A tube of ChapStick

ChapStick Flava-Craze

ChapStick is a brand name for lip balm manufactured by Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, used in the United States, Australia, Canada, and United Kingdom. A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a Lip balm or lip salve is a substance topically applied to the lips of the Mouth to relieve chapped or dry lips Angular cheilitis or Stomatitis Wyeth, formerly known as American Home Products (AHP is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world The United States of America —commonly referred to as the For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located It is intended to help treat and prevent chapped lips; hence the name. Chapped lips is a condition whereby the Lips become dry and possibly cracked Many varieties also include SPF 15 sunscreen in order to prevent sunburn.

Due to ChapStick's popularity, the term has become a genericized trademark, used to refer to any lip balm contained in a lipstick-style tube and applied in the same manner as lipstick. A genericized trademark (also known as a generic trademark or proprietary eponym) is a Trademark or Brand name that has become the colloquial However, the term is still a registered trademark, with rights exclusively owned by Wyeth. A trademark or trade mark, represented by the symbols ™ and ®, or mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual In the United Kingdom the product's main competitor is Lipsyl which is distributed in similar packaging. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located

ChapStick comes in several different varieties, each with its own flavor and stylized applicators. Various formulations include the Classics, Moisturizers, Medicated, Flava-Craze, Overnight, and All-Natural.

Chapstick is sometimes available in special flavors developed in connection with marketing partners such as Disney (as in cross-promotions with Winnie the Pooh or the movie Cars) or with causes, such as Breast Cancer Awareness, in which 30¢ is donated for each stick sold,^[1] (as in the "Susan G. Komen Pink Pack"). Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional Bear created by A Cars is a 2006 animated Feature film produced by Pixar and directed by both John Lasseter and Joe Ranft. Breast cancer is a Cancer that starts in the cells of the Breast in women and men Susan G Komen for the Cure, formerly known as The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, is an organization supporting Breast cancer research The "Flava-Craze" line is marketed to children, with colorful applicators and "fun" flavors such as "Grape Craze," "Blue Crazeberry," and "Watermelon Splash. "

Any given ChapStick may contain camphor, beeswax, menthol, petrolatum, phenol, Vitamin E, and aloe. } Camphor is a waxy white or transparent solid with a strong aromatic odor For the rock song by Nirvana see Beeswax (song. Beeswax is a natural Wax produced in the bee hive of Honey bees of the genus Menthol is an Organic compound made synthetically or obtained from Peppermint or other mint oils Petroleum jelly, petrolatum or soft paraffin is a Semi-solid mixture of Hydrocarbons (with Carbon numbers mainly higher than 25 Phenol, is a toxic colourless Crystalline Solid with a sweet tarry odor commonly referred to as a "hospital smell" See also Tocopherol, Tocotrienol Vitamin E is the collective name for a set of 8 related Tocopherols and Tocotrienols which are fat-soluble Aloe, also written Aloë, is a Genus containing about four hundred Species of flowering succulent Plants However, there are hundreds of variants of ChapStick, each with its own composition. Hundreds of generic lipbalms also exist, each with their own varieties and flavors, meaning there are several thousand Chapstick and Chapstick-like products available to consumers.

Uses

ChapStick functions as both a sunscreen, available with SPFs as high as 30, and a skin moisturizer and lubricant to help prevent and protect chafed, chapped, sunburned, cracked, and windburned lips. Sunscreen (also known as sunblock or suntan lotion) is a Lotion, spray or other Topical product that absorbs or reflects the Sun 's Sunscreen (also known as sunblock or suntan lotion) is a Lotion, spray or other Topical product that absorbs or reflects the Sun 's

"Medicated" varieties also contain analgesics to relieve sore lips.

History of ChapStick

In the early 1870s, Dr. Charles Browne Fleet,^[2] a physician and pharmacological tinkerer from Lynchburg, Virginia, invented ChapStick as a lip balm. Doctor Charles Browne Fleet ( September 18, 1843 - May 12, 1916) was a Pharmacist and inventor of the Laxative but more Lynchburg is an Independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The handmade product, which resembled a wickless candle wrapped in tin foil, was sold locally, but did not have much success.

In 1912, John Morton, also a Lynchburg resident, bought the rights to the product for five dollars. In their family kitchen, Mrs. Morton melted the pink ChapStick mixture, cooled it, and cut in into sticks. Their lucrative sales were used to found the Morton Manufacturing Corporation.

In 1963, The A. P. Robins Company acquired ChapStick from Morton Manufacturing Corporation. At that time, only ChapStick Lip Balm regular stick was being marketed to consumers; subsequently, many more varieties have been introduced. This includes ChapStick flavored sticks in 1971, ChapStick Sunblock 15 in 1981, ChapStick Petroleum Jelly Plus in 1981, and ChapStick Medicated in 1992. Picabo Street is commonly seen on television commercials as one of the company's endorsers. Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971, in Triumph Idaho) is an American Skier, now retired and living in Park City Utah.

Microphones in ChapStick tubes, used by E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy during the burglary in the Watergate building. Everette Howard Hunt Jr ( October 9 1918 – January 23 2007) was an American Author and spy. George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for the White House Plumbers unit that existed during several years of The Watergate complex is an office-apartment-hotel complex built in 1967 in northwest Washington D

ChapStick tubes with hidden microphones played a role in the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s. The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. ^[3]

US Olympic skier Suzy Chaffee starred in ChapStick commercials on television in which she dubbed herself "Suzy ChapStick. The Winter Olympic Games are a winter Multi-sport event held every four years Suzanne "Suzy" Chaffee (born November 29 1946, Rutland Vermont) is an Olympic skier and actress " ^[4]

References

External links

• ChapStick - Official website
• ChapStick UK - Official UK website
• The History of Chapstick