The Sunday News
Rutendo Chidawanyika
A LIP is an important part of your face that should be cared for to bring out the natural beauty of your face. If your lips tend to stay scaly and unattractive along with dead skin layer, the whole facial presentation will be disturbed.
Instead of using harmful cosmetics and lip balms that are available in the market, you can get some effective homemade techniques to keep your lips looking beautiful. You can get juicy and well moisturised lips that will even make you feel healthy.
If your lips have lost their natural colour, the homemade tips will bring back the naturally beautiful lips with pinkish tinge. Getting rid of rough and chapped doesn’t always mean expensive cosmetics. The following home remedies will do.
Honey and coconut oil
Coconut oil is used to apply over the hair in order to keep the hair moisturised and given a strengthening to the hair roots. Coconut oil is used for a lot of home remedies, as well as good skin.
Similarly, today in every house people wish to keep good health and use healthy ingredients. Thus, sugar is replaced with honey.
Naturally, honey can also be found easily at home. You can now take a mixture with half teaspoon each of honey and coconut and mix them well. Now apply it over your lips and massage it slowly with finger tips. Keep it for 10 minutes and then wash it away.
Olive oil
Olive oil is another important ingredient that can be used to make your lips look beautiful and healthy. You can get ready made olive oil from the market. Apply the oil over your lips and let it stay like that absolutely.
No need to remove it. Your skin will automatically absorb it and make your lips get all types of moisturising elements. Getting pinkish and well moisturised skin will be quite easy with the wonderful effect of olive oil. Since olive oil is edible, it won’t be a problem even if you taste it.
Almond and coconut
Almond is a nut available in the nature that has variety of health benefits. A combination of almond with coconut oil can do wonders.
For this you need to take 2 pieces of almond nuts and grind or crush it. Make a paste out of it and add two drops of coconut oil with it. Apply it over your lips and massage it.
The mixture of almond and coconut oil can also be a wonderful scrubber if your do not grind almond totally and keep some grain like substance over it. After scrubbing keep the solution for around 10 minutes and then wash away with cold water and see the difference.
Butter
You must have butters with low cholesterol at home that you use on your bread or for baking. Butter is also used instead of oil in various recipes to get good smell and avoid cholesterol.
Now this butter can also be helpful in making lips look beautiful. Take a pinch of butter with your finger tip and apply the same over your lips.
This needs to be done just before going to bed so that it works repairing your lips throughout the night and give you refreshing and smooth lips the next day morning.
Use quality lipsticks
The most important part is to buy the products good for lips. All the cosmetics in the shop are not well tolerated for sensitive skin. You must pick up the lip products that consist of natural or safe ingredients.
– Use the natural homemade lip scrubs to exfoliate lips. Use the sea salt and honey scrub to exfoliate the lips.
– Use the chapstick before applying the lip stick. Chapstick layer is used as the base for the lip sticks it won’t dry the lipstick.
Chapsticks such as Labello, Carmex or Lip ice
– Use the vitamin E rich lip balms to the lips they will protect lips.
– Avoid applying the lipstick over on the lips.
– Honey is the best moisturiser for the lips. Apply the honey on the lips after 10 minutes wash with water.
– Make massage to your lips with almond oil or olive oil.
– Apply the butter or milk creams at the night time before going to bed. It will make your lips smooth.
– Do not pull the dry flake from the lips. Use the natural lip scrubs to remove the dead cells from the lips.
– Drink lot of water and be hydrated.
– Use the lip balms with high SPF and which gives the protection from the UV rays.
Healthy lips, healthy lips
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