How to Exfoliate your Lips at Home

What is Lip Exfoliation?

• Lip exfoliating is the removal of dead and flaky skin cells, on your lips thus unveiling the new skin, and leaving behind healthy gorgeous glowing lips. 

• Now, first things first!!! Drink 8 glasses of water daily to avoid dehydration. Being dehydrated will keep your lips from being moist and soft. 

• Exfoliate your lips every three days.

•  Avoid doing it too many times as this might cause your lips to swell.

Methods of Exfoliating Your Lips

   1. Rubbing your Lips with Sugar

• Dip your finger in water, and then in a sugar bowl.

• Gently massage in circular motions on your lips.

• Pat your lips together and wipe the extra sugar off.

• Finish off with a lip balm. It moisturizes your lips making them soft and supple.

2.  Mixture of Sugar and Olive oil

• Mix a little bit of sugar and a few drops of olive oil together.
• Simply massage the mixture onto your lips in a circular motion.
• Rinse off with warm water for a silky smooth and soft lips.

• Finish off with a lip balm.It moisturizes your lips making them soft and supple.

What to do After Exfoliating Your Lips at Home

• Try to use beauty products like Nivea,  Carmex, blistex,Vaseline, soft lips, or burts bees. All of these lip balms are available at most drugstores like CVS, Duane Reade, or Wallgreens at a very reasonable price as well as online at www.amazon.com.

• Make lip moisturizer your best friend. Don't only take your new best friend everywhere you go, use her.

• Always use moisturizers with SPF 15 and above when you go out to the harsh sunny and extremely cold weather. 
• Patience is a virtue so don't expect luscious and moist lips overnight.

• Also vaseline or any lip balm of your choice daily before bed may be of great help.

• Always wear moisturizer/lip balm under your lipstick. 

• You will see the effects within a week or so and you will eventually have those soft lips again.