Moisturize your Lips: 10 Tips for the Upcoming Cold Weather!

Moisturize your lips is key to maintaining a beautiful mouth. Cold weather tends to dry the lips and leave them chapped and rough. Such events occur because during the winter, due to low temperatures, wind and decrease of relative humidity of air, the skin loses moisture. Under pressure, unprotected, more sensitive and with its barrier function compromised, the appearance of damages such as cracks, chapped lips and chapped cheeks is quite common.

In this sense, if you want to maintain a careful and healthy-looking face, some essential care is required at this moment. Follow our tips and have smooth and shiny lips. Also know why it happens and which practices are forbidden.

Why do we get chapped and cracked skin?

Mouth chapping, also known as cracks or fissures in the skin, occurs when dry, less elastic skin is exposed to extreme conditions.

Since the skin is less elastic and thicker in areas that undergo frequent movement, it is natural that when irritated it affects, for example, the corners of the mouth, lips and eyelids. As well as the palms of the hands, fingers, and feet. It is to counteract the sudden drop in temperature that the complexion, in a forced way, tries to satisfy the increase of elasticity, becoming chapped and/or peaked. This scenario especially troubles those who are prone to dry, flaky skin.

10 Tips to moisturize your lips and have an attractive and soft mouth!

Care and good practice:

1. Apply a moisturizing lipstick before make-up, to regenerate and moisturize your lips. Alternatively, moisten them with wet cotton in warm water or apply oils with moisturizing and protective function.
2. Use a creamy lipstick instead of matte one that leave the lips more dry. Avoid long duration lipstick, the color will last longer, but your lips will turn drier.
3. Protect your lips from ultraviolet rays even on cloudy days and with minor sun exposure. Sun protection filters can be found in many lipsticks or balms such as Anthelios xl spf50 lip stick, from La Roche Posay.
4. Exfoliation is fundamental to eliminate dead cells, so you can show smooth and soft lips. Use an exfoliator made of sugar crystals, recommended by most experts, so you can achieve a beautiful mouth.
5. Honey is a natural substance that helps hydration. Due to its antiseptic properties it nourishes and protects lips skin, turning them softer. Honey based products like Nuxe’s lip balm is highly recommended for cracked lips.
6. Drink 1.5 to 2 liters of water per day and eat a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables. Hydrating the lips also passes through the hydration of your body. As we explained in an article in our blog, this tip is essential not only to maintain a beautiful mouth, but also to have a soft skin.

It’s forbidden:

1. Firing lip skins is an expressly forbidden practice. Biting the lips and abruptly removing the dry skin can cause sores and leave the lips fragile.
2. Don\’t moisturize your lips with the tongue. When the saliva dries up your mouth will be more dehydrated. To hydrate the lips at any time it’s always proper to have a cosmetic kit that includes a moisturizing lipstick.
3. Abandon habits that are no good for your health. Smoking and drinking alcohol leaves lips dehydrated and dark. The consequences may extend to your skin, hair and teeth.
4. Don’t use low-quality cosmetics. Cheap comes out expensive. Low-end make up may reveal itself an enemy of your lips and skin.

As mentioned earlier, due to the extreme sensitivity of the skin of the lips and the weather conditions experienced in winter, care such as the ones we suggest is essential.

Apply the tips above, moisturize your lips and keep them smooth and shiny.

Take care of your health and beauty. Take care of yourself.