Medicated to soothe cold sores and care for your lips blistex relief cream has a soothing and protective formula to relieve treat occasional cold sores and cracked and chapped lips leaving your lips feeling soft again when cold sore symptoms first arise gently apply every hour to rapidly relieve any discomfort your lips are more sensitive during extreme weather conditions so you may need a little more care than normalapply blistex relief cream frequently to quickly relieve sore cracked