When it comes to embarrassing social scenes, besides halitosis, farting in public, vegetable leaves on teeth… [peeling lips] must have a name.
For example, I was just about to have a French kiss with my other half: [Wow, your mouth is so dry that your skin hurts me], and I suddenly had no interest.
One second I was still chatting confidently with my colleagues, and the next I looked in the mirror: my mouth was full of lip skin, and I couldn’t tear it clean.
Lips, as a social expert who can eat, talk, kiss and show sex appeal, are not as strong as we thought, but are more likely to be injured by external stimuli.
Today, please come to Mr. Hu Xiaobo to tell us about lip care.
Lips, Vulnerable Groups in Human Organs
Lips are a unique presence in our skin.
It is the Chu River and Han boundary between facial skin and oral mucosa: the outside of lips belongs to normal skin, with stratum corneum, sebaceous glands, sweat glands, etc.
The oral cavity inside the lips contains oral mucosa composed of epithelial cells, not to mention [self-protection], even drinking hot water is easy to burn.
Why can’t even keep the water on the lips that drink water every day?
Some scholars have done some tests on the lip skin and found that the blood flow rate and temperature of the lip are higher than those of the cheek skin.
Because there are no sebaceous glands in the lip area, the speed of transdermal water loss (TEWL) is about 3 times that of the cheek area-no wonder our lips are especially prone to drying! It is naturally even more difficult to lock water with your lips.
Lips, can’t stand this [ordeal]
In addition to fast water loss and difficulty in locking water, delicate lips also face many external threats:
1. Lick lips and tear dead skin: Chronic deterioration
Some people have peeling lips and are used to licking or tearing dead skin.
These methods are just to lift the soup to stop boiling: licking the lips, the saliva left on the mouth will take away more water in the evaporation process; Tearing dead skin may not only tear the lips, but also make the lips [dry] or even escalate into inflammation.
2. Ultraviolet: Invisible Killer
As a skin killer, ultraviolet rays will not treat lip skin differently.
As soon as ultraviolet rays are exposed to the sun, damaged cells in the lips are easy to lose water, and inflammation and pigmentation follow one another.
3. Salty food: lip [absorbent sponge]
After eating hot pot, do you always feel wrinkled lips and thirsty?
This is because food that is too salty, like a [sponge], sucks away water from the body and also damages the lip skin.
Grasp the following 3 points to make your lips have [armor]
Lips are congenital [vulnerable groups], but targeted care and repair can also have attractive [jelly lips].
1. Prevention of chapped lips: Healthy diet
The chapped lips may be an alarm of lack of water in the body.
To be an excellent lip protector, [drink more water + eat more vegetables and fruits] is the most direct way.
2. Repair chapped lips: Careful care
If you want to repair the chapped lips, the appropriate method is: after gently wiping with warm water, choose a mild lip balm with moisturizing effect, and give your lips an SPA to make them moist;
At the same time, avoid sunlight, air conditioning or irritating food.
If the damaged lips become more serious after three days of care, consult a professional dermatologist.
3. Simple and easy-to-do maintenance: Apply lip balm
Lipstick can not only protect the lip skin, but also provide a base for lip makeup, which can easily hide the ravines on the lips.
In particular, lipstick containing sebum-like components and jojoba-like oil can form a protective film on the skin to repair the skin barrier.
If lipstick contains vitamin E, ceramide, red myrrh alcohol and other antioxidant, repairing and soothing ingredients, it is like protecting lips and can better resist various attacks from the environment.