{"id":181,"date":"2009-02-25T15:22:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/02\/my-favorite-new-natural-lip-balm.html"},"modified":"2009-02-25T15:22:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:22:42","slug":"my-favorite-new-natural-lip-balm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/02\/my-favorite-new-natural-lip-balm.html","title":{"rendered":"My New Favorite Natural Lip Balm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" height=\"240\" alt=\"emuoil.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/emuoil.gif\" width=\"145\" \/><\/span>A couple of weeks ago when I was recovering from bronchitis, my lips were so chapped they were&nbsp;ready to fall off&#8211;it hurt to smile. For days I had been addictively applying my Aveda lip balm and some other health food store lip balm, to almost no effect. Then my friend Loren whipped out the <a href=\"http:\/\/thunderridgeemu.com\/products\/products.php?page=14\" target=\"_blank\">Emu Lip Refresher<\/a>. Maybe it&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve known each other since we were 16, but she was willing to share with germy old me, and Oh. My. Gawd. Within the first few hours I could smirk, two days later my lips were smoooth. If I could do an informercial, I would. <\/p>\n<p>Only problem is, the magic ingredient is emu oil. I like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emu\" target=\"_blank\">emus<\/a> (tall ostrichy birds from Down Under)&nbsp;and generally don&#8217;t like to consume animals unless it&#8217;s essential. The company that makes the balm I&#8217;m using, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderridgeemu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thunder Ridge Emu Products<\/a>, makes a zillion petroleum-free&nbsp;emu-based products, from vitamins to cuticle cream. They claim the stuff is anti-inflammatory and heals everything from fostbite to scars to acne.&nbsp;My concerns are slightly alleviated by knowing&nbsp;the oil comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderridgeemu.com\/aboutus.php\" target=\"_blank\">organic, free-range emus <\/a>on a ranch in Virginia; the company gets its name from the Australian aborigines&#8217; nickname for the howling creatures: &#8220;thunder chickens.&#8221;&nbsp;So, it all depends how you feel about animal-based cosmetics, no matter how happy the living animals.&nbsp;I&#8217;m ambivalent. But man, thunder chicken&nbsp;has made my lips very happy. Oh, and it&#8217;s only $3.50 a pop. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a favorite healing lip balm? 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