It’s obvious that the skin on your lips is different to the rest of the skin on your face because your lips have a very different role to play.
Firstly, the upper layer of skin on your lips is much thinner and more delicate with just 3-4 layers of skin, compared with 15-16 layers on the rest of your face. The reason that our lips have a rosy tint to them is because lip skin doesn’t contain many melanin cells, so the blood vessels behind become visible.
One big difference between the skin on our lips and the rest of our skin is that our lip skin does not contain any
sweat glands or hair follicles. This can mean that the lips don’t get as much moisture or oils and dry out much more quickly. Using a moisturising lip balm like
NIVEA Lip Original Care on a daily basis will help replenish this moisture and keep lips looking beautiful.