Louise McSharry: Nature can be balm for the soul, but don’t forget one for your lips when you’re in the great outdoors

Our beauty writer on the importance of paying lip service when you’re getting your wilderness fix

It's important to look after your lips

Louise McSharry

I’m not exactly a natural inhabitant of the wilderness. The couch and the television hold too much pull for me to regularly throw myself into the wilds, but when I end up there, generally having been convinced to go by someone else, I’m always overcome by the power of nature.

The forest always does it for me. The silence of it. The height of the trees. The feeling of being in a space that doesn’t belong to you, but to the many creatures who inhabit it. It’s special.