Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick: a Guru Score of 67% from 11 experts

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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~Yay

"I really love and recommend Aquaphor Lip Repair. This is a fragrance-free formula, so even suitable for sensitive skin, that really helps to reduce dryness and chapped lips. Helps to kind of heal in moisture and is really designed for all skin types but particularly sensitive skin. The formula includes nourishing vitamins, shea butter as well as chamomile essence to calm and hydrate the lip. So making it a great option for kind of like a balm texture for daily use and also it's very small. So you can easily put in your pocket, put in your bag, just take it out when you need and apply without your hands. You don't have to use your hands. Just apply that product directly on your lip and you're all set."

All 2 takes from Dr. Jenny Liu

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"I really love and recommend Aquaphor Lip Repair. This is a fragrance-free formula, so even suitable for sensitive skin, that really helps to reduce dryness and chapped lips. Helps to kind of heal in moisture and is really designed for all skin types but particularly sensitive skin. The formula includes nourishing vitamins, shea butter as well as chamomile essence to calm and hydrate the lip. So making it a great option for kind of like a balm texture for daily use and also it's very small. So you can easily put in your pocket, put in your bag, just take it out when you need and apply without your hands. You don't have to use your hands. Just apply that product directly on your lip and you're all set."

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"Aquaphor also has a stick as well. The sticks I just find because it's really easy to carry and also easy to apply. That requires really no application with your hand, so if you're like going to the gym and you want to have something you can easily put on like an antiperspirant, this would be a great one to use on the go."

Doctorly

3.58M subs

~Mixed

"The oxybenzone based Aquaphor lip product is below zero for me, probably one of the worst products you can get. Now this product is not bad actually. I think from a functionality standpoint it actually works incredibly well, the problem is it does have those potential allergies in it, so I'm going to put this one on the mid tier."

Dr. Daniel Sugai

720k subs

~Yay

"I still love Aquaphor. I use that on myself and my kids and we'll keep an eye out for any sensitivities that we develop, but right now we're good."

Dr Dray

2.68M subs

~Nay

"I purchased this because I saw Aquaphor came out with this Lip Repair Stick, naturally inspired with coconut oil. So I've been using this, it has coconut oil, shea butter, jojoba seed oil. I don't like it as much as Cerave healing ointment or just Aquaphor healing ointment because it's very, it's more just like an emollient. Like I don't really feel like it's a good formula if you just want to soften the lips like you have dry cracked lips. It is free of fragrance and flavorant, which are common irritants, but it doesn't really have that petroleum jelly lock in the moisture, second skin action."

Top Pick: lip balm

All 4 takes from Dr Dray

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"I purchased this because I saw Aquaphor came out with this Lip Repair Stick, naturally inspired with coconut oil. So I've been using this, it has coconut oil, shea butter, jojoba seed oil. I don't like it as much as Cerave healing ointment or just Aquaphor healing ointment because it's very, it's more just like an emollient. Like I don't really feel like it's a good formula if you just want to soften the lips like you have dry cracked lips. It is free of fragrance and flavorant, which are common irritants, but it doesn't really have that petroleum jelly lock in the moisture, second skin action."

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"I saw something on TikTok of people using this Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick under the eyes as like a primer before applying concealer to reduce creasing, which makes a lot of sense honestly that this would work for them. So I think that's a good idea."

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"I've recently been trying out just the plain immediate relief lip repair, and it's pretty good, but it's not like the immediate remedy relief that I get from just putting either Aquaphor or Vaseline or CeraVe healing ointment. It's kind of a little stiff. It puts a really thin layer on the skin. This is decent."

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"The Lip Repair Stick has castor seed oil, which some people are allergic to, beeswax, some people are allergic to shea butter, of course you can become allergic to anything, and sunflower seed oil. This looks okay. It's also great for spot focus slugging, like slugging your feet or hands: do the glove and sock treatment after you get out of the shower, pat dry the skin and grease up the hands and feet with this and cover with socks and gloves. My recommendation here at Costco would be the Aquaphor lip product, it looks to be the best."

Skin Obsessed Mary

33k subs

~Nay

"Aquaphor has a ton of ingredients and one thing I learned when I worked in retail is things that are FDA approved for the lips are absolutely not FDA approved for eyes. FDA approved for eyes have to be stamped FDA approved for eyes and ophthalmologist tested, and so when you put lip products under the eyes you can get milia or a whole set of problems."

Beyond50Skin

32k subs

~Mixed

"I use the lip balm underneath the eyes and this makes your concealer stay 10 times longer it doesn't get all creased up and crazy believe it or not and it doesn't break down the makeup. He uses it in the under eye area, he uses it in the marionette and he also uses it over the lip. The reason he uses this is because he works with models who need budge proof makeup that doesn't crease and who work long hours so he needed a look that lasted throughout the day that didn't have to be continually touched up. The concept of using the Aquaphor allows the makeup to be pliable throughout the day preventing creases."

HotandFlashy

1.23M subs

~Nay

"The non-Aquaphor side just looks so much better overall, less heavy, less cakey, less settled in wrinkles. So for me the Aquaphor lip balm experiment today was an epic fail. I don't like anything going on on this side of my face. I have combo skin so I am oily through the T-Zone but not super oily, just a little bit through the T-Zone. I have some dry patches around my mouth and my temples and the rest of my face is fairly normal. I tried the Aquaphor concealer hack three days in a row just wanting to make this work, but for me I could just never get it to work no matter what I tried. I don't love it by itself with my regular stuff. I don't love it with this. I just don't love the whole thing. My normal concealer setup is much, much better, looks nicer and smoother."

No BS Beauty

89k subs

~Mixed

"Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick, this was one I kept on my nightstand and sometimes in the middle of the night I put it on without realizing it and then I'd wake up and the cap would be off and it would be all gross. It's almost all gone, but after it fell on the floor in the middle of the night I'm not going to put it back on."

Hyram

4.34M subs

~Mixed

"I have used this off and on throughout the years. As much as I love Aquaphor, this just didn't do enough on its own. It's okay if I put a thick moisturizer on underneath, but it still just kind of feels like very basic and doesn't really do a lot. Because of the applicator, you basically can only use it on your lips. It's not terrible and has a good price point, but it is about as basic of a lip product as you can get."

Robert Welsh

1.11M subs

~Yay

"Aquaphor for the lips, because it's literally the best and rehydrates everything."

Top Pick: lip balm

Sincerely Miss Ash

195k subs

~Yay

"I use the Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick a lot and I really like this. It does the job well. I put a little layer at night time, a little layer in the morning, sometimes during the day if I feel like I don't want to use a tinted lip balm or like a lipstick I will use this and it does the job well. It's affordable, you can get this at the drugstore, you can use this all over the body, but it's amazing for the lips."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Vitamin C

Topical vitamin C is an antioxidant with reasonable evidence for dullness and uneven tone. It breaks down in light and air, so how a product is formulated and packaged matters as much as the percentage on the front.

Source: DermNet

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick?

A fragrance-free lip balm with petrolatum, shea butter, and chamomile designed to moisturise and repair dry, chapped lips for daily use.

Is Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick worth it?

The gurus are split. 4 of the 11 gurus give it their stamp of approval while 3 would skip it, which lands it in the middle at a Guru Score of 67%.

What is Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick's Guru Score?

Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick holds a Guru Score of 67%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 11 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.