Do Your Lips Need Sunscreen?

Protecting Your Lips Against the Sun

A common misconception is that the lips on a person's face do not need protection from the sun. This is untrue, and people definitely need protection for their lips against the sun. Lips can become sunburned and excessive exposure to the sun's rays has been linked to lip cancer.

Protecting Your Lips from the Sun

The best way to provide protection against the sun for our lips to apply a lipstick, gloss, or balm that contains sunscreen.

Our favorite lipsticks, lip balms and glosses are:

• Burt's Bees Lifeguard's Choice From BurtsBees.com: "Guard your lips from the drying effects of the sun, wind and sea. Lifeguard’s Choice Lip Balm is similar to our beeswax lip balm, with added titanium dioxide for extra protection. While the lifeguards are out saving lives, we’re out saving lips."
  
  
• Chaptick Ultra SPF 30 COntains UVB/UVA protections with an SPF 30. It has a nice lemony falvor also.
  
  
• Aveeno Essential Moisture Lip Conditioner with SPF 15 Perfect for dry, chapped lips that need protection for the sun. This is good for skiing.