Not just lip service: Gloss can invite skin cancer

Melissa Dahl

Health writer

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Right now, 23-year-old Laura Brown have at least six lip rubrics on her. They’re inch her backpack, her purse, her pocket, her constitution bag â€" and just in case, she maintains a couple of spare parts at her desk and in her bathroom.

Brown, who dwells in College Station, Texas, presumes she takes very good attention of her lips. She passes enough money on them, anyway. (A tubing of her go-to brand, Mac, can be as much as $20.) And she’s always gooping something on her lips. That’s got to be adequate of a barrier between her tegument and the sun. Right?

But some tegument doctors state that slathering on glistening lip rubrics can actually increase your hazard of developing skin cancer. Of course, wearing any lip merchandise without SPF doesn’t exactly screen the thin tegument from sun damage. But the slick, glistening nature of the gloss could be making the sun’s ultraviolet beams hit harder, some experts say. advertisement

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But the less serious personal effects may catch a lip gloss junkie’s attending more quickly: All that sun exposure could be slowly building gross, non-cancerous disfigurements on your lips. One such as consequence is actinic keratosis, a small, scaly piece of tegument that tin morph into a wart-like bump if left untreated. Sun exposure can also do little brownish musca volitans that expression like lentigoes on
the lips. The musca volitans are noncancerous but could do people to whisper, "Hey, you've got nutrient on your lips."

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