How Mouth Taping Cured My Lifelong Chapped Lips

Many people wake up with chapped lips because they breathe through their mouth at night. I fixed my lifelong dry lips by switching to nasal breathing with mouth tape.

Most of my life, I thought dry, cracked lips were just normal for me. I always had chapstick on hand. One in the car, one in my pocket at all times, one in the office drawer, one by the bed. If I did not have one close, I felt uncomfortable. It was a bit like battery anxiety before battery anxiety was a thing.

I never thought about why my lips were so dry. I just kept buying more chapstick and assumed that chapped lips were something I would always deal with.

When I started taping my mouth at night to stop snoring, I was not thinking about my lips at all. I was just trying to fix my snoring. I kept taping each night with mouth tape and did not pay attention to anything else.

The aha moment came later. A buyer at a major pharmacy chain told me she loved the product for vanity reasons. She said her lipstick looked better because her lips were not chapped anymore. Hearing that made me pause. I realised I had not used chapstick in a long time, and I had not even noticed.

That is when it clicked for me. My chapped lips were caused by mouth breathing. Every night, eight hours of air hitting my lips had been drying them out. Once I kept my mouth closed and switched to nasal breathing with Betta Sleep products, the problem disappeared.

No more dry lips. No peeling. No cracking. No chapstick stashed around the house like emergency supplies.

It is still one of the most unexpected benefits I have had from mouth taping. I fixed a problem I thought would be permanent, without even realising it was happening.

If you deal with dry lips or wake with a dry mouth, try sleeping with Betta Sleep Mouth Tape. It might solve a problem you never realised had a simple cause.