Perry Romanowski, a cosmetic chemist and a blogger over at The Beauty Brains was quoted as saying, "You can't get addicted to lip balm the way you can get addicted to cigarettes; that's actually a chemical addiction that affects your brain."
Lip balms can form habits. New skin cells which die and dry out before they reach the top layer are produced by the lower layers of skin.
"When you put the lip balm on the dry skin, what that does is interfere with the signaling mechanism that signals to the lower cells to start producing more," he says.
"Using lip balm, while it makes your lips feel good initially, when it wears off your skin feels dry again and your skin doesn't have time to replenish that."
What happens is you apply more and more lip balm as it wears out hence the 'addiction'.
"And so in that way you can get 'addicted'; it becomes sort of a psychological habit."
Some other possible explanation: Products such as the antiseptic chemical phenol or peppermint that can cause irritation and dryness to the lips is contained in some lip products, suggest Dr. Margaret E. Parsons, a Sacramento, Calif., dermatologist.
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