Product Review: Lucas' Papaw Ointment

I never really thought about reviewing products, in particularly health and beauty products, until the other day. I thought that it might be a good idea as I'm just a regular person who doesn't know too much about these sort of products nor can afford the expensive brands. While that might sound a bit discouraging, I am focusing on the outcome/effects of these products and think that people similar to me might get something out of me talking about the stuff I use on my body (might save them a bit of money haha), plus the opinion of someone who's not biased and trying to impress some company. I hope that makes sense.

Anyway, Lucas' Papaw Ointment. Probably one of the best things I have ever used on my dry lips. After Christmas I had a pretty bad case of dry lips, they were cracked in the corners. I had run out of lip balm and other similar products that help stop dry lips. So my mum gave me her papaw oinment to use. Within a few days I had noticed a difference, the cracks had started to heal; and within a week my lips had pretty much returned to normal. A similar situation happened last week: the right corner of my lips had cracked again. I applied the papaw ointment and they have now fully healed. In my experience, it usually takes a reasonable amount of time for corner cracked lips to heal, the reason being that you re-open the wound every time you open your mouth. Therefore, I was impressed how quickly this product worked.

According to the official website (http://lucaspawpawointment.com), Lucas' Papaw Ointment can be applied to the following:

• Abscesses Boils 
• Bruises
• Burns
• Carbuncles
• Chafings
• Cuts 
• Cysts
• Dry and Cracked skin on hands and feet
• Gravel rash
• Heat rash
• Insect stings
• Mosquito bites
• Open wounds
• Pimples
• Scalds
• Sunburn 
• Swelling associated with injury
• Splinters and thorns 
• Tinea 
• Whitlow 

That's quite a few things. I've only tried it on cuts (i.e. cracked lips) and chapped lips, which it worked beautifully on. I'm interested in trying it on some of these other things to see if it works as well as it did on my lips (I'll let you know if it does).

The official website also states: 

"Lucas Papaw Ointment is made in Australia from pure papaws.

Papaw or Papaya we all know as a delicious fruit, but the beneficial qualities of Papaw greatly aid the skin.

Lucas Papaw Ointment cleans away infectious wastes. Papaw contains Papain which helps clean wounds.

The base used in Lucas Papaw ointment is certified to be free of carcinogens.

The ointment is approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration."

Another pro about this product is that it isn't sticky. So once you apply it, where ever you placed it won't feel all sticky, you also won't have sticky residue on your fingers. I point this out because quite a few ointments are quite sticky and you pretty much have to wash you hands after putting it on (Bepanthen is a good example of an annoyingly 'sticky' ointment, that doesn't even work that well to tell the truth). It is also quite a light ointment and you won't feel as though you have a whole tub of it on your face or make it look obvious that your lips are dry as fuck.

It also does an okay job at giving your lips a bit of temporary shine:

In conclusion, I would recommend Lucas' Papaw Ointment. It's effective, fast acting and doesn't have a disgusting texture. I actually can't think of anything bad about it. Would be nice if you could get it in a lip balm form, but a tube is all good. If you suffer from dry lips and are prone to getting cracks in the corners, I would suggest you purchase some of this stuff. It's about $10-15 and you can get it from pharmacies and from Farmers.