Margot Robbie is obsessed with using nipple cream as a bizarre beauty treatment
AUSSIE megastar Margot Robbie has revealed her bizarre beauty obsession — an $8 nipple cream. But she doesn’t use it where you might think.
AUSTRALIAN megastar Margot Robbie has lifted the lid, or rather unscrewed the ointment cap, on her bizarre beauty obsession.
The Wolf of Wall Street actress is a fan of regularly using an $8 nipple cream loved by new mums the world over.
But she doesn’t rub it where you would expect. The homegrown Hollywood ‘it’ girl dabs the product on her lips.
“My lip balm, I use Bepanthen, which is actually a nipple cream for breastfeeding mothers or diaper rash cream for babies,” Robbie, who found fame in local soap Neighbours, told Elle magazine.
“I have a conspiracy theory that lip balms actually have additives in them to dry your lips out so you keep buying them. But because Bepanthen is just a cream for dry skin, it works.”
It certainly looks like it does work — Robbie’s pucker is pretty and picture perfect.
The ointment is sold primarily as a treatment for nappy rash in babies, but its creator Bayer also promotes it as soothing relief for mothers with cracked, dry nipples from breastfeeding.
“Cracked nipples may lead to premature arrest of breastfeeding despite the mother’s wish to breastfeed for longer,” its website states.
“In this case, the use of Bepanthen ointment is recommended in order to support healing process and continuous breast feeding.”
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Bepanthen sells for about $8 at chemists and is found in nappy bags across the world.
Robbie’s use of the unconventional lip treatment isn’t a recent routine — the Gold Coast native said she has used it “my whole life”.
And rumour has it she could have another use for it sometime soon.
Robbie wed Briton Tom Ackerley in December last year and, if gossip magazines in the US are to be believed, they’re ready to start a family.
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Celebrities with weird beauty routines is nothing new — actress Gwyneth Paltrow has admitted to using bee stings to reduce fine lines and scarring, while Blake Lively uses mayonnaise to condition her hair.
