Chapped Lips Remedies: What Type of Relief Should You Go For?

We’ve built up a list of the best relief types to go for to help you sooth the pain of winter and sore lips!

Sunscreen

Sunscreen chap sticks are great because they protect your lips from drying out in the winter sun. They will also sooth your lips in the winter. UV dries out your lips and while a little bit of sun is often good for our skin, the skin on our lips is particularly sensitive, even cause pimples on lips, sunburns, cancer or bacterial infection. Sunscreen brands now stock a range of lip balms and you will be able to easily find these in local supermarkets or pharmacies.

Look Out for Shea Butter

Shea butter is an amazing and hydrating ingredient that can be used all over the body, but has really great benefits when used in chap sticks on your lips. This ingredient is chock full of vitamin F, a great vitamin that helps hydrate your lips and in turn keep them smooth and healthy.

Olive Oil

This is something you can do to gently ease the pain of chapped lips if you don’t have a chap stick to hand. Using olive oil will smooth over your lips and stop them from hurting in the short term, and it’s also a good idea to dab on your lips while you’re sleeping. This way it gives the oil more time to soothe your skin while you’re dreaming of better lips.

Keep Hydrated

Chapped lips are dry lips, and dry lips come about a couple of ways. Of course the cold air outside and the dry air inside your home are a couple of sure fire ways to cause you pain, but you also get chapped lips because you are dehydrated. A lack of water in your body means that the whole of you can not get the hydration it needs, therefore stopping your body to function properly, and that includes the skin on your slips. While you’re applying balm, drink plenty of water too. This will help rehydrate your cracked lips back to full strength.

It’s really important to remember not to pick at chapped lips. Although it might be really addictive, it’s only doing you hard. You will end up causing healthy skin on your lips to come off and wilt, which isn’t good because that very skin is healthy and there to protect you. You’re essentially creating a cut from nothing and doing away with skin that is not ready to die. Try and resist the urge. Again, using balm may help you stop the urge to play with your lips.

The most important things are to remember are to stay hydrated, don’t play with skin that’s not ready to fall off and always keep in mind what your allergies are and whether these can be found in your balm. If you can find a natural chap stick without fragrance then this is certainly the way to go. These need not be expensive, but you get what you pay for. Be sure to stay away from Vaseline and petroleum jelly-based product in the long term, because this will not allow moisture to hit your lips.