What is the ruling on applying Vicks to the lips, with the possibility of its taste reaching the throat?
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Applying lipstick on the lips for someone who is fasting is permissible and does not break the fast, unless one intentionally swallows some of it. If its taste reaches the throat through skin pores, and not by swallowing through the usual opening, then the fast is not broken by that, for what breaks the fast is what enters through the openings, not through the pores.
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