It’s almost October, and the weather is cooler and drier. Autumn is dry, and my lips are a little drier than usual. Looking in the mirror this morning, Xiao Jiu found that his mouth was not only dry but also peeling. If someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder sees it, he may have started to tear it, but Xiao Jiu is a person who is afraid of pain, and as a healthy Xiaobian, I have to tell everyone that it is best not to tear the skin on his lips.
Tearing off the lip skin will have two major adverse consequences
The peeled lips are ugly
Our lips are not skin, but mucous membranes with thin epidermis. When the lips are dry and peeled, whether they are bitten by mouth or torn by hand, this will tear the thin epidermal layer, damage the capillaries under the epidermis, and cause bleeding and swelling. The blood clot forms a hard scab after coagulation, which affects the appearance for one reason, and the easy breeding of bacteria for infection for the other. Tearing and licking can easily cause chronic cheilitis
Chronic cheilitis is a chronic, non-specific inflammatory lesion of the lip, which is often caused by various long-term and continuous stimuli, such as dryness and cold, especially related to bad habits such as lip licking and biting.
This is a disease that greatly affects our lives. People with chronic cheilitis may look a little damaged on the surface, but in fact they are very painful. They can’t laugh, and they are dry.
Chronic cheilitis is clinically divided into two types:
Chronic desquamation cheilitis
Women before the age of 30 often have severe lower lip, mild desquamation, severe scaling, secondary infection and mild edema and congestion, and the condition lasts for months to years.
Chronic erosive cheilitis
The lips are erosive and exfoliated, with inflammatory exudates, forming yellow scabs, or coagulating into blood scabs after bleeding, or purulent secretions forming purulent scabs after secondary infection. It can heal temporarily but often recur.
Don’t tear or lick. When you lick your lips with your tongue, because the outside air is dry, the moisture brought by saliva will not only evaporate quickly, but also take away the less moisture in the lips themselves, resulting in a vicious cycle of licking the more dry and licking the more dry. In serious cases, pigmentation will appear on the skin at the corners of the mouth.
Correct Countermeasures:
In the face of dry lips and peeling, the correct way is to wet compress. Apply a clean wet towel to your lips to soften the dandruff slowly until you can gently wipe off the dead skin with a cotton swab. Never use nail clippers or scissors.
Several methods to prevent dryness of lips in autumn
Dry autumn, dry lips and peeling are normal phenomena. When this phenomenon occurs, we can improve it by artificial means and follow the principle of “one change, two supplements and three coatings”.
1. Change
It is very simple, that is, to correct the bad habit of licking and biting lips.
2. Mend
There are two reasons for dry lips, one is lack of vitamins and the other is lack of moisture.
If it starts to dry and crack from the corner of the mouth, there is white secretion from the corner of the mouth, which is a lack of vitamins. Then we should pay attention to eating more vegetables and fruits and avoid partial eating. You can also take vitamin pills appropriately, or apply vitamin E to your lips before going to bed at night.
Dry mouth and dry tongue caused by lack of moisture will accumulate dead skin on the lips or corners of the mouth. In this case, the solution is simple – drink more water. Our bodies need water more in autumn and winter than in spring and summer.
3. Smear
Both men and women should use lip balm to take care of their lips when their lips are dry and peeling, and try to choose lip moisturizing products with less irritating ingredients. People with allergic constitution can also moisturize their lips by applying sesame oil or honey with cotton swabs.
There are many cheap lipstick on the market. Xiao Jiu doesn’t recommend you to buy them. When buying, you should not only see the service life, but also the ingredients of clear lipstick.
The specific effects of common natural ingredients are as follows:——
Natural beeswax: beeswax is extracted from the beehive and has a very good moisturizing effect.
Natural vegetable oil: such as avocado oil, evening primrose oil, macadamia nut oil, etc., which has moisturizing effect and can make lips soft.
Vitamin E: it can prevent rough, cracked and wrinkled skin and improve peeling and dryness.
Plant essence extracts: Rose, calendula, chamomile, aloe, etc., of which rose has repair effect, chamomile has soothing effect and aloe has moisturizing effect.
The effects of common non natural ingredients are as follows:——
Vaseline (open fat): a small amount of Vaseline is harmless to the human body. When applied to the skin, it can help lock in moisture and form a protective barrier.
Mint: it has the functions of cleaning, cooling, anti-inflammatory and antipruritic.
Camphor: it has anti-inflammatory, analgesic and wound healing effects.
Among them, mint and phenol are the ingredients of lipstick that should be avoided. Although they have a cooling effect, they will make the lips dry. Camphor, salicylic acid, eucalyptus oil and peppermint oil are also ingredients that are easy to cause lip peeling.
In general, we should try to choose simple lipstick made of natural ingredients. The simpler the better.
Characteristics and effects of Different Lipstick shapes: Creamy lipstick
It’s convenient to carry and suitable for carrying around when going out. However, since most of the creamy lipstick contain more wax, its moisture is not so excellent.
Gel lipstick
Although the wax content is relatively small, because the paste is soft, it needs to avoid squeezing when carrying it. It is recommended to use it at home.
Creamy lipstick
Cream like lipstick is not recommended to take when you go out because it is inconvenient to apply, but it has a wonderful effect when you use it before makeup.
Moisturizing spherical lipstick
The spherical design of lip moisturizing can directly fit the lips, which is more healthy and hygienic than ordinary lipstick.
Tips：
① Lipstick should be used 2-3 times a day. Don’t rely on it too much. Lip dryness can’t be solved by applying lipstick frequently. It needs to be prevented by internal supplement and external adjustment.
② Try to choose lipstick with moisturizing effect, and use less or no colored lipstick. It’s simple and best. It is recommended to apply it before going to bed, which can moisturize the lip skin and reduce dry lines on the lip.
Everyone should take care of his delicate lips.
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