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Preventing and Healing Chapped Lips
Winter weather has settled in for good, and I'm sure you've rebelled by cranking up the heat in your homes, cars, and offices. While the heat keeps us warm, it also takes moisture out of the air causing dry skin. Delicate areas are especially affected, like lips since they don't secrete any oils.
Protect Your Lips From the Sun
When you go outside to enjoy the warmth and sunshine, you've got to protect your lips from the sun's harmful rays. That skin can get sunburned too, and excessive exposure could cause lip cancer. Just as you apply sunscreen to your skin, you need to apply sunscreen to your lips.Can You Get Lip Cancer From the Sun?
You lather on the sunscreen all over your face and body, but what about your lips? Is it necessary to protect them as well?
Can You Get Lip Cancer From the Sun?
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Would You Buy Weight Loss Lip Gloss?
There are so many weight loss products out there it is hard to decipher from those that work and those that don't. Some products, however, make it very easy to say, "Save your money."
Beautiful lips-skinny hips is the slogan for Joey New York LipFIT Lip Gloss ($15.00), which is a lip gloss that apparently curbs appetite.
Shiny Lips = Skin Cancer Risk
We all want lovely, shiny lips, but those beautiful balms and glosses might just be putting your pouty mouth at risk for skin cancer.
Not only do shiny lip glosses and lip balms offer no sun protection, new research shows that they may actually attract dangerous sun rays, making it easier for damaging UV rays to penetrate the lips. Since lips are more sensitive to aging and sun damage than skin, it is important to protect them, yet only about 25 percent of Americans do.
Burt's Bees: On Your Lips and in the News
As I've said before, Winter can be brutal on your skin. The wee bit of humidity in the air evaporates when we blast our heat, and we're left with itchy, dry skin. The dry manufactured heat also does a number on sensitive lips.
Fuze Slenderize Lip Gloss: Cool or Not?
Fuze, the weight loss beverage favored by Jessica Simpson, has expanded its market to lip gloss. Not just any old lip gloss mind you, it's FUZE Slenderize Guilt Free Lip Gloss ($18.50). Now this is not the first time we've seen weight loss lip gloss, but this is the first time we've seen one by FUZE.
Gear Review: SPF 15 Lip Gloss by Clinique
I know a few of you hardcore athletes might scoff at the idea of lip gloss being gear, but this gloss offers sun protection along with color, and that is why I am ranking it as gear. Lips should be treated like skin and protected from the sun's rays. Most shiny lip gloss actually attracts the sun, making it easier for harmful rays to penetrate the delicate flesh and causing skin cancer on your kisser.
5 Things: Preventing Chapped Lips
When it's super cold out, we crank up the heat inside. This keeps us warm but can totally dry out our skin, especially lips since they don't secrete any oils. Here are some ways to prevent them from getting painfully chapped or cracked.
Lip Balm Really is Addictive
Raise your hand if you can't go anywhere without your lip balm? (My hand is raised.) If you are one of those folks who is constantly applying lip balm, you may actually be addicted to it because your lips become so accustomed to having more moisture content than they had in the past.
Good news though: Being addicted to lip balm is really no big deal unless you develop an allergic reaction to the ingredients.
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