Lip scrub at home

If the lips are chapped, with damaged and unkempt skin, then they definitely will not make you more attractive. Lip skin also requires care, but women, unfortunately, often forget about it. But in vain, because the skin on the lips is so delicate and thin that it certainly needs to be protected. And you can do this with the help of a special lip scrub, which is sold in the cosmetic departments of stores, but can also be prepared independently.

This tool is able to very carefully cleanse such delicate skin, and give the lips bright, sensual, smooth and very beautiful features. A homemade scrub is always a 100% product made from natural and healthy ingredients, without any chemicals that can only age the lips.

Ancient Roman beauties knew how amazing the effect of a lip scrub can be. They crushed fruit seeds and used this tool as peeling particles and got bright, smooth and beautiful lips.

This is known to modern beauties, and they also use various exfoliating products to make their lips irresistible. Perhaps, in our time, this procedure is even more relevant than in antiquity, because today the environment leaves much to be desired, there is no escape from daily hassle and other negativity that can only accelerate the aging process.

From English, "scrub" is translated as "scrape", which, in fact, is the main function of this product. The scrub removes dead dermis, impurities, various roughness and other troubles from the surface of the skin, and as a result, the skin is renewed, becoming softer and more attractive.

There are two main components in the scrub - a skin-cleansing composition and a softening base. In the scrubs that are sold in the store, there may be those with an increased abrasive content. If you use such a product, you can not improve the skin of the lips, but rather harm it.

In this sense, the best option would be to prepare a lip scrub at home. For this, natural products that are usually found in any home can be used. Homemade scrub always turns out to be very effective, healthy and even edible! And at the same time - quite inexpensive.

It would seem - what is so complicated here? Apply, massage and rinse. But it turns out that there are secrets to achieve the best result.

1. First of all, the skin for peeling should be prepared, that is, the lips should be steamed. Take a cotton swab and soak it in hot water, then apply it to your lips. Thus, the desired effect will be achieved. Prepared skin will be easy to clean, and it will absorb useful components from the scrub better.
2. We apply the scrub on the lips and on the area around, using the pads of the fingers, and make them lightly massage the lips. In this case, you do not need to rub the peeling cream, just as you do not need to pull them on - such actions can lead to the fact that the contour of the lips becomes blurred. Everything is done as easily, gently and carefully as possible, a toothbrush will do, but only if the bristles are soft.
3. Be patient.When the massage is over, the product should remain on the lips for about five more minutes so that all the beneficial components of the scrub can be absorbed into the skin.
4. Rinse off the mixture using warm water. Then dry the lips with a soft cloth and apply a nourishing cream.
5. An even better result can be achieved if, in conclusion, a mask is applied to the lips, also prepared independently. The mask is left for twenty minutes, and then the cream is applied. The nutritional component in conclusion is an important component of the entire procedure, otherwise the skin of the lips will become dry and cracked.
6. It is important to remember one more important rule: if there is a problem on the lips such as jamming, colds or cracking, then scrub procedures are contraindicated until the trouble is completely eliminated.
7. It is better to do the procedure in the evening twice a week, occasionally three, and more frequent procedures with a scrub will not be beneficial, but harmful, and in pursuit of beautiful and attractive lips, on the contrary, you can get problems with damage to the dermis. If the weather is warm, it is enough to do the procedure even once every ten days, and in cold weather you can do it more often - two or three times a week.

For such the thinnest skin that is on the lips, peeling should be prepared as delicate as possible, which would not damage it. This effect can be achieved if the scrub base is made light and soft, and the peeling particles are soluble during the procedure.

What is suitable as such a base is any oil (the best option, of course, is olive oil, but both sunflower and animal origin are allowed). And as abrasive grains suitable:

• granulated sugar;
• crushed oat flakes;
• coffee grounds or ground coffee.

At home, there is always the opportunity to prepare different scrubs, because there are many different products at hand, and with each of them you can make different peeling products, the functions of which will turn out to be different. They will depend on the qualities of a particular component that has been added. For example, a component such as cottage cheese will make the scrub nutritious, and aspirin - healing.

Any homemade recipe is prepared quickly and simply, because at home you usually have everything you need, most often you don’t even have to go to the store for them. Next time there is always the opportunity to make a scrub from other components, because there are countless recipes for their preparation, and here are just a few of them:

With balm - for any season. The simplest recipe is sugar. To make it, you need a regular lip balm and granulated sugar. The lips are massaged with this mixture for about two minutes, then we clean them with a soft cloth and apply the same balm, but without additives.

With strawberry. Starts the regeneration of skin cells. This recipe is suitable for the season when strawberries ripen - the main component of such a delicious scrub. It will take only three berries, which should be chopped with a fork. We also add lemon juice (1 teaspoon) and honey (1/2 teaspoon) there. Now the delicious mass is applied to the lips for about eight minutes (the main thing is to hold on and not lick it off during this time). Lastly, don't forget to moisturize your lips.

With kiwi. This recipe will be a godsend for a scrub in the winter season. The fruit, without removing the skin from it, knead with a fork and mix with melted butter (half a teaspoon). Winter is such a time of the year when not only our skin is not in good shape, but also our lips.A sharp change in temperature dries them out, and peeling with kiwi will not only tone the skin on the lips, but also nourish it.

Then everything is as usual - apply for seven minutes, massage, rinse, moisturize.

With rose petals. This recipe is preferred by English women. For the cream you will need:

• powdered sugar (6 tablespoons);
• dried rose petals of any color;
• jojoba oil (a couple of teaspoons);
• mint oil (three drops).

The petals are crushed with a blender, and the oil, as always, can be replaced with any other. The recipe lists jojoba as non-clogging skin. This product can also be used as a facial scrub.

With mint and honey. Has a rejuvenating effect. Ingredients:

• brown sugar (two teaspoons) or white sugar (teaspoon);
• honey (teaspoon);
• mint oil (one drop) or organic coconut oil (tablespoon).

With such a peeling, the lips become young, elastic and very seductive.

• With sugar for a cleansing effect.

• With soda for a caring effect.

• With candied honey.

• With cottage cheese.

• With rice.

• With coffee and sour cream.

• With aspirin.

This is an effective remedy for tidying up chapped lips.

• With castor oil.

• With coffee powder.

• With vaseline.

• Cinnamon.

• grape seed oil, which is sold in pharmacies (1/2 teaspoon);
• sugar (you can use raw cane, or you can use regular sugar) - also 1/2 teaspoon;
• cinnamon essential oil (three drops);
• cinnamon powder (at the tip of a knife).

To prepare the product, mix sugar with cinnamon, add warm (just dip the bottle into a container of hot water) grape seed oil and cinnamon oil (if you couldn’t get it, you can replace it with one drop of pepper tincture, which is sold in a pharmacy).

Keep such a composition on the lips for 20 seconds - no more, and if there is pepper tincture in it, then fifteen is enough. You will not recognize your lips - they will not only become much brighter, but also add volume. But with such a recipe, you should be very careful, because some ladies experience irritation from cinnamon.

Although it is thanks to such a component as cinnamon (which, in principle, can be added to any of the recipes), the lips become more voluminous and swollen, which girls like so much. But it still doesn't hurt to be careful.

• With coconut oil.

All components are equal. If you have almonds, you can grind them up and use them instead of sugar. The finished product should be transferred to a glass container and put in the refrigerator. You can use this composition for a week, only before applying to the lips, warm the scrub in the palm of your hand.

You will be amazed at the result after the first application, but you should not do this too often.

It is important to always remember that you can not lick your lips, especially if you are outside, and especially in winter, when a strong wind blows. This will be followed by an increase in dryness of the lips, irritation and ugly cracking may appear on the skin.

When preparing a peeling cream, keep in mind that you will repeat the procedure no more than three times a week, and you can store the composition in the refrigerator for only a week. So, make so much product that it is enough for you three times.

A self-made lip scrub has a lot of advantages over a store-bought one, but its main difference, of course, is the naturalness of all components. Unfortunately, store analogues cannot boast of this. On the packaging of some store-bought peeling creams it is written about their naturalness, but it is hard to believe that this may be true.

How can a cream contain only natural ingredients without any hint of chemistry, and at the same time have a shelf life of not one week, but three whole years? For these reasons, it cannot be compared with a homemade cream - a 100% natural product.

Homemade lip scrub has:

• low cost;
• most ingredients are always available;
• each time you can make a peeling cream with your own hands according to a new recipe;
• in the vast majority of cases, homemade scrubs are very tasty, and the cooking process is interesting and enjoyable;
• you can come up with your own scrub recipe, come up with interesting packaging, present your invention to your girlfriend for her birthday.

You can find out more lip scrub recipes at home from the following video.

With all the positive qualities of this product, it still has one drawback - this is its short shelf life - only one week in the cold.

Reading the opinions of consumers about such scrubs, you can stumble upon such rave reviews in which girls write about the scrub, not just as a cosmetic product, but as a masterpiece, because of which their lips took on a completely different look - they became tender, smooth, swollen and insanely attractive to the opposite sex.

If you perform procedures with this wonderful remedy regularly, you can forever forget about dryness, get rid of small age-related wrinkles around the mouth and peeling. Thanks to such a simple remedy, blood circulation improves in the lip area, and as a result, bright, delicate and smooth beautiful lips are obtained.