What Causes Dry Lips? Common Mistakes & How to Fix Them

How the skin of your lips is different from the facial skin?

The skin of your lips has a lesser number of layers when compared to the facial skin. The persons with a darker skin will have more melanin pigment when compared to the lighter skin. This makes their lips to appear darker while, the lighter skin tone person’s lips appear red or pink as the blood vessels appear through the skin surface.

The lip skin doesn’t have hair and any kind of glands like sweat glands, oil secreting glands are absent in it. Thus, there is no layer of protection on it which makes it to get dry easily and makes it more vulnerable to dryness and against pathogenic bacteria. In comparison to the facial skin the lips get dried and chapped easily. So, it requires ingredients which can protect it from the outside environment.

The skin of lips should be hydrated and plumpy; it looks more dried and chapped which could be due to dehydration or any signs of ageing.

What is Lip oil and why do we require it?

It is made up of carrier oil which can benefit the skin of your lips. It will help you to maintain the hydration of your lips and gets rid of dry and chapped lips. It is having a very long-lasting effect which can give you hydration and nourishment at the same time.

How to use your lip oil for better hydration?

Gently exfoliate your lips using a good quality silicone lip scrubber or using organic sugar lip scrub. This step is really important as you need to get rid of the dead lip skin and if this step is skipped then, it may not heal your chapped, dry and flaky lips easily. This helps in improving the blood circulation and does better absorption of the products. It will ease the application and gives a neat, flawless application of lipsticks. This reduces fine lines and wrinkle appearance by boosting collagen production.

Apply a gentle amount of Ratanjot Lip Elixir | Hydrating & Healing Lip Oil for Dry Pigmented Lips. This keeps your lips plumpy and hydrated for a longer period of time and it serves the purpose of a lip primer.

Apply any kind of lipsticks, especially liquid lipsticks or any drying formula one can also work well after applying this as a base. This will give it a glossy finish and provides a nourishing base layer even if you need to apply the lipsticks for a longer period of time.

How Lip balms are different from lip oils?

Lip balms are good if you want to apply it all alone as it contains waxes which can efficiently prevent trans epidermal water loss from the lip surface. It also contains butters which can also help a bit in solving this purpose.

Tips to prevent drying lips

Most important tip is to avoid licking your lips as the saliva can give relief for an instance but, it can rapidly evaporate the water content of your lips and start irritating and damaging the lip skin. This causes to break the protective barrier of your lip skin due to the repetitive drying and wetting it with saliva.

Keep hydrating yourself in the summer and dry weather conditions.

Apply ghee, coconut oil or Nabhi Sutra Sensational Skin Care - Belly Button Oil in your belly button. This will prevent further chapping of your lips.

REFERENCES 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip

Bielfeldt S, Blaak J, Laing S, Schleißinger M, Theiss C, Wilhelm KP, Staib P. Deposition of plant lipids after single application of a lip care product determined by confocal raman spectroscopy, corneometry and transepidermal water-loss. Int J Cosmet Sci. 2019 Jun;41(3):281-291. doi: 10.1111/ics.12533. PMID: 31002377; PMCID: PMC6851866.