Painful Dry Skin Around Your Mouth, What’s The Causes?

If you are experiencing dry skin around mouth and are seeking an answer to this discomfit and embarrassing problem, then please read on.

In this guide, the first thing I am going to do, is identify your problem from 1 out of the 6 causes, being the root of dry skin around mouth. Once knowing the root of your problem, you can easily then take the right steps to avoid the cause of the problem occurring again.

Then follow the treatment section later in this guide for answers. After reading this guide, you are going to learn today what is causing dry skin around mouth and how to fix the problem fast and easily.

Have A Dry Skin Problem Around Your Mouth ? 1 Out Of The 6 Issues Below, May Be The Cause ?

Cause 1. Climate or Weather Change

Many people experience a change in their skin, especially with weather changes from hot to cold temperatures or windy and cold weather.

If you noticed a sudden change in the weather. Or have been out in cold or windy conditions, you may see a direct affect with the skin around your mouth. This is normally the cause of your dry skin around mouth.

Cause 2. Product Changes

Sometimes when changing toothpastes, lip balms & moisturisers or medication. These changes in ingredients even when being natural may effect you, causing dry skin around mouth.

Have a look at the ingredients in your lip balms, moisturisers, toothpaste. Some people have allergies to different ingredients, including peppermint, petroleum jelly “which is in majority of lip balms”; alcohol in a lot of moisturisers also dries out the skin, this causes dry skin around mouth.

Cause 3. Lip Licking

A very common habit with a people and children is licking your lips or saliva forming over your mouth while asleep, this causes dry skin around mouth.

Saliva is majority water but also is highly acidic, both of these together drys the skin out. If this is your issue please check out the Mr Bees Manuka’s Kreme Plus barrier cream.

Cause 4. Perioral Dermatitis

Looks like a red & scaly rash around the mouth that may form a ring.

Perioral Dermatitis may look bumpy and is usually formed fairly close the the lips, it may look like acne but is not.

In some people the rash is itchy and others it is not, the colour also varies from no rash to pink or red in colour.

Cause 5. Contact Dermatitis

Usually forms on the hands but people do experience this around the mouth also. It is a red rash that is normally itchy & flaky. Usually products or medication are the cause of Contact Dermatitis.

Best to check any of the products you are using with fragrance, eg: mint, citrus, lip sticks, lip balms & skincare and check the ingredients, as something you are using would be causing dry skin around mouth.

Here’s a good article on how Manuka honey can be used with Dermatitis.

Cause 6. Seborrheic Dermatitis

Do you have oily skin? People with oily skin are more prone to sevorrheic dermatitis and is very common around the nose.

What happens is the glands around the nose combined with a overproduction of oil forms a irritation. This forms very flaky & dry skin from the yeast build up.

Treating Dry Skin Around The Mouth ?How To Treat It & Fast & Easily

The first thing to consider when treating dry skin around the mouth, is do you have a skin complaint ?

Eg : Seborrheic dermatitis or contact dermatitis, or is the issue climate or change of product ? Regardless if it is a skin complaint or if the cause is dry or irritated skin.

Analyse if you have been sick, taking any medication? also check the type of moisturiser you are using. any petroleum? or unnatural skincare or lip balm? Eg : Paw Paw?

As this may be affecting your skin. We recommend a very beneficial product to use is a barrier and moisturiser cream. Kreme Plus made by Mr Bees Manuka and is the ultimate answer for dry skin.

Many customers have had great results, using Kreme Plus with these exact problems especially using this product for dry skin. Kreme Plus is especially suited for dry skin around the mouth being made with all natural and organic ingredients.