Soothing Chapped Lips

Chapped lips are usually associated with winter months, cold weather, etc., but chapped lips can happen during the rest of the year also.  The sun can burn your lips, causing them to chap.  Dry air can dry your lips and cause them to chap.  So what can you do to ease the pain of chapped lips?First, you need to make sure you aren’t allergic to certain foods, or your lip gloss, lipstick or even the toothpaste you are using.  If your lips are chapped all the time or after you use these products, then you will need to see a doctor and you may need to change some of the products you use.

If you only have chapped lips during certain times of the year, such as wintertime, then try some of these tips to help relieve the pain that is associated with chapped lips.

• Keeping hydrated will help.  Drink lots of water or Gatorade.
• A drop of Johnson’s Baby Oil will moisturize your chapped lips.  Just a drop.  You won’t need much.
• Since most of us will keep licking our lips when they are chapped, which causes them to be more chapped, you need something that will moisturize and keep you from licking them.  Try Noxzema Original Skin Cream.  This is great for moisture, but taste horrible so you won’t be tempted to lick them.
• Vaseline Petroleum Jelly is great for a lot of things and using a small amount on your chapped lips will help soothe them.
• Using Lip Balm before going out into the cold weather and using Lip Balm with sunscreen when going out into the sun, will help prevent and heal chapped lips.  One of the best lip balm is Carmex.

You don’t have to suffer from chapped lips for very long and if you know the tricks, you can prevent chapped lips altogether.