After the end of a prolonged winter with its frosts and dry air of heating systems, many suffer from dehydration of the skin of the lips, cracks, sticky skin and shechlocks. Lipstick on such lips falls unevenly, carelessly, and there can be no talk of kissing! Proper care and regular spa-procedures will help get rid of these problems and boldly kiss your beloved ones!
Exfoliation
To get rid of irregularities, peeling and dead skin of the lips, you should use a tasty and useful lip scrub once a week. It can be honey mixed with cane sugar, olive oil and sea salt or melted chocolate with coffee grounds. The scrub is applied to the chapped lips, gently massaged with your fingers for a few minutes with gentle circular movements with a slight pressure, after which it is washed off or eaten from the lips.
Masks
Problem lips need nutritional masks to saturate the skin with vitamins and minerals. As a rule, it uses the pulp of juicy, not very acidic fruit, mixed with sour cream or honey. Masks with avocado or banana are traditionally considered to be the best for the smoothness of the lips, as they contain a large amount of essential fatty acids. And to give a beautiful natural shade, try to make a mask with carrot juice or raspberry.
Oils
For tired and chapped lips, there is nothing better than the procedure of nourishing them with oils. Peach oil has a pleasant smell and softens lips, sea buckthorn gives a charge of vitality and vitamins, coconut plunges into a tropical bliss, shea nourishes deeply, and cocoa butter smoothes fine lines. After using a scrub or mask instead of a balm, apply a small amount of oil on your lips, let it soak in and lightly rub the residue with your fingertips.
Cryotherapy
If you are concerned about the lifeless pale skin of the lips, then restore it color and elasticity will help rubbing ice cubes. Freeze in advance the decoction of herbs (chamomile, lemon balm, calendula), green or red tea, natural freshly squeezed fruit or vegetable juice. And every morning wipe your lips and the area around them with fragrant cubes. This will give the skin a tone, and the sponge will make it plump and seductive.
Sun protection
The active spring sun can damage the delicate skin of the lips, so do not neglect hygienic lipsticks with SPF factor in order to preserve the youth and attractiveness of beautiful lips for a long time!
Text: Valentina Shmidova
