Lip Care: Home Recipes

We have already told you what should bethe proper care for the lips, in the article "The rules of winter care for the lips." In this material, we will slightly supplement and expand the information that we shared with you last time, and also advise our readers a few recipes for home masks, ointments and lip balms.

Lip care should be regular and daily. During the evening care of the skin isgive a small amount of attention and lips. After cleaning the skin of the face, you are sure to apply the cream - share it with the lips. The cream should be applied to the lips with the pads of the index fingers with circular massage movements.

Also can be included in daily care of the lips lip massage. It must be done twice a day, in the morning and in the evening. Take a soft toothbrush, moisten it in cold water and lightly circular movements massage your lips. You can also do patting movements from the middle of the lips to the corners. After the massage you need to lubricate the lips with a fat cream or vegetable oil.

To the lips do not crack, they should not dry up. Licking lips only increases dryness and peeling. For lip moisturizing you can use special creams, balms, hygienic lipstick, goose fat. Glycerin for this purpose is poor.

Also, lips can dry out or peel off due to lack of vitamins. To soften and moisturize the lips, you cangrease them with honey, carrot or cucumber juice. In addition, for the care of the lips you can use home recipes for softening and moisturizing masks, ointments and balms. The Country of Soviets offers you several such recipes.

Lip Care: Home Recipes

Softening Lip Ointment

We take borate Vaseline (1 tsp.) and castor oil (0.75 tsp). Mix the ingredients. This ointment is applied to the lips after eating 2-3 times a day. Also, it can be applied before going out, and a very thin layer of ointment can be used as a base for lipstick.

Oily Ointment for Lips

Take the butter (1 tsp.), melt it over low heat, add cocoa (0.5 tsp) and mix thoroughly. When the mixture boils, pour it into any suitable dishes and let it cool. We put ointment on the lips for half an hour, then erase.

Sour Mask for Lips

To prepare this moisturizing mask we takesour cream (1 tsp), add to it a couple drops of lemon juice and the same amount of any vegetable oil. Apply a thick layer of mask on the lips and hold for 15-20 minutes, then erase.

Carrot mask for lips

This mask softens the lips, makes them moreelastic. We take carrot juice (5 drops), cucumber juice (6 drops), honey (0, 25 tsp) and sour cream (0.25 tsp). Mix all the ingredients, apply to the lips for 10-15 minutes, then erase.

Apricot Lip Balm

We heat on a water bath beeswax (1 tsp.). We add oil from apricot kernels (1 tsp) and calendula oil (1 tsp), not forgetting to stir constantly. Remove the mixture from the fire and let it cool, without stopping stirring. Add a couple drops of aromatic orange or lemon oil, we pour into the storage tank.

Lip balm with aloe

Take the gel from aloe vera (1 tsp.), coconut oil (0.5 tsp) and petroleum jelly (1 tsp). All the ingredients are mixed in a small glass bowl, put it in a microwave and heat it for two minutes. We pour into the storage tank. Before use, let the balm cool down. It softens and moisturizes the lips.