How to Rescue Dry & Chapped Lips
Having dry and chapped lips can be very annoying. What we want is the kissable plumped lips, not that flaky and sand paper like lips.
Dry lips can be caused by many factors including extreme temparatures (both hot and cold), tiredness, Vitamin B deficiency, using old lip sticks or lip gloss(usually more than 3 years old). Licking lips can also dry the lips even more, so try to avoid doing it.
Here are the tips to rescue the lips.
1. If you are currently using a lip balm that contains petroleum, swap it with a natural base lip balm (e.g., beewax and sheer butter).
A Petroleum base lip balm tends to make lips drier because it cannot be absorbed by the lips or the skin and sometimes cause skin irritations. In contrary, a natural lip balm is absorbed by the skin and increases the moisture retentions and the natural elasticity. I love Burt’s Bees Beewax Lip Balm. It’s not expensive (around £3.50) is also edible.
2. Apply (quite a lot of) lip barm and exfoliate the lips gently with cotton butts.
Remove the flaky skin. Make sure to do it gently.
3. Re-apply the lip balm.
The dry and chapped lips will transform to soft and fuller lips.
