Winter tends to bring dryness, making the skin on lips susceptible to chapping and dead skin cells due to underdevelopment of sebaceous glands and sweat glands.
Some skin cells removed by hand may fall off naturally, since it could cause infection by bacteria. People are advised against licking their lips since it could exacerbate dryness of the lip, worsening its conditions.
When lips get cold sores and are chapped, people are advised to give keen attention to such conditions, which take time to get back to normal.
Following is a look at how to manage the skin of the lip, which tends to be too dry at this time of year.
First, it is important to hydrate the body by drinking frequently, at least 1.5 liters of water per day. Hydration is one of the keys to moisturizing not only the lip, but also general moisture care.
It is also important to clean the kip meticulously with a remover for exclusive use of cleansing the lip area from cosmetics, daily. Lipstick leftovers could exacerbate the discoloring and aging of the lip.
People are advised to clean their lips with a cosmetic pad or a cotton swab applied with a lip cleansing product.
Lip moisturizing cosmetic products designed to moisturize and protect the lip need to be applied in a particular way.
People are advised against using products with additives, such as sweet smells and tastes, which could cause itching and irritation.
Keen attention needs to be paid to applying lip balms over what substances are being used, as they could come into contact with the mouth.
A view of two versions of Fation Derma Moisture Lip Balm: the colorless ¡°Pure¡± version, designed to be applied repeatedly without stickiness, and the color lip balm ¡°Rosy,¡± designed to give vigor to the lip with natural colors.
For instance, people are advised to ensure the inclusion of substances, such as plant oils designed to preserve moisture for a long time, and ceramide, conducive for skin barrier care, with no artificial flavoring additives.
¡°Fation Derma Moisture Lip Balm,¡± rolled out by Dong-A Pharmaceutical, is noted for managing dead skin cells softly through four moisturizing systems: skin softening and moisturizing effect, retaining moisturizing power, preventing dryness, and caring for lip skin barriers.
The latest product has a 90 percent portion of vegetable substances, offering moisturized lip care without worry over skin irritation.
Fation Derma Moisture Lip Balm has a colorless ¡°Pure¡± version, designed to be applied repeatedly without stickiness, and the color lip balm ¡°Rosy,¡± designed to give vigor to the lip with natural colors.
A Dong-A Pharmaceutical official said, ¡°If you ignore or do not give a ample moisture before and after make-up, Fation Derma Moisture Lip Balm is hoped to make the lip, being chapped and cracked easily in winter, moisturized and in healthy skin color.¡±