The dry season, the lips are easy to peel, treat these annoying skin, many people like a “tear” of the, but tear the skin for a while cool, fell full of mouth injury. Chinese medicine teaches you to solve the root of the peeling.
Why are the lips prone to dry skin?
It turns out that the skin tissue structure layer on the lips is very thin, only 1/3 of the body skin thick. As it does not have sweat pores, no sebaceous glands, so it is particularly sensitive to the increasingly dry air, low temperatures and other environments in autumn. The dryness of the lips can cause visible lip lines, peeling epidermis, and loss of lipstick color, and even oily lipstick cannot make a difference.
A, lip problems, Chinese medicine, how to see?
1, the spleen meridian contains heat
The lookout Zun Jing says: “Lips withered, the disease is in the spleen …… lips withered without Ze, spleen heat.” Feeling heat or over-eating fatty, sweet, thick and greasy causes heat in the spleen meridian, heat burns the Jin injury, without the above to moisten the mouth and lips; the spleen opens the mouth, its Hua in the lips, too much speech hurts the Jin consumption of liquid, will lead to the mouth and lips withered, flaking chap, scorched and no Ze.
2, kidney deficiency loss of nourishment
High kidney deficiency, prolonged sickness, excessive room labor, causing the kidney’s yin and yang deficiency, yin deficiency fire burning on the top, then the tongue thin lip scorched; Yang deficiency cold Sheng in the bottom, qi and blood loss of warm transport, can not be on the glory, then the mouth and lips dry, no luster, wrinkles.
3.Insufficient qi, blood and fluid
Suwen – Five Organs Generating Chapter: “The spleen is also the flesh, and its lips.” Weakness of the spleen and stomach due to inappropriate diet, lack of power to transport and transform, lack of qi, blood and fluids; or feeling heat, heat exhaustion and fluid depletion; or excessive sweating and vomiting, excessive loss of qi, blood and fluids, which cannot be glorified on the lips, resulting in pale or light white lips, dry lips and cracked lips. Spleen deficiency cannot control the blood, the blood does not run properly, the blood does not return to the meridian can cause bleeding, too much blood loss is pale lips. Spleen in color is yellow, spleen qi deficiency, then the mouth and lips are yellow.
4: Feeling the evil of wind and cold
The cold nature leads to stagnation, resulting in astringent Qi, fluid deficiency and blood deficiency, which cannot be glorified on the lips, or by licking, the lips and mouth become dry and chapped. The source of the disease “said:” lip mouth face chapped, cold when touching the wind and cold, cold folded couples, hurt their skin, so chapped. The meridians of the meeting, are in the face, the veins have a ring lip clip in the mouth. If the blood is real, although the strong wind and severe cold, can not be injured; deficiency is the coup open and subject to evil, so the wind cold and chapped.”
5, lipstick, lipstick application improper or lip disease
The use of poor quality lip balm, lip gloss, or apply for too long, can also lead to the occurrence of acute and chronic lip inflammation. Lip wind, lip sores and other diseases in the later stages of the disease, but also dry, flaky or even chapped lips.
Second, the top five lip maintenance tips
1, gentle cleaning of the lips
The skin of the lips is more sensitive, so when choosing a makeup remover, try to choose a mild nature. Use fully moistened lip remover cleaning cotton gently pressed on the lips for 5 seconds, then divide the lips into four areas, from the corner of the lips to the middle of the light wipe.
2, remove dead skin
Removing dead skin from the lips is also an indispensable step in lip maintenance. Lip-specific exfoliating products generally contain cool mint formula, in order to make the lips smooth and moist at the same time, but also has a repair and calming effect, once a week can be.
But if your lips are already puckered up, don’t panic. Use hot steam to steam your lips for 3 minutes, then use a hot towel for about 1 minute to “melt” the little skin away, and say goodbye to the little wrinkles.
3.Lip massage
Massage lips can also let you have beautiful lips. The method is.
(1) thumb and index finger pinch the upper lip, index finger does not move, thumb gently knead;
(2) Pinch the lower lip with your index finger and thumb, keep your thumb still, and massage the lower lip with your index finger.
Massage the upper and lower lips rhythmically in the opposite direction with the above method and repeat several times, which can reduce the horizontal wrinkles of the lips. If you have vertical wrinkles at the corners of your mouth, then rubbing the middle fingers of both hands from the center part of your lips to the corners of your mouth on both sides will give the skin a feeling of being stretched. First the upper lip, then the lower lip, can be repeated several times.
4.Carry lip balm with you
To prevent dry lips from peeling and lip lines, you must carry lip balm with you, especially lip balm with vitamin E ingredients, which can moisturize your lips at any time to prevent them from peeling. When choosing a lip balm, pay attention to the choice of moisturizing effect for a long time is not easy to take off the color of the lip balm, the lip damage is small.
5, change the lip vices
First of all, do not go to the lips with saliva to lick the lips when the skin is dry, this wetness is temporary, and can not really relieve dry lips; secondly, is not often bite the lips, especially when the lips peeling more can not use teeth or hands to tear it.
Tips.
(1) If the dry lips are cracked or mis-colored due to disease, the primary cause should be treated first.
(2) Do not use poor lip cosmetics and do not take care of them in non-professional beauty salons.
(3) Prevent damage to the lips from inappropriate text, embroidered lip lines and red lip bleaching. Wash your lipstick off at night.
(4) Avoid bad habits such as frequent licking of lips, lip biting and smoking.
(5) Drink a moderate amount of water to keep your body well hydrated; adjust your diet reasonably and eat more foods rich in vitamins A, B and C.
(6) Be careful against wind and cold in winter, wear a mask when going out.
(7) Use lipstick with sunscreen in all seasons.