Do your outer lips get dry and ashy and crack during winter? Even during summer? Are you addicted to lip balm? Don't you find it annoying sometimes? Did you know that you can keep your lips from drying and cracking during winter by natural means? You can end your dependence on lip balm permanently. Here's how.
First of all , never use saliva to moisten drying and cracking lips. Saliva has digestive enzymes which make the cracking worse.
Secondly, every fall/winter as the weather gets cooler, the outer lip skin cells die and fall off. They are replaced by new winter-resistant cells. However, if you apply lip balm at this phase, you will smother the ability of the new outer lip cells to become weather resistant. In fact, by constantly rubbing in lip balm, you damage the new cells thereby reducing their functionality and life span. Therefore, as soon as you stop applying lip balm, you lips begin drying and cracking instantly. They feel uncomfortable and you are urged to apply more and more. You experiment with different brands and different flavors. Before you know it, you are addicted. Are you one of those people that go through that each winter and sometimes even during summer? I used to be but no longer. I haven't used lip balm in over ten winters and my lips don't dry out or crack.
Here's how I do it. I do not use saliva to moisten my lips. Every fall, as the weather cools and my lips dry out, I let the old cells fall off on their own. I moisten my lips with steam from my mouth. I do this by folding my lips firmly inwards, slightly open, then blowing slowly onto them. Do this as often as you deem necessary. It's like blowing steam on a pair of glasses. It's pure water coming from your body which, apart from being moisterizing, is also very gentle on your lips. The new lip cells therefore are allowed to mature naturally and would likely be more weather resistant.
Here are some additional tips for healthy lips. Drink enough water daily; 6-8 glasses. Take sufficient vitamin E (Cod Liver Oil, spinach and cucumbers are all good sources). If your lips feel dry on mornings when you just get up, don't open it at full stretch or too sudden because it may crack easily. Apply a little bit of tap water then begin your daily natural moisterizing routine.
Lastly, have confidence in your body's natural defences and use it. Remember your brain controls all of your bodily functions. Here's how it works. When your outer lip skin cells die and dry out, impulses are sent to your brain to instruct the moisture producing glands in your body to produce and supply more moisture to your lips. However, these impulses are not generated and sent to your brain when you use external moisturizers such as lip balm.
The application of lip balm therefore diminishes your body's natural ability to generate moisture producing cells that serve to protect your outer lips during winter. Besides, by ridding my dependance on lip balm, which can be lost or misplaced easily, I have also gotten over an addiction, (a nuisance) and an unnecessary expense. I therefore urge you to know and trust your body, train it well, eat right and it will not let you down. Just remember though: nothing lasts forever; so act now.
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