Winter Skin Care Blog

Every time the winter season pops up, all of us are having a little problem with our skin and majority feel problems related with the lips too. Lips have an extremely thin outer layer and few oil-producing glands, which can lead to excessive dryness. Dry chapped lips are a common problem in winter. Soft and smooth lips figure among the foremost indicators of physical beauty. The most important step you can take to achieving the sexiest lips ever is to protect them from the sun. The best protection against sun damage is a water resistant lip balm that keeps lips moist and has an SPF of 15 percent or higher.

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During winter, our skin faces the worst time. The humidity is dehydrating and the cold temperature stresses the skin and weakens the skin’s protective barrier and causes more water to evaporate. The skin reacts to this by redness irritation and hypersensitivity and chapping.
Steamy hot shower although soothing, is harsh to the skin. This washes off the natural moisture of our skin and dries it. It is only one of the problems. If you have oily skin, during winter, this may become normal. But if you have normal skin, the tendency is for it to become dry. Solutions for this are to apply milder cleansing and choose rich moisturizers.
Emollients are the most important for skin care during this season. It does not only moisturize and softens your skin but also forms a protective layer to its surface to keep the moisture locked and prevents the skin from dehydration.

Just as skin needs exfoliating, so do lips. Banish dryness and cracked lips with these unanimous favorites.

Sara Happ Lip Scrubs are said to be the original lip scrubs. They come in six irresistable variants: cocoa, cinnamon sugar, brown sugar, vanilla bean, almond creme, and peppermint. You can’t go wrong with them.

Sugar-based Smashbox Emulsion Lip Exfoliant has a peppermint taste. It has shea butter, jojoba, and antioxidants to add the oomph to your smashing lips.

It takes two, according to Benefit. Lipscription paired up its exfoliator with a lip balm. A smart combination that won’t make you pout.

Finally, kiss me exfoliating lip scrub from philosophy kisses the flakiness and vertical lip lines away with this popular remedy.

Several people may try to avoid the less organic variety of lip balm and opt for those beeswax-based or carnauba-based lip balms. Beeswax is a form of natural wax produced by young worker bees used to build honeycombs. Carnauba is also a natural wax but produced by palms Carnauba. The wax derived from the leaves is also known as the queen of waxes and comes in hard yellow-brown flakes.

Unfortunately, there are some people who have allergic reactions to beeswax or any other products that come in touch with pollen. People should take extra precaution when handling these “natural” lip balms.

Being one of the most sensitive areas of the body, the lips deserve as much attention as any other part of our body like our hair or our face. For starters, the skin on the lips is the thinnest found on the entire body. This makes them extremely prone to sun, heat, and wind exposures.

A method most commonly used by people is licking their lips to rehydrate them. Unfortunately, this only aggravates the dehydration process since saliva evaporates more quickly, leaving the lips as parched as ever. Lip balms contain ingredients that lock the natural moisture in and form a protective surface around the lips.