What the...? Blackheads on my lip-line??!

sweetcheeks33

I'd use a warm cloth as warm as you can bear and that will open the pores. A blackhead shouldn't be squeezed but skin rolled between fingers either side and the debris should come out easily. If not it's not ready. Also use a warm clean cloth and gently massage lips for some of the dry skin to come off and keep massaging lip balm to to lips to help heal. Also drink more water. We kick or lips more when we are dehydrated and this makes chapped lips in cold. I sympathise we all get it and it's bloody sore.

ginvzt

The honey should not sting - it never did for me. It is the first remedy that I go to if my lips are really bad and lip balm doesn't help.

Just try it - if it stings, just lick it off!!!!!

*~Zephyr~*

If your lips are chapped and sore, lip balm/beeswax/Vaseline WILL NOT heal them. You need this:



When mine are chapped, this sorts it out and within 48 hrs my lips are back to being soft and smooth. I can then go back to using lip balm to protect them.

owtfornowt_2

*~Zephyr~* wrote: »

If your lips are chapped and sore, lip balm/beeswax/Vaseline WILL NOT heal them. You need this:



When mine are chapped, this sorts it out and within 48 hrs my lips are back to being soft and smooth. I can then go back to using lip balm to protect them.

I'd second blistex lip balms. During the winter months I develop a second bottom lip and blistex is the only lip balm I've found which helps. I use both the relief tube when at home as it is quite creamy and the small blue circular tub balm when I'm out and about.

fairy_lights

I third the recommendation for Blistex, it really is very effective stuff.
Vaseline is the greasy work of the devil - it acts as a barrier but won't moisturise your lips at all. I used to use it religiously until I realised it was actually making my lips drier in the long run.
As for the blackheads, you should be able to gently squeeze them out when they're ready...I've always found it quite satisfying squeezing them out

adouglasmhor

A_Phoenix_of_Tangerine wrote: »

Do a Google search and look for a face wash which contains salicylic acid (not as scary as it sounds). Unlike most other face washes, which will only clean the very surface of your skin, salicylic acid will work through the oil into your pores, and will really hep to dissolve and clean out all those sebum plugs.

Off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure that Neutrogena may sell one, but there are sure to be more.

Good luck!

Salicylic acid is well known - it's just aspirin - so not very corrosive or dangerous.

jenniewb

Thanks everyone- the reason I'd not opted for saylicylic acid wasn't because of any fears over what it would do to my skin; it was because my lips which were millimetres away from the blackheads, were (as I've already said here) cracked and in one case, bleeding.
Sorry if it sounds daft but putting anything labelled "acid" near the cracks and bleeding places doesn't fill me with confidence. I've used saylicylic acid before, it's not a soft product to use.

jenniewb

fairy_lights wrote: »

I third the recommendation for Blistex, it really is very effective stuff.
Vaseline is the greasy work of the devil - it acts as a barrier but won't moisturise your lips at all. I used to use it religiously until I realised it was actually making my lips drier in the long run.
As for the blackheads, you should be able to gently squeeze them out when they're ready...I've always found it quite satisfying squeezing them out

Yes. I know this. But I've tried picking and aside from not being able to; my lips are/were cracked and very sore. Picking a blackhead on my lip line is not possible. (Hence the reason I'd posted.)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Elizabeth Arden eight hour cream also works brilliantly. I think they do a lip version, but a tiny amount of the real thing does the job and you get the cream for use on hands, elbows, feet, etc.

Rather than picking, I'd describe more as easing the gunk out by putting pressure either side with the back of your nails.

jen1301

owtfornowt wrote: »

I'd second blistex lip balms. During the winter months I develop a second bottom lip and blistex is the only lip balm I've found which helps. I use both the relief tube when at home as it is quite creamy and the small blue circular tub balm when I'm out and about.

I was just going to suggest blistex. It's an absolute life saver for me. Within an hour of using it my lips are much softer and it takes the soreness away.