Then I found myself in the puzzled task of figuring out what product was causing it. To tell you the truth, if it weren't for my husband I wouldn't have figured out it was the EOS balms.

I still don’t know how he came up with it or how he noticed it, but one day he said: “it’s the little egg you are using”… I decided to listen to him and sure enough my skin began to get better.

It was a long process, frustrating and painful process. I have no idea what’s on the balms but whatever it is, is not good at all for my skin and lips.

What I recommend to you is that if you start noticing changes in your skin; go to the doctor right away. I’m sure that I had gone when I first started experiencing “dryness” that would not go away it would have save me a lot of pain and uncomfortableness not only physical but emotional (let me tell ya it is not nice to be talking to someone and start bleeding suddenly). So please! Do not self-medicate and see a physician at the first sign of a problem.

I hope you guys find this post helpful.

Much Love,

Angie!