Soft, full-looking lips may look nice, but keeping your lips hydrated and healthy is most important. If you’re like most people, though, your lips won’t look soft, pink, and plump without paying a little extra attention to the skin on your mouth. Keep reading to learn 14 home remedies for hydrated, healthy lips.
If you want healthy, full lips, the first step is to keep them moisturized. Lips tend to dry out easily, especially during the winter. When your lips are in good condition, you can help them look even more beautiful by using lip gloss or lipstick to give them an extra boost. Eating a healthy diet and staying hydrated will help your lips look pretty from the inside out.
Stay Hydrated
While external applications will help soften your lips, it is also vital to keep yourself hydrated by drinking adequate amounts of water. Gradually increase your water intake to 8-10 glasses per day, avoid drinking too much tea and coffee and quit smoking to see a huge difference.
Exfoliate with Honey and Sugar
Get rid of dead skin cells by exfoliating your lips with a honey and sugar scrub. Al you need to do is mix a tablespoon of sugar with enough honey to make a thick, sticky paste. Gently massage and exfoliate with this scrub to slough off dead skin and reveal smooth and soft lips. Always apply a moisturizing balm after exfoliating your lips.
Moisturize them well
After exfoliating, apply a gentle moisturizer so that your lips stay smooth and supple. Look for a nourishing lip balm made from natural and organic ingredients like shea butter, almond oil, aloe, tea tree oil, and natural waxes, such as beeswax. These ingredients will help to seal in moisture. When you wear lip balm, you end up licking your lips and ingesting a little, so you want to choose one with ingredients aren't harmful if ingested.
Avoid lip balms that contain alcohol and salicylic acid
Alcohol is often used as a preservative in cosmetics, but it's drying to the skin. Alcohol-free lip balm keeps your lips in good condition without making the problem worse. Salicylic acid will cause the skin on your lips to peel and flake.
Aloe Vera
Soften and heal dry and chapped lips by gently massaging them with aloe vera. Rich in a variety of vitamins including the much-needed vitamin E, aloe cools, soothes, and hydrates your lips. It is best to use fresh gel from the plant itself, but if you don’t have access to one then buy one of the many gels available in the market.
Stop smoking
Among the other health problems smoking causes, it also affects the beauty of your lips. Smoking is so harmful to lips that there's actually a term for the problem it causes: "smoker's lips." Smoking causes the lips to darken in color and form wrinkles, especially on the upper lip. If you smoke cigarettes, stopping as soon as possible can help restore your lips' beauty.
Almond Oil
Rich in vitamin E and other vitamins, and minerals, almond oil deeply moisturizes your lips, making them softer and fuller. Massaging a few drops of almond oil into your lips daily will work wonders on flaky skin, and you will enjoy smoother, softer, and suppler lips.
Choose colors that suit your complexion
Lipstick comes in every color of the rainbow, and choosing just the right shade can be a little confusing. Trendy colors are fun to experiment with, but if you want your lips to stand out in a good way, you need to know what colors complement your complexion instead of clashing with it. Have a few staple colors in your collection that you know make you look beautiful, and rotate in some trendier colors now and then to keep your look fresh.
If you have warm yellow undertones (your wrist veins appear green), go for warm colors like reddish browns, corals, peaches, orange-reds, and so on.
If you have cool pink undertones (your wrist veins appear blue), go for cool colors with blue undertones, like berry colors, pinks, and purples.
Keep in mind that a light color or creamy formula will make your lips appear larger, while a brightly colored shade will emphasize the shape of your lips.
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