Exfoliate Your Lips To Supple Smoothness (with stuff from your kitchen!)

October 11, 2012

A key trick to getting your lips to look and feel their best is to exfoliate them. Just like your skin, lips regenerate and need help shedding those dead skin cells, and gently exfoliating them can prevent them from chapping and ensure that your lip balm penetrates them to leave them soft and kissable. Now, before you go running out to buy lip exfoliators, rest assured that you can make your own with things you already have in your kitchen for a fraction of the price. With two simple ingredients, you’ll have the best exfoliator for the best lips.

  1. In a small bowl, combine one tablespoon of brown sugar and a couple of drops of lemon or lime juice until it forms a paste. The sugar and lemon/lime are both Alpha Hydroxy Acids which aid in dissolving and exfoliating dead skin cells, but unlike the AHA’s used in spas, this one is gentler and, of course, right at your finger tips.
  2. Taking the paste, gently start to scrub your lips in a circular motion. Don’t be scared if you get some in your mouth – it’s actually really tasty!
  3. Rinse the scrub off and apply some lip balm.

That’s it! This is a great thing to do in the winter months when your lips are in extra need of moisture as this keeps the chapping away.

TIP: When your lips are exfoliated, your lipstick applies much smoother and actually lasts much longer!

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