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Blistex has a wide selection of lip care products. Anything from normal, clear, unscented stuff, to medical, healing stuff and even one that gets the wrinkles out of you lips and makes them look younger!

Lips are very important to the rest of the face. Your lip ''skin'' is not the same as your other skin. Lips get chapped because they don't have their own source of moisture. Sweat Glands add moisture to normal skin, but your lips don't sweat, their only source of moisture is saliva. Thus, harsh winter wind, cold, sun, and dryness--indoors and outdoors--make lips a vulnerable target for chapping.

DRY CHAPPED LIPS -

The most common lip problem is dry, crusty lips. As a result of the properties of lip skin, moisture rapidly evaporates from the lips, causing them to dry out very easily. This dryness frequently results in chapping and cracking, and increases the risk of inflammation, infection and burning. Exposure to sun, wind and cold can obviously speed the rate of moisture loss, your lips aren't even safe indoors. They can suffer from lack of moisture in centrally heated or air-conditioned rooms in which the relative humidity is low.

COLD SORES AND FEVER BLISTERS

Both names, cold sore and fever blister, refer to the lip blisters caused by infections of the herpes simplex virus. These infections are associated with Herpes Simplex I (not to be confused with Herpes Simplex II, which is generally associated with genital herpes). Cold Sores are viral infections which cause recurrent groups of irritating, even painful blisters on the lips. A cold sore sufferer usually feels a sensation of heat, tingling, irritation or itching about 24 hours before a blister appears. The fluid filled blister frequently breaks in the first few days, while total healing usually takes 4-10 days.

Cold sores are contagious, so care should be taken to avoid contact with this area. Touching the infected area may result in infection elsewhere, and the virus can be passed to others.

These blisters have become known as cold sores or fever blisters since they can develop when a person has a cold or fever. But outbreaks frequently follow sun exposure, trauma, examination stress, emotional discomfort, the start of menstruation or intestinal upset--occasionally, they have no obvious cause at all.

SUN DAMAGE

Because the outer layer of the lip is so thin, the lips in their natural state are not adequately shielded from the sun. In fact, lips have almost no melanin, the natural pigment in skin that helps screen out the sun's harmful rays. As a result, lips rarely tan, but they can easily burn.

Even licking lips can be more detrimental than helpful, since saliva acts like a lens to intensify sun exposure. And because lips are located on the face, they are rarely covered, and thus constantly exposed to sun damage.

When unprotected lips are exposed to too much sun, the collagen changes, causing lips to wrinkle and fine lines to form around the mouth. Even when lips show no physical signs of the sun's effect, damage can occur. Just because you don't see a surface burn doesn't mean that the underlying layers haven't been harmed.

Young lips (children's and teens') are especially vulnerable. Studies have shown that UV over-exposure during the first 18 years of life can cause the damage that later results in adult skin cancer.

To prevent sun damage to lips, look for lip products with sunscreen. Many Blistex lip product contain sunscreen, just look at the label!

I just have to say that I love all blistex products. But my favorite is the orignal Blistex complete moisture. When you put it on, its just such a beautiful feeling of moisture and it has a light smell and taste of something lemony. ITS GREAT!

abby

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