Summary
When staring at shelves full of sticks, tubs and tubes all promising us the perfect pout, how do you know which Lip Balms will really help keep chapped lips at bay?
Listener Kiran is a regular lip balm applier - saying she often suffers with dry or cracked lips, and recently splashed out on an expensive lip balm after seeing celebrity endorsed adverts for it online. But she isn?t sure it?s any better than her trusty tub of Vaseline.
To find out, Greg Foot speaks to Consultant Dermatologist and Dermatological Surgeon Dr Emma Craythorne about lips, lip lickers, mouth breathers and the causes of cracking - as well as lecturer in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry at the University of Sunderland, Dr Teresa Borrello about what is IN these lip balms to plump, smooth, or repair.
All our episodes start with YOUR suggestions. If you?ve seen an ad, trend or wonder product promising to make you happier, healthier or greener, email us at [email protected] OR send a voice note to our WhatsApp number, 07543 306807.
PRODUCERS: KATE HOLDSWORTH AND GREG FOOT
RESEARCHER: PHIL SANSOM
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his Radio 4 show called Rewinder. |
| 0:23.2 | You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, and the best part is free. |
| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires. Live, forward slash fringe. |
| 0:34.4 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:48.3 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to Slice Bread, the BBC Radio 4 show that investigates the wonder products, promising to make you happier, healthier or greener. |
| 0:59.8 | Each episode, I run one of your suggested wonder products through the evidence mill to find out if it is indeed the best things since sliced bread or marketing BS. And today's suggestion comes from Kieran Kuller in London. |
| 1:04.4 | Welcome, Kieran. Hello. Kieran, what wonder product would you like us to investigate today? |
| 1:07.9 | I'd like you to talk about lip balm's today, please. |
| 1:10.9 | Ooh, yes, very popular one. Do you use lip balm yourself? |
| 1:11.5 | I do. |
| 1:13.2 | I use it multiple times a day. |
| 1:15.6 | And what do you want to know about it specifically? |
| 1:19.6 | So I recently purchased a very expensive lip balm. |
| 1:20.6 | It's called Lanage. |
| 1:24.2 | There's various celebrities that have been seen using it and they have great lips. |
| 1:28.6 | So I thought I'd give it a try. I've also been kind of using it with Vaseline, some smaller lip balms like Bert's Bees, Carmex, because it is such an expensive |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.