Winter is coming, and with it chapped lips - first aid and prevention
It's a short step from a subtle corner where any movement of your lips hurts to complete chapping. Having chapped lips, like any other skin problem, doesn't look good, and it's mainly painful and unpleasant.
The cold and dry air dries out your lips, which is unavoidable in winter. However, we can take a few steps to ensure that chapped lips go around in a wide arc:
- Ventilate frequently, especially in heated rooms, or use a humidifier, and avoid air-conditioned rooms
- Adjust your diet. B vitamins, riboflavin and niacin provide our skin with a large dose of nourishment. You can find them in dairy products, eggs, meat and fish. Also, don't forget about hydration regime and drink even if you don't explicitly feel thirsty.
- Everyone is tempted to lick their lips. It is enough to eat something tasty, or have a sweet balm on your lips… but try to resist this temptation. Relief will come, but it will only be temporary. Due to digestive enzymes in saliva, the lips, paradoxically, dry out faster.
How to treat chapped lips
Apply, apply, apply. As soon as you feel an unpleasant crack on your lips, take a balm from your handbag and grease your lips. We recommend lip balm Christmas by Wooden Spoon. This organic product will provide your lips with first aid. It contains a significant amount of beeswax, which creates a thin protective film and protects the lips from the cold and wind. Vitamin E heals chapped lips and organic butters regenerate them.
If lipstick is a must for you, it won't look good on chapped lips. Try applying lip balm with Alteya rose oil firstwhich will give your lips a natural shine and eliminate dryness. The balm will nourish the lips, giving them softness, beauty and a youthful appearance. At the same time, thanks to vitamins and fatty acids, it eliminates the pain caused by damaged lips.
If you want to give your lips great care, you can reach for a novelty from We love the planet. Velvet daily sensitive will provide your lips with intensive care and protection. Velvet shine is a vegan product where fruit wax has replaced beeswax, providing moisture to the lips. Both balms are ecologically packed in a paper tube.
You can find the complete range of our lip balms here.