Just like face and body, lips too require customized exfoliation treatment. Differe
nce between normal body/face scrubs
and lip scrubs is, lip scrubs are more gentle and are safe if indigested. They also have additional moisturizing properties. You should exfoliate your lips once or twice in a week, depending upon the severity of dry skin flakes produced.
Advantages:
1. Lip scrubs exfoliates dead layers of the skin leaving smooth supple fresh skin behind.
2. Due to exfoliation moisturizing products such as chap sticks or lip balms penetrate lips evenly and provide better moisturizing effect.
3. Exfoliation also increases the capacity of retaining moisture
4. Makeup products such as lipsticks n lip gloss get spread evenly on exfoliated lips and adhere to lip surface for a longer time giving smooth long lasting appearance.
Some tasty home made lip scrubs are:
1. Honey with sugar
2. Ground coffee with olive oil and sugar
3. Petroleum jelly with sugar
#winter2015 #exfoliation #healthylips 🙂
dermagirl 