How to Choose Sunscreen for Your Lips

You may have heard assertions about the dire importance of sunscreen for every day use on your face, hands and other exposed parts of your body. This is not exaggerated. Sunscreen can protect the look and feel of your skin for years to come as well as reduce the damaging and deadly chances of skin cancer. Your lips are just as important to protect, but you can't exactly smear regular sunscreen on your mouth. So how do you protect your lips? Read on.

Instructions

1. Read the labels of your favorite lipstick to see if it offers SPF protection. If not, you can either apply protection over it, or ditch it for an all-in-one brand.

2. Buy Chapstick or lip gloss that offers SPF protection if you are not a lipstick girl.

3. Apply protection to your lips regularly, following suggestions on the tube. Apply more often if you lick or bite your lips.

Tips & Warnings

• Lipstick can come in protective formulas as well as great shades. Look for lipstick that is all in one for the best value.

• Apply at least once an hour when you are in the sun on the beach or in the snow where UVA rays reflect off of the ground.

• Do not rely on one application to last all day. Your lips will suffer for it!