Winter arrives with plenty of cozy gifts– the cold breeze, hot chocolate, hoodies, and…. Dry Chapped Lips, Oops! I mean the combination of chilly air outside and heated environment inside plot together to make lips chapped and flaky. But with the appropriate care and routine, you can turn this conspiracy into a gift. Our lips cannot hydrate themselves, they do not contain any oil or sweat glands so it becomes extra necessary to pamper them during winter.

How to Prep Lips before winters?

Prevention is better than cure! If you start taking care of your lips well in advance, before the winter season arrives, you can protect them from unnecessary damage and pigmentation. You can follow a proper lip care routine by Cleansing, Exfoliating, Moisturising, and Treating your lips to prevent them from getting chapped and flaky!

Make sure their foundation is strong enough for the chilly days ahead, and ensure well-prepped lips before winter.

10 ways to take care of your lips this winter

Don’t Rub, Bite, Pick or Lick Your Lips 

Saliva is a notorious enemy, not a friend. However tempting and irresistible it may seem, You must resist the urge to do so. It makes your lips much worse. Saliva contains enzymes that dry out the lip skin! Especially when they are itchy or flaky instead, gently exfoliate with a mild Lip scrub to remove the dead skin cells. Try for distractions like a piece of chewing gum!

Drink loads of Water and Stay Hydrated

Any amount of lip care will fail to give effective results unless your skin is adequately hydrated. Drink plenty of water and hydrate yourself with juices and shakes! 

Avoid Excessive Chemicals in your Lip Routine

This could increase the risk of Lip Pigmentation. Check every ingredient before using the product and do a patch test before applying it wholesomely. Some chemicals suit a person and some do not. But do not get scared of it too! Excess is dangerous but just the right amount of chemicals get the job done effectively! 

Go for Organic and Skin Safe Ingredients

Choose products that contain organic, non-comedogenic, cruelty-free, and natural ingredients that are hydrating, skin-safe, and non-allergic! 

Follow a Daily Regimen, Cleanse, Exfoliate, Moisturize and Treat!

The key is to cleanse the lips and remove all the dust.

Then exfoliate it mildly to remove the dead skin cells and make the lip skin smoother.

Lock it away with a Lip Balm or Lip ButterMask to seal the moisture and keep your lips hydrated.

Protect them from Excessive Sun Exposure

Sun plays a major role in damaging lips! As much as vitamin D is essential for the body, UV rays make lips dull, dry, and pigmented! Protect them using an SPF to ensure that the UV rays do not harm them!

Have a healthy diet with all the key nutrients

You are what You eat, So eat responsibly such that it gives a boost to your lip care products from within and you have an upper head to heal lips much more efficiently!

Include vitamins, minerals, and zinc into your diet, and have a sound mind along with a healthy lifestyle to get desired results! 

Avoid Using a Matte Lipstick

Matte Lipsticks contain ingredients that dry out the lip skin! this could soak out all the moisture from your lips and make them chapped, especially when the weather is chilly!

Check on the Product’s Expiry Date

Certain chemicals have a shelf life of about a period; beyond that, they lose their chemical composition! Expired Products attract Bacteria, Fungi, etc, which harm and irritate the Lip skin, and can cause itching around the area. Be extra mindful if you have sensitive skin. Always check for expiration dates as well as manufacturing ones!

Use a Humidifier at home

Cold air sucks out the moisture from your skin and lips, which makes the skin dull, dry, flaky, and age prematurely.

Humidifiers add back moisture to the air and the skin! You can have it inside your room to maintain the humidity levels! 

Product Recommendations - Ways to beat dry & chapped lips

Look for products that are rich in moisture and contain skin-nourishing ingredients like glycerine, olive squalane, shea butter, cocoa butter, and emollients that provide deep seed hydration and penetrate inside the lip skin to heal them! It would be impeccably beneficial to the lips, especially during the winter season!

Search for Lab-proven actives- Palmitoyl Tripeptide - 38 and Pracaxi Seed Oil which lightens lip pigmentation and plumps lip lines.

You can try ButterMasks to make your winters hydrated, and moisturised and to treat them with the utmost care. They contain the goodness of pure roasted ghana cocoa, wheat germ oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, and olive squalane that provides 10x hydration throughout the day for bright, soft & pink lips. 

Applying Night ButterMask ensures lips get the goodness of the product without any disturbance or sun interruption and heal overnight as you sleep!

Products or ingredients to avoid during winter

Camphor, Eucalyptus, Lanolin, Menthol, Fragrance-based products, Octinoxate or oxybenzone, Phenol (or phenyl), Propyl gallate, etc. are a Big NO! NO! During the winter season, especially when you suffer from dry, dark, and chapped lips. Watch out for them and avoid them as much as you can.

Conclusion

 With the endless advice spread over the Internet, It can be a little too challenging to decide what to follow and what not to. How to find that one suitable product? Or how to club lip products in a regime? The best lip balm for winter or the best lip moisturizer? 

The key here is to pick up a routine catering to your lip needs and desires. Have a proper regimen and keep your lips hydrated and nourished, you would surely save yourself from lip treatments and surgeries.