Cheilitis: What to pay attention to when choosing lipstick? Can Vaseline cure cheilitis?

When choosing lipstick for cheilitis, you should be careful to avoid lip balms with some irritating ingredients. Try to choose safe and gentle lip balm to achieve the effect of moisturizing things silently. You can try using Vaseline, which has a therapeutic effect on cheilitis. Let’s take a look at the effects of Vaseline.

Things to note when choosing lipstick for cheilitis

The symptoms of cheilitis are redness, swelling, itching, dryness, and yellow fluid discharge from the lips. There are many reasons for this condition, including genetic factors, infection, bad living habits, cosmetics, drug stimulation, etc. When this happens, not only can you not put on makeup, it is also extremely painful and affects your quality of life. When choosing lip balm, you need to pay attention to choosing a lip balm with a mild texture and pure natural plant gel.

Selection Guide: Gel lip balm contains relatively less wax and is in a semi-solid gel form. Its nourishing ingredients are higher than those of cream lip balm, so the effect will naturally be more moisturizing and its repair ability will be stronger. It can improve the problem of dry and dehydrated lips in a short period of time and can repair cheilitis in time. It is suitable for morning and evening use.

Can Vaseline cure cheilitis?

You can use vaseline. It is recommended to take riboflavin (5 mg of vitamin B2, 3 times a day for 2 weeks, which can generally cure the wound. You can apply 1% gentian violet to the wound surface twice a day. After using gentian violet, if the wound surface is dry and cracked and uncomfortable, you can apply chlortetracycline eye ointment or oxytetracycline ointment to the dry and cracked area, or apply a little peanut oil or rapeseed oil. But you must not use hormone ointments (such as Fuqingsong, cortisone, etc.). You can also apply steam water on the lid of the pot to the wound surface, 3 times a day, and it will be effective after 2-3 days.

What are the functions and effects of Vaseline

① When the weather is dry, apply it to the face, hands, feet or body skin to moisturize.

②Apply to the nasal lining to avoid bleeding due to dryness, or apply to the inner wall of the nostrils to stop further bleeding for those with nosebleeds.

③It can be used as lip balm on lips, and its oil ingredients can keep lips moisturized.

④ When you have a cold, apply it to the skin around your nose to prevent it from turning red due to excessive friction from blowing your nose.

⑤It can prevent eczema caused by long-term contact of wet diapers with the skin.

⑥ Even patients with oral ulcers can first dry the affected area with a tissue and then apply a layer of Vaseline. This can prevent the ulcer from coming into contact with the acid in the mouth and speed up the healing of the ulcer.

⑦ It is said that people who suffer from dyshidrosis may see improvement after applying Vaseline on their hands before going to bed and wearing thin cotton gloves overnight.

⑧ Vaseline is stable and not easy to deteriorate. It is also non-irritating and not easy to cause human allergies. Because of its light smell, it is suitable as a moisturizing product for people who are allergic to fragrances or alcohol additives.

⑨ Keep the skin tissue at the wound site moist and reduce air contact, so as to maintain a high level of self-repair ability and reduce the risk of scarring.