Best Treatment for Wrinkles Above Lips

Lip lines can be some of the most difficult facial wrinkles to address with a standard skincare procedure. That is why it is important to address the appearance of wrinkles above lips and around the nose with additional care if you are serious about skin health.

Luckily, it is just a couple of extra steps added to the routine you already follow. You can do them at your morning or evening skincare session, whichever suits you best.

Lip Lines: What Causes Them?

The skin around the lips and mouth has a lot of fine muscles and needs to pull to make facial expressions, so small lines can look more pronounced with certain expressions. The collagen and elastin breakdown from aging and skin damage that affects your whole face winds up being no more severe around the lips, but its effect looks more pronounced.

When the skin contracts, lines that are small and fine when it is stretched look deeper and more serious. Minimizing or eliminating those lines requires more persistence and dedication than average, then.

Addressing Your Lips in Your Skincare Regimen

Wondering how you can deal with the appearance of wrinkles above lips or under and to the side of your mouth? Here is a basic plan for where to put your lip treatments in your skincare routine.

• A gentle full face cleanser like bareMinerals Pure Plush Gentle Deep Cleansing Foam
• Exfoliation on days that call for it
• Full face serums or specialty treatments
• Lip and eye serums or specialty treatments
• Full face moisturizer
• SPF protection

If you want to really push your efforts as far as they can go, consider adding a second moisturizer or a stronger SPF product around the lips and mouth than you use on the rest of your face.

Products for Plump, Healthy Lips

The next question has got to be what products to put into the spot you’ve made for lip treatments. There are quite a few choices, and some people simply choose all of them to make sure their treatment for wrinkles above lips and around the nose is as thorough as possible.

• Oil-free moisturizer
• Zinc oxide-based SPF
• Serum treatments specifically formulated for your lips
• Lip exfoliation products

Like the skin on the rest of your face, the lips and skin around them require everything from moisture and hydration support to regular exfoliation that takes dead skin cells away to allow your products to absorb directly into the healthy skin cells left on the surface.

Moisturizer and Sunscreen to Prevent Wrinkles Above Lips

A moisturizer with no oil in it is not necessarily a must-have for the whole face if you have dry or normal skin types, but oily and combination types may want to consider it. Around the mouth, an oil-free moisturizer avoids over-saturation when used in combination with your full-face application and other skincare tools.

You can find an oil-free moisturizer with the SPF you need to reduce the number of products you apply, too. The Juice Beauty SPF 30 Oil-Free Moisturizer that comes in a two-ounce size is one example of a perfect fit product for both SPF and additional moisture support that helps prevent lip line formation.

Lip Exfoliation Options

There are two primary ways to exfoliate the lips. You can either use a scrub that takes off dead cells with a gritty substance like sugar or a device designed to provide exfoliation through abrasion.

Scrubs are popular because they are often all-natural, but they are a little messy and they add another liquid product to the regimen. Products like the PMD Kiss Lip Plumping System provide convenient, easy exfoliation as often as you need it to prevent wrinkles above lips, and the PMD system also includes a lip plumping vacuum attachment to help you achieve the most kissable lips possible.

Pick a Lip Serum

Nourishing and hydrating serums are a great addition for any part of the face because they balance the skin’s water level while introducing vitamins and antioxidants that lessen the signs of aging. The PMD Lip Serum you can buy on its own is formulated to provide the balance your lips need and to go with the lip plumping system.

One of the biggest benefits of the plumping system is that it comes with a starter package of the serum so you can see for yourself how effective it is at diminishing wrinkles above lips. Remember, skincare is a long-term solution, so results may take weeks or months to fully develop. You can learn more about anti-aging treatments and wrinkle prevention from the LaLa Daisy Skincare Advisor.