Lip Service

As I was traveling in Florida last week, I stumbled on the hotel that most of the airlines put their crews up for layovers.  I met a couple of flight attendants who were more than willing to pose for this provocative picture for a free tube of vanilla cherry lip balm.  It seems that spending most of your time in an the atmosphere of an enclosed airplane really dries out the lips and the skin!

A noted skin care expert recently ran the following test:

Supplies used for the test:
 - A 100% cotton t-shirt.
- Water.
- A small cap from a travel bottle of mouthwash that I used as a measuring cup.
I did this test in two different environments: the first in my hotel room in Boston on a sunny 50 degree December day. The second test was performed at 32,000 feet in an airplane…
How I performed the test: I filled the small mouthwash cap half way with water and poured it onto the 100% cotton t-shirt and time stamped it with a sticky note.
I watched and watched until the water spot had virtually disappeared and time stamped it again. I repeated the same exact steps up in the air.
Test results: The t-shirt took 1 hour and 27 minutes to dry whereas at 32,000 feet up in an airplane, it took only 24 minutes.


And skin care guide Canada says:
"Airplane" Skin
Does your skin and hair feel tight or dry when you get off of an airplane? The humidity on a plane can reach as low as 1% humidity on long flights and it can take just a 3 hour flight to sap all the moisture from your skin and hair. So stay hydrated during and after your flight, limit your intake of coffee and alcohol - they just make things worse, carry your moisturizer in your hand luggage to slather on mid flight and before you deplane, splash your face with water and follow with your moisturizer.


Food for thought.
The Pied Piper