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When it comes to facial skin care,
our lips our often the most neglected part of our face, even
though they need the most care. The skin on our lips only
contain three to five cellular layers, which makes it much
thinner than facial skin, which means it's also more sensitive,
to weather and other environmental conditions and to health
factors. It's also why most experts recommend a regular routine
of lip treatment. Whether it's as simple as keeping your lips
hydrated, or more significant like lip repair. With regular
maintenance, it's also often easy to include lip enhancement
with all the combination products on the market today.
Because they're sensitive, lips tend to dry out and chap more
easily than the rest of your facial skin; this is because they
don't have sweat glands to create an extra layer of protection.
This makes lips vulnerable to damage from environmental factors,
as well as more susceptible to the effects of aging, thus
resulting in a variety of conditions. Lips tend to wrinkle
faster, similar to how the sensitive areas around the eyes tend
to wrinkle. They also tend to lose their fullness, because the
collagen that's deep in the layers tends to breakdown faster in
the lips than in other areas of the face. Part of treating lips
in most cases involves stimulating collagen production to turn
back the effects of time on the breakdown of collagen fibers
underneath the skin.
One of the most easily acquired lip conditions, second only to
the natural process of aging, is sun exposure. With lighter skin
tones, the lips contain significantly less melanin pigment than
facial skin. This means that blood vessels appear closer to the
surface, thus giving lips a pinkish or red color. Melanin is the
pigment that helps to screen out damaging UV rays. Without this
protection, lips are easily exposed and at risk of burning. UV
rays can alter the appearance of lips as easily as they can
cause premature aging on the face. The sun can alter the levels
of collagen within the lips, diminishing it's natural
resilience. The thin cellular layers are eroded, damaged and
dried out due to UV rays. And so, wrinkles form more easily
around the mouth and lip area which can lead to premature aging.
Effective lip repair often includes lip treatment with sun
protection, in addition to collagen restoration, and hydration.
With additional antioxidant support, good lip treatment products
can give you the ability to have a good lip repair regime that
sets your lips on track to a more youthful healthier appearance.
Most of these lip treatment products are as easy to use as lip
gloss. The ones that are designed to be applied and worn
throughout the day are usually the ones that have a higher level
of sunscreen protection - some formulated to be worn under
lipstick or gloss, and some for use alone. There are also
many lip repair products that are designed to be worn overnight,
particularly focused on hydration and restoration.
DrSkinSpa.com, which carries a wide selection of lip enhancers,
is doctor owned and operated and can provide consultation to
help find the best product for your specific case.
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