Dry peeling lips

Kold

The skins always peeling but especially in this weather. I usually give them a rub in the shower but does anyone know anything for this? Lipbalm never really seemed to do much for em.

LegacyUser

Carmex is good.

ibarelycare

Carmex, it's brilliant. You can get it in Boots and lots of chemists. Try to avoid licking your lips and don't rub the dry skin away as it will damage the skin underneath. Just keep applying loads of this stuff!

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c333/1HannaH23/carmex.jpg

af_thefragile

The Nivea "Repair & Protection" (the light green-ish one) works great:

This one:
http://www.pharmacy2u.co.uk/images/catalogue/medium/niveaLipcareRepair.jpg

Kold

Out of interests, will my lips normalise or I'll have to constantly apply this stuff?

Aloysius Flyte

You could be dehydrated. I know this weather doesn't help, but drink a litre of water and you'll be amazed at the results.

I don't use lip-balm anymore, I just drink 2 litres of water a day.

af_thefragile

Kold wrote: »

Out of interests, will my lips normalise or I'll have to constantly apply this stuff?

Mine don't, so i need to constantly keep applying that stuff. Though its not as bad in summer. I don't feel the need for all that in summer. Guess its the cold air which dries my lips or something.

But i think different people are different...

Monkey61

First thing is to make sure you are drinking 1.5-2 litres of water a day.

Next make sure you aren't licking your lips or unnecessarily wetting them during the day as water will dry them out even more! This includes in the shower - make sure you put some chap stick on as soon as you get out.

Labello, or the boots own brand chap sticks are great. As long as you are healthy and properly hydrated you shouldn't need to constantly apply them as much as you will at the start - but once or twice a day eventually, if even.

*Honey*

It's most definitely related to dehydration (check the colour of your urine, if very yellow, then you're very dehydrated... almost clear is well dehydrated). Lip balms will work in the short term but are only topical - you need to treat the problem from the inside out.

abi2007

Aloysius Flyte wrote: »

You could be dehydrated. I know this weather doesn't help, but drink a litre of water and you'll be amazed at the results.

I don't use lip-balm anymore, I just drink 2 litres of water a day.

Yup I agree.

LegacyUser

hey, i have this problem too, i only really noticed how much of a problem it was getting to be recently. because my lips would be dry and peeling, i'd end up biting them and then making it worse. basically you end up with tougher skin growing where the bits u bit off were and that'll make you more likely to bite at the harder bits and so it can go on and on for ages.

just being aware of it has helped me a lot, because i'd unconciously pick and bite at them, and like the other said drinking lots of water helps. at night sometimes i apply a thick layer of my hand lotion (which is just made from natural stuff, but still u don't want to be licking it off) and it helps them be softer in the morning than if i just used regular lip blam or chapstick or vaseline. then after my shower i use some 100% pure shea butter which is really rich and mosterising and is totally water proof so it stays on for ages and ages, even if u are licking your lips, so it helps a lot to stop them drying out. and then i make sure i have something like a chapstick with me during the day. but i heard that vaseline and petrolium and unnatural things can be worse for your lips than doing nothing, so i make sure i try to use natural stuff from health food places. it also makes sense because ur putting it on your mouth!
sounds mad maybe, but regular olive oil from your kitchen is really great too, and really cheap. sometimes i use that before bed aswell (less chance of licking it off if you're asleep).

Alicat

Drink plenty of water and ask in your pharmacy for Blistex Relief Cream or Cymex (not Carmex ). Both used for very bad cracked lips and much much better than the regular lip balms. Slather either on at night for an intensive treatment.

Also washing (even 'washing' your lips in the shower) actual removes moisture from the skin as it dries. Apply a decent balm nearly immediately after to lock in as much moisture as possible. Same principle applies to dry skin on your body.

kerash

Quite expensive but Vichy intensive care for dried out lips is excellent if nothing works.
Also - maybe not recommened on the tube but, the body shop hemp hand cream, put it on your lips at night - dont eat it! excellent stuff even on spots (not that I'd know:P)

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Kold wrote: »

The skins always peeling but especially in this weather. I usually give them a rub in the shower but does anyone know anything for this? Lipbalm never really seemed to do much for em.

Drink lots of water, you also might want to get Carmex, it's great stuff. Try not lick your lips and try not to bite the lose skin off. It only makes it worse

Remember, Carmex, none of this other expensive designer rubbish. It is just a load of crap.

Worth?

Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream is a complete life-saver for this, any kind of dry skin. Its 26quid for a tube of it but its a big tube so is so well worth it. I always suffer from dry lips and then they got particularly bad there recently I used this cream and it sorted it quickly. My friends and I swear by it.

LegacyUser

Carmex allllllll the way!

mashling

+1 on the Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream. It works miracles on dry lips and the tube doesn't look too girly.