Carmex is a topical lip balm inicated both to reduce cold sores and dry or chapped lips. It is sold in jars, sticks, and squeezable tubes. Carmex has been manufactured by Carma Laboratories in Franklin, Wisconsin since 1937. Its active ingredients are menthol, camphor, and phenol (an anesthetic). Other ingredients include fragrance in petrolatum, lanolin, cocoa butter, bees wax, and salicylic acid.