Lips add beauty to our face but if you will have cracked lips then your looks get affected of them. If you thought winters are the only time when this problem occurs then you are mistaken. Most of the people struggle with lip problems. Dry lips are of one of them may be caused because of sun damage, excessive liking of lips, biting of lips, environmental changes, less drinking of water, genetics or any other. Everybody is picture ready nowadays but opps! your picture can be ruin by your painful smile. Sometimes, our lips not only turned dry but they also get cracked and start bleeding.
We always stick our focus to the face and knowingly or unknowingly forget our lips. Just buying a lipstick for good looking is not enough. The care we provide to our face should be given to lips. We all must have read some articles over this topic but because of busy schedule we don’t adapt them in our daily life. But what will you do? if we suggest you some two minutes hack to making your lips healed, soft and pink.
We are suggesting you some easy home remedies because we know medical treatment of dry lips can be costly or time taken for you. Let’s see some easy to pick tips for healing lips or removing dry skin from them.
How to Remove Dry Skin from Lips
1. Honey+ Sugar+ coconut oil
Honey is known for its antioxidant and exfoliating effects which helps the skin to look refreshing and smooth again. It includes organic acids and phenolic compounds. Honey is a natural humectants which means it help to attract the moisture. It just not only healed your lips but also lighten their colour. Other ingredients are equally good and important as honey.
Let’s have a look upon remedy, for it you will need:-
- 1 tsp raw honey
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp coconut oil
Pour them together into the little bowl and make thick mixture of it. We suggest you to use organic honey here. Use the mixture to scrub your lips for five minutes. Then, Rinse it off smoothly. Apply the mixture for 3 times a week.
2. Turmeric + Milk
For the second remedy we will need turmeric and milk. You will easily found them at your home. Turmeric has inflammatory compounds which help the skin to repair damages. It helps to remove dead cells and clean the skin. Milk will provide moisture to your lips.
Take a pinch of turmeric and 1 tsp of milk. Now frit them well. Apply the mixture on your lips for at least 10 minutes then rinse it off with lukewarm water.
3. Rose petals + Honey
May be you heard many times that for making your lips again pink, you have to use some natural pink coloured ingredient. Rose petals are most famous ingredient for lips. For this remedy you will need some rose petals around 20-25 and honey.
Grind all petals and add 1 tsp of it to 1 tsp of honey. After making paste ready, apply it for minimum 15 minutes then rinse it off.
4. Ghee + Sugar + Lemon juice + Honey
Will you really believe these easily available common ingredients can be magical, if not then read and do these remedies at home. You will need 1 tsp of ghee, 1 tsp of sugar, ½ tsp lemon juice and 1 tsp of honey. Ghee is rich in vitamin E while sugar is natural exfoliator. Whereas Lemon is used to remove dry skin or cure damages from sun and honey is for giving moisture to your lips. Make paste of all ingredients of let it apply for 10 minutes then rinse it off.
5. Sugar + Lemon
The most easy to pick remedy. As you read, you will need sugar and lemon. Take have half bowl sugar and half chopped lemon. Squeeze the lemon into the sugar and frit them properly. When in turned into the thick mixture, apply it for at least 7 minutes. We suggest you to use it twice in a week.
6. Scrub your lips
Yes, you read it right, scrub your lips. To scrub your lips you gonna need one old not useable brush, petroleum jelly, one slice of lemon and beatroot. Don’t go for new brush otherwise instead of solving the old problem you will create new one for your lips. Means to say that new brush have sharp bristles, they will penetrate into your lips. Let’s see, how will you do this? Take any old brush and pour it into the Vaseline jelly. Scrub with that brush in circular direction but be cautious don’t do harshly otherwise it may harm your lips. After scrubing wipe out extra petroleum jelly with any soft cloth or towel. Then take a slice of both beatroot and lemon. Rub the slice of lemon onto beatroom’s slice. After rubbing it properly, place that slice of beatroot between your lips and try to soak the juice of it. Then left as it is for 10-15 minutes. This remedy will not just only help you to get healed lips but also to attain their pink colour again.
7. Prevention is better than cure
I am sure you better know this idiom. Prevention is better than cure. What I mean here from this that why do have to wait for dry lips? Take care of them properly as you do for your face. Take some necessary step to prevent them from letting them dry.
What are these step, read below:-
- Apply any lip balm or lip moisturizer. It is not only for when you have to go out but for whole day. Whenever, you feel your lips are getting dry, don’t hesitate to apply it. Rose water or glycerine are good option of making lips hydrate.
- Use scrub for them too to for cleaning them. We all use scrub to clean our face but we don’t scrub our lips. We already mentioned above the remedy for natural scrub, if you have any problem to use readymade scrub then you can made it by yourself.
- Quit smoking. One of the most essential step not only for your lips but also for your health. Be conscious about your health, because healthy people look more beautiful.
- Stay hydrate. Applying lip balm or any kind of moisturizer is an external step to keep your lips hydrate but you have to take some steps for keeping them hydrate from inside too. Drinking water is the key for it. Drink at least 8-10 glass of water on daily basis.