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An Interview with Sam Pilafian, Patrick Sheridan and Choppy the ChopSaver (Part 1 of 3)

Recently, tuba virtuosi and music industry giants Patrick Sheridan (https://patricksheridan.com/) and Sam Pilafian (https://www.pilafian.com/tuba/) caught up with Choppy the ChopSaver at the University of Illinois Marching Band Championship. In a hard hitting, 3 part interview, Choppy covered a wide variety of topics including the benefits of organic ingredients, marching band drill and global warming. A transcript is below to aid with hard […]

Casting for Recovery

While ChopSaver is still a small company, we do what we can to support causes we believe in. Many times it is a simple donation of product for a charity to use as they see fit. One of those is Casting for Recovery. Casting for Recovery is a national organization that sponsors 2 ½ day […]

An Interview with Carol Jarvis

Not only are “ChopSaver Users Just Plain Cool,” many of them are inspiring beyond words! Carol Jarvis (https://www.caroljarvis.com/) is a virtuoso trombone player based in the UK and has toured and recorded extensively with stars such as Seal and Sting but can also be found working with internationally renowned ensembles such as the London Symphony […]

An Interview with Kiku Collins

We continue our “ChopSaver Users are Just Plain Cool” series with trumpeter Kiku Collins! While her early training emphasized classical music, Kiku (http://www.kikucollins.com/) has branched out into the New York jazz and pop music scene. She has performed and toured with Beyoncé, Michael Bolton, Jill Scott, Nick Lowe, Gloria Gaynor, and Train, among others. DG – When did you first […]

What is Your Trumpet?

I recently had a 10 minute appointment with the decision makers of a major retail chain. This meeting would be the culmination of years of blood, sweat and yes, tears. My objective? Get a second meeting. A second meeting would mean they were interested and that interest would ultimately lead to getting ChopSaver lip balm […]

White Willow…Nature’s Aspirin

Despite all the advances in medicine in recent decades, aspirin remains one of the most remarkable drugs ever to have been discovered. But do you know where it comes from? This is another in our continuing series on the ingredients in ChopSaver all-natural lip balm. It helps explain why ChopSaver is so different from other […]

Grapes – They Produce More Than Just Juice and Wine

This is another in our continuing series on what actually makes ChopSaver all-natural lip balm so great. Today we feature grape seed oil including some scientific research on this tasty yet healing ingredient. Grape seed oil is extracted from the seeds of wine grapes (Vitis vinifera). It has a wide range of applications in the […]

Why we Love Lips!

So I am a professional trumpet player and I created ChopSaver, the best lip balm money can buy. I guess that makes me a bit of a lip expert, right? Well, yes and no. When playing the trumpet, I “know” my lips much in the same way a baseball pitcher gets to know his throwing […]

The Magic of Shea Butter

If the herb arnica was the initial inspiration behind the creation of ChopSaver lip balm and therefore the very first ingredient, running a close second was shea butter, another wonderful substance I had never heard of before. Like my discovery of arnica, shea butter was suggested to me by a trumpet playing colleague. He also […]

An Interview with Paula Robison

Another installment in our “ChopSaver Users are Just Plain Cool” series! Paula Robison (https://paularobison.com/home/) is an American treasure in the classical music field. Paula Robison burst onto the international music scene in 1966 when she won First Prize at the Geneva Competition, the first American ever to receive this honor. She joined the roster of […]