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How To Treat Vertical Lines Around The Lips

The vertical lines around the mouth are challenging to fix but now there are things you can do to improve them.

Most people call these lines ‘smoker’s lines’ but they aren’t necessarily from smoking.  Everybody will eventually get them as they age, smokers just get them earlier, and so do women.

I want to give you a quick overview of how I treat them in my dermatology practice.  To reduce the  appearance of vertical lines around your mouth consider one or more of the following treatments (click on any of the blue links to see more about the options).

The Best Treatments For ‘Smoker’s Lines’

Using skin care products to brighten the skin.

These will lessening the dark, wrinkled textural appearance of this area and it’s something you can do with your at-home skin care regimen. The best product options include prescription tretinion, retinol (helpful, but not as effective as prescription tretinoin), and AHA products (the best contain glycolic acid with a concentration over 10% and pH around 4). The tretinoin and AHA products may also stimulate a little collagen formation under your skin to actually build up the area to help permanently diminish the wrinkles too.

Doing a series of superficial professional skin treatments that peel, abrade and brighten the skin. Read more »

*This blog post was originally published at Dr. Bailey's Skin Care Blog*

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