Lip Gloss Effect on the Risk of Lip Cancer

Many people asked whether the use of lip gloss can be one of the factors that lead to lip cancer. Based on various sources, it turns out the answer to this question is yes. Therefore, if you frequently use it, you must begin to be careful from now on because it may increase the risk of lip cancer. The best step for those are considered as a lip gloss lovers are covering your lips with a balm that protects your lip skin from the sun before using a lip gloss. It aims to protect the lips from exposure of harmful ultraviolet rays.

Dr. Christine Brown (A dermatologist) said that the use of something on lips that can polish them have a high probability for light to penetrate lips surface, and the worst is that most people do not realize this and continue to use anything as a makeup. But still there is a debate about how the effects of a dense and dark gloss on the risk of lip cancer, whether it is safe or not remains to be studied any further. If you prefer health than anything, you can take the safest side to be careful to coat your lips with SPF. Dr. Christine Brown also suggested to use a lip protectors with SPF 30 (higher is better) when you are exposed to sunlight for 20 minutes or more. Most famous balms that often offered to you, usually only have an SPF of 20 or even lower it. It is still not enough to protect lips surface from sun light. Hence, to find a protective lip with proper SPF is a good prevention of lip cancer risk, you should be more careful in finding the right lip care. You can look at any drug stores, usually they provide a product that has the same quality as those offered in the department store with cheaper prices.

Thus, the most important thing you need to remember is that you must use a minimum of protection to your lips with SPF 30 or more when you are outdoors. You might expect that there will be a gloss product with high SPF and pretty enough to protect your lips from the effects of light, until that time comes you may have to wait for them by use some glosses that available for makeup only. So, be careful at SPF level of lip gloss you want to buy.

To prevent lip cancer, you need to know the factors that increase the risk of lip cancer such as sunlight exposure that I described above. But that was not enough, you also need to have a habit to check lips condition whether you have signs that indicate you are suffering from lip cancer. You have to watch them like when you have some severe acne or have an existing mole on your skin. The signs are such as the lips surface are always peeling, discoloration of the lips are not normal, it can’t heal any scars on lips surface for a long time, have numbness, pain, or unexplained bleeding on lips and it apply to mouth as well. By doing all these, it means you have watched for your body's health, especially protection against lip cancer.