According to dermatologists, those perpetually dry lips could be the sign of a much bigger problem.
all day long to no relief from dry, chapped lips. You might think it's just a pesky side effect of cold or dry weather, or maybe even the result of ancause chapped lips. But apparently your chapped lips might be a sign of an even bigger issue altogether: dry skin., a New York City-based dermatologist puts it, the lips are thinner than the rest of your skin, so you can use them as a litmus test of sorts for your skin's hydration level.
"Lips lack a layer of skin called the stratum corneum, which is why they are extra sensitive and a perfect barometer for how dry the rest of the skin on the face is," she explains. The stratum corneum, by the way, is the outermost layer of the skin barrier, which means it's the skin's first line of defense against environmental stressors.moisturize the whole face
more frequently every day rather than just slap on some lip balm. "I tell my patients to 'read your lips,' meaning if your lips are chapped then [you need to] do a better, more frequent job of moisturizing the skin," she explains. Dermatologist [Bradley Bloom adds that simply drinking more water to hydrate skin is not likely to fix the problem of chapped lips.
"When the lips are dry they often have a burning or stinging feeling from microscopic breaks in the barrier, which people call 'chapped lips,' he explains. "In most cases, there is some external aggravating factor, such as licking one's lips chronically or an irritant or allergy from a topical used in the area," he says. By topicals, he means anything applied to or around the mouth, like lipsticks or even toothpaste.
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