Children's lipsticks: about choosing hygienic lipstick for children

For diseases and damage to the skin

Dermatologists prescribe petroleum jelly and cosmetics containing it to patients with eczema, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, as well as burns and diabetic complications on the feet.
But it is important to understand that it does not treat the skin, but only alleviates the condition - it heals microtraumas and prevents infections from getting into them. The action of Vaseline is as follows: it creates a protective film on the skin that prevents moisture from evaporating. Does this mean that Vaseline can be used to keep the skin hydrated? Absolutely not. The evaporation of moisture from the surface of the skin is a natural process that is best not to disturb. Moreover, Vaseline is contraindicated for those with dry skin.

During the cold season

You can use Vaseline in the fall, winter or early spring before going outside for a month. Or apply it throughout the cold period, with breaks of several days - only on the coldest or windiest days.

Why do you need hygienic lipstick?

This is a product that protects lips from temperature changes, sun and moisture, and also has wound-healing properties. In addition, hygienic lipstick can be used:

to eliminate the consequences of insect bites and minor abrasions. The beneficial substances included in the composition promote rapid healing and relief of unpleasant symptoms.
treating the area under the nose for a runny nose. During colds, this area is subjected to mechanical stress (handkerchiefs, even paper ones, injure the skin). Using lipstick will prevent the appearance of cracks or peeling, and if they already exist, it will get rid of crusts and wounds.
sun protection. Of course, there are more effective balms, ointments and sprays, but few of them are suitable for children. A thin layer of hygienic lipstick will prevent the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation

Analogs

The product in question has structural analogues:

Cosmetic Vaseline – 98 RUR;
Mink Vaseline – 29 RUR;
Vaseline ointment – 37 rubles;
Cosmetic Vaseline for children, softening and protection, chamomile – 17 RUR.

Products with other active ingredients can replace medical Vaseline:

Locobase ripea cream – 455 rub.;
Clearwin body skin care cream – 75 rubles;
Panthenol evo cream – 60 rub.;
Emolium n cream – 760 rub.

If you have dermatological problems, it is advisable to seek help from a doctor. A specialist will select the most suitable composition without health risks.

Compound

Children's hygienic lipsticks are made from natural ingredients that should protect children's skin. Usually beeswax is used as a base. In addition to this, the composition includes:

Vitamins A and E. They have protective properties, soften and moisturize the skin, and help get rid of flaking
Oils. They should also be natural (apricot, peach, grape, coconut, castor). If the composition includes “mineral oils”, then the lipstick contains petroleum products. As research by the French consumer protection organization Que Choisir shows, such cosmetics are dangerous not only for children, but also for adults
Herbal extracts. Extracts from calendula, chamomile and other medicinal plants have an anti-inflammatory effect
Lanolin. This is an animal fat that protects the dermis from exposure to wind and temperature, preventing cracking.

Ideally, lipstick should not contain chemical fragrances. Extracts from cocoa beans or other natural substances can give a pleasant smell.

Simple recipes for face masks with Vaseline

To improve your appearance, you can use solid and liquid forms of Vaseline and use it to create your own creams and various face masks.

Homemade skin care products will help even out the structure and color of the epidermis, speed up the healing of damaged tissue, soften the skin and protect it from irritating factors, reduce the severity of scars, scars and acne.

For wrinkles

A rejuvenating mask will allow you to get rid of small facial wrinkles in a few procedures, and make deep ones less pronounced:

Cut off the leaves of aloe vera or aloe vera and refrigerate for 5-7 days.
Squeeze 30 ml of aloe juice and add 2 tsp to it. Vaseline. Mix thoroughly until smooth.
Apply the product to the skin, leave for 15 minutes, then rinse with warm water or pat your face with a paper towel.

Transfer the unused mixture into a clean jar, close the lid and store in the refrigerator. Use the rest of the product within a month.

For acne

The following composition will help lighten age spots and smooth out acne:

Combine 1 tbsp. l fat sour cream, 1 tbsp. l. Vaseline and 1 tsp. freshly squeezed lime or lemon juice.
Mix the ingredients until smooth.
Apply the mask to your face and keep for 20 minutes.

At the end of the procedure, cleanse your face with a cotton pad moistened with lotion or micellar water.

You can also successfully use Vaseline to cleanse your face of blackheads. Cleansing manipulations should be carried out no more than 1-2 times a month and certainly after a shower or hot bath, when the pores on steamed skin expand:

Apply a little Vaseline to problem areas with comedones.
Place cling film and a hot towel on top.
Hold until the compress cools down.
Remove any remaining product with a paper or cloth napkin.
Remove blackheads by gently squeezing clogged pores with your fingertips.

After this procedure, sebaceous plugs easily come out. When your face is completely cleansed, you need to wipe your skin with lotion or micellar water.

Scar mask

Scars left from acne greatly spoil your appearance. It is possible to reduce their severity and give the skin smoothness and uniformity using a gelatin mask:

Pour water into food gelatin until the crystals are completely swollen, then place in a water bath.
Add 1 tbsp. l Vaseline and 1 drop of iodine.
Cool the mixture and use as a mask.

To speed up the resorption of scars and improve the structure of the skin, it is better to leave this composition on the skin overnight and rinse it off with warm water in the morning.

Recipe for dry skin

Another mask will help relieve dry skin:

Mix 50 g of melted butter, 40 ml of castor oil and 10 g of Vaseline, heated in a steam bath.
Add a small amount of chamomile infusion.
Give the composition a uniform consistency that will be easily distributed over the surface of the facial skin and remain in an even layer.
Apply this mixture to your face and leave for 30-40 minutes.

Remove the moisturizer and emollient with a paper napkin or towel. This mask is suitable for women with dry and normal skin types.

Anti-acne mask with Vaseline and honey

For people suffering from acne, irritation and other skin rashes, it is useful to use honey in masks:

Take a fresh chicken egg. Separate the yolk and beat it with a whisk.
Add 1 tsp to the yolk. almond oil, natural honey and heated Vaseline.
Stir the mixture, transfer to a clean container and place in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
Cover the surface of the skin with the product and leave overnight. In the morning, rinse with warm water.

A mask according to this recipe can be taken into account not only by adults, but also by teenagers.

Interesting! Vaseline has no age restrictions, so it is allowed to be used by patients of all categories - from newborns to the elderly.

Vaseline and iodine mask recipe

A multifunctional mask with iodine and castor oil will make the skin soft and silky, remove flaking, make freckles and age spots lighter, acne and pimples less pronounced:

Combine 2 drops of iodine, 12 ml of castor oil and 7 g of Vaseline.
Mix until smooth and apply with a brush to the skin of the face.
After 1-2 hours, remove any remaining product with a paper or cloth napkin.

To improve nutrition and metabolic processes in epidermal cells, 3 tsp can be added to the composition. bee honey. This mask is best washed off with warm water.

Oil mask

To soften and moisturize dry skin, we can recommend a mask recipe not with thick Vaseline, but with liquid oil:

Mix 1 tbsp. l. Vaseline and olive oils.
Add a few cloves of garlic, chopped on a grater.
Apply the mixture to your face and keep for 20 minutes.

Mask with whitening effect

This simple remedy will help not only whiten your skin, but also even out its texture. However, this composition can be used no more than once a week.

To 1 tbsp. l. Vaseline oil add 1 tbsp. l. freshly squeezed lime or lemon juice and 3 chicken yolks.
Mix the ingredients and apply to the skin with a brush.
After 30 minutes, rinse with warm water.

If less mass is required, then reduce it proportionally.

How to choose lipstick

To choose the right hygienic lipstick for your child’s lips, you should follow several rules:

Choose a product that does not contain allergens and carcinogens (the composition should not contain honey, sea buckthorn, or mineral oils). Try to avoid Vaseline-based lipsticks: the base should be wax or paraffin
For a baby, it is better to buy a convenient stick in a tube, but for older children, balms with dispensers are suitable
Do not buy “hygienic” products with pigments and glitter
For winter time you need to purchase a thicker product

It is best to buy lipstick in a specialized children's store or pharmacy. Ensure the integrity of the protective film! SanPiN standards 1.2.681-97 “Hygienic requirements for the production and safety of perfumery and cosmetic products” do not require lipstick to be perfectly sterile, but still it comes out of the factory quite clean and safe for the baby.

Reviews about the use of Vaseline

Victoria, 32 years old, Sevastopol:

“I never thought that cheap Vaseline is much more effective than advertised creams. Since last winter I have been using it to protect my face from chapping, and also as part of a rejuvenating mask. The result became visible after just a few procedures. I consider the main advantage of the drug to be low cost and complete hypoallergenicity.”

Kristina, 28 years old, St. Petersburg:

“I always have a tube of Vaseline in my makeup bag. Since my student years, I have been using Vaseline for acne, as well as to soften dry skin, protect my face and lips from wind and cold. The product helps out in both hot and frosty weather. My husband uses it for cracked heels.”

Anastasia, 44 years old, Voronezh:

“After 40 years, my face began to become covered with wrinkles. In search of an effective and inexpensive product, I came across information about the smoothing and softening properties of Vaseline and decided to try them on myself. Thanks to the drug, there were fewer wrinkles on the face, the skin smoothed out, became elastic and silky. I use cosmetic Vaseline in its pure form or in combination with castor and butter oils.”

Maria, 19 years old, Tyumen:

“I am allergic to frost and the skin on my lips easily reacts to the cold outside. Unfortunately, hygienic or protective lipstick does not help. I recently discovered Vaseline and it works even better if mixed with mink oil. Therefore, a few minutes before going outside, I apply this mixture to my lips. Lips become soft and protected from the negative influence of the external environment. In addition, the product shines beautifully and naturally, like lip gloss.”

Nikita, 18 years old, Moscow:

“I have scars and acne on my face. I went to cosmetologists, there was help, but it was not budgetary. I started looking for a remedy for my problem and came across information about Vaseline. I made several masks with Vaseline and honey, then with iodine. I got a good effect, I think I’ll continue.”

Expiration date and contraindications

Hygienic lipstick, like any other skin care product, should not be used if:

the child has purulent inflammations on the skin
baby is prone to allergic reactions
you doubt the naturalness and safety of the composition

Most packages indicate the age at which it is permissible to use the product. Of course, a product “from 6 years old” cannot be used for a one-year-old baby. For very small babies, you can use any natural oil as lip care. If stored properly, lipstick can have a shelf life of up to three years, but once the package is opened, it will be usable for several months.

What is the difference between petroleum jelly and petrolatum

Vaseline oil, which is often called liquid paraffin, is obtained by purifying the oil fraction after the process of distilling kerosene. It has the appearance of a clear oily liquid and is used as an emollient base in medical ointments and cosmetic creams.

For medicinal purposes, the liquid product is used for constipation in adults, as well as for medical procedures and manipulations.

Reference! The oil has the same properties as Vaseline.

For this reason, if necessary, it can be used to prepare homemade ointments, creams and masks for the skin of the face.

How to store it correctly

If you purchased hygienic lipstick with natural ingredients, you will have to select suitable storage conditions. Some people prefer to put such products in the refrigerator. True, lipsticks there harden and then are poorly applied to the lips. But if this is the only way to protect the balm from high temperatures, it is quite suitable. Ideal storage conditions are a temperature of +5 to +20 degrees, in a dark, dry place.

What lipstick should you not use?

How can you tell if lipstick has lost its quality and become dangerous? There are several signs that a product is expired:

An unpleasant odor appeared. Caused by the decomposition of the fat base
The product has cracked or started to bleed. Ingredients began to separate due to improper storage conditions. The product cannot be used
The shade has changed. Typically, light yellow or white chapsticks begin to darken or become transparent. This means that the product has expired
An incomprehensible plaque appeared. May be due to the settling and freezing of fat particles due to improper storage, but usually indicates the unsuitability of the product
Drops of liquid began to appear on the surface

At the same time, GOST 28767-90 “Fat-based decorative cosmetics products. General technical conditions" allows for the presence of "pores" in hygienic lipstick: this is neither a defect nor evidence of unsuitability of the product.

Which companies are better

Now on the Russian market you can find more than a dozen different children's lipsticks. Most manufacturers focus on bright and beautiful tubes to attract the attention of the youngest consumers, sometimes adding substances to their products that are not suitable for children. To make sure you don’t make a mistake with your choice, it’s best to look not at prices or brand awareness, but at the composition. For example, “adult” products from skincare lines usually contain not only castor oil, but also products of petroleum distillation and the chemical industry, as John Emslie writes about this in “On the benefits and harms of the products we like to buy.” Of course, this should not be in a children's product. Choose low-component products with natural ingredients that do not have a long shelf life: this guarantees the absence of preservatives in the composition.

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Brief characteristics of the drug

Vaseline was first obtained back in 1859 during experiments with oil.
The resulting product resembled the popular delicacy in appearance and consistency, and was therefore called oil jelly. But the inventor of the substance, chemist Robert Chesbrough, could not popularize it under this name, and therefore came up with another name for his brainchild, combining parts of the German and Greek words, which translated mean water and oil. This marketing ploy turned out to be more successful, as it quickly attracted public attention. A few years later, the scientist patented a new name, which not only has survived to this day, but has also become a household name. What is Vaseline made from, its physicochemical properties

Today there are two types of substances: natural and synthetic origin. The first is obtained from paraffin resins of deciduous trees after appropriate cleaning, bleaching, deodorizing and dyeing.

The substance does not have a structural formula, since it is a mixture of several components: mineral oil and paraffin hydrocarbons.

Natural Vaseline has an ointment-like, viscous structure that forms viscous threads. When applied in a thin layer to the surface, it is clearly visible. The substance does not smell of anything; when heated, it can emit a faint paraffin odor.

The melting point is from 27 to 60 °C, the liquid formed during heating is transparent, can be colorless or with a yellowish tint.

The substance can dissolve in ethers and chloroform, but not in water or ethanol. Combines well with all vegetable oils, except castor.

Vaseline has pronounced aseptic and hydrophilic properties: it is able to absorb and retain moisture. Emulsifies with great difficulty. During storage, a quality substance should not separate into fractions and release even the smallest particles of oil.

To produce synthetic petroleum jelly, a set of several components is used: ceresin, purified perfume oil and medical petroleum jelly. The ingredients are mixed, melted, and a certain amount of pure petrolatum is added to the resulting mixture to achieve viscosity and prevent oil separation.

The raw material for the artificial substance is waste from the wood processing industry or a special cosmetic substance. The physical characteristics of the synthetic substance are similar in quality to natural petroleum jelly; it is just as viscous, but differs in shorter threads.

The composition of the additives or the degree of purification of the substance depends on what Vaseline is needed for. Most often it is used in cosmetology, food industry, medicine and everyday life.