The cold and wind will not forgive your lips! To keep your beautiful smile in winter, care them and apply mourishing balms. Here are our tips and product selections!
Why lips are so fragile?
At first gust of wind, lips deteriorate. The reasons for their vulnerability are:
- Lips are in the front line without the rest of the face.
- Cold, wind, temperature changes, air are aggressive for the lips.
- They contain less water and produce less sebum, the body’s natural lubrifiant.
- Saliva acidity is the biggest enemy.
- Your lips lack melanin, a pigment that protects skin from UV aggression.
How do we protect lips?
To avoid the cracking of the lips, you have to protect with balm. What qualities must have the lip balm:
- to contain fatty substance to keep the place of sebum in this sensitive area
- to allay irritation
- to repair crevices as soon as possible
The ritual of lip care in winter
As soon as the thermometer drops below zero degrees, take the following gestures:
- Wear with lip balm every night, thickly, before go to sleep.
- Use your lip stick several times a day.
- Avoid to powder your mouth to fit lipstick, because in this way you’ll dry it.
- Don’t wet permanently your lips with the tongue, because you’ll dry them even more
Lip Balms :
- Soin Reconfortant Levrea Essentielles (Vichy) – a balm with delicate fragrance of rose
- Baume Levres Reparateur (Le Petit Marseillais) – intense feeding
- Stick Levres Ictyane (Ducray) – protection from climatic stresses
- Soin Levres Bio (Cattier) – optimal hydration
- Lip Balm (Himalaya Herbals) – softens and protects lips due carrot seed oil and wheat germ extract