The Best Lip Balm for Cold Weather: ChopSaver

With winter comes biting winds, plummeting temperatures, and dry indoor air—all of which wreak havoc on your lips. If you’re tired of dealing with dry, chapped lips every winter season, ChopSaver is here to help. Originally designed to heal the lips of brass and woodwind instrument players, ChopSaver is the best lip balm for cold […]

Lip Balm for Accutane (Ours is the Best)

Accutane, the brand name for isotretinoin, is a powerful prescription medication used to treat severe acne. By significantly reducing oil production in the skin, Accutane delivers dramatic improvements in skin clarity. However, this process can also lead to notable side effects, including excessive dryness. Dry lips are one of the most common challenges for Accutane […]

Why Aloe Vera is inside ChopSaver Lip Care

Aloe Vera is an amazing plant with fantastic healing qualities. Sometimes we use aloe and aloe vera interchangeably, but aloe is the genus or group of plants and vera is the most common species in that genus. It contains Vitamins A, C, E and B12. Aloe plants also have anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antiviral, antiseptic, and antioxidant […]

Making Your Own Hand Sanitizer? Please Reconsider

(The following is a guest post by trusted friend of ChopSaver and Certified Formulating Chemist Tammy Lisi. This is her response to the growing trend of do-it-yourself hand sanitizers. Some of this is technical in nature, but to sum up, it is not a good idea, in her opinion.)

ChopSaver Lip Care and Medical Applications

ChopSaver Lip Care was invented by a trumpet player. That trumpet player happens to be me, Dan Gosling. I created it for people like me who use and abuse their lips while playing a brass or woodwind instrument. Medical Uses A few years after I developed it, I began to hear from Dermatologists. These Doctors […]

Marketing a Musical Lip Balm to Non-Musicians

Even though ChopSaver was originally created for brass and woodwind players, it really is for anyone who wants a lip care product that actually works and is willing to pay a little bit more. The challenge becomes, how to get that message out – that it’s not just a lip balm for musicians – without […]

Why People Love Marching Band

Recently, we posted the following question on Facebook and Instagram: Here are some of the best responses. “To travel, it’s fun to meet new people that have the same interests as you.” “As a marching band parent I think it amazing the way the kids learn an entire new pregame and halftime routine every year […]

Who is Your “Tone Hero?”

(This article is a guest post by long time ChopSaver fan and band director David McCullough. His concept of a “Tone Hero” for young musicians is a must read for all musicians and he has gone to the trouble of providing numerous links to examples of great tone on any instrument.) Who is Your “Tone […]

Michael Martin Interview – Parts 1 and 2

Michael Martin is a trumpet player with The Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Part 1, Michael tells ChopSaver Guy Dan Gosling about his early musical influences including the movie Jurassic Park and the path he took to get into the BSO.

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