Let me say I have no business spending this kind of $ on a lip balm…., except that I spent at least a decade spending far more obsessively trying every new \”cheap\” lip product only to wind up discarding them when my lips inevitably began to chap & peel again within minutes or hours. I use a tiny amount of this product before bed, & after brushing my teeth in the a.m., & my lips are soft & smooth all day for the first time in my adult life!