Posts Tagged ‘dry lips’

January 6th, 2016 by Dr. Hannah Sivak

Why do you need anything? Aren’t your lips just like your skin? Not really. The skin of the lips, with their three to five cellular layers, is very thin compared to typical face skin, which has up to 16 layers. The lip skin does not have sweat glands or hair, so it does not have the usual protective layer of sweat and body oils which keep the skin smooth and somewhat protected. For these reasons, the lips dry out faster and become chapped more easily. And why the color? In people with light skin color, the lip skin contains fewer melanocytes (cells which produce melanin, which gives skin its color).…