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Health
Honey on its own acts as a soothing and hydrating agent for chapped lips. For a long-lasting respite from dryness, you can also combine other natural hydrating ingredients with honey to make a scrub or chemical-free lip balm which provides relief from sore, dry lips.
1. Honey
Honey is a natural humectant which hy- drates and rejuvenates dry and chapped lips. It also works as an anti-irritant to reduce the soreness and painful symptoms associated with dry lips.
• Apply a thin layer of honey on your chapped lips with your fingers.
• Leave the application overnight or as long as possible.
• Wash off with cool water in the morn- ing.
• Repeat several times a day.
3. Honey and Sugar
Sugar acts as a good exfoliator for chapped lips. It helps to remove the dry and dead cells from cracked lips, resulting in softer and smoother texture of lips.
• Mix 2 teaspoons of sugar and 1 teaspoon of honey in a bowl.
• Apply it to your cracked lips and leave it on for 5 – 8 minutes.
• Gently rub lips with your fingers to loosen up the dry skin cells.
• Wash off application with lukewarm water. • Repeat the process thrice a week.
For extra benefits: Add few drops of olive oil into the mixture. Olive oil is packed with anti- aging oxidants and hydrating squalene, which helps it to nourish dry and cracked lips.
Note: You can use either white or brown sugar in this remedy. Brown sugar crystals work better with honey if your lips are extra-sensitive.
5. Honey and Cucumber
2. Honey and Glycerin
tion with regular use.
Glycerin has nat- ural moisturizing properties that keep chapped lips hy- drated from within. It also heals the symptoms of dry lips like bleeding, flaking and irrita-
• Mix 1 tablespoon each of honey and glyc- erin in a bowl.
• Apply the paste on dry lips.
• Leave it on overnight.
• Wash off application in the morning.
• Re-apply every alternate day for best results.
4. Honey and Lemon Juice
Lemon juice works as a natural bleaching agent for discolored chapped lips. It is also a good exfo- liator to get rid of dry skin cells from the surface of dry lips.
• Mix 1 teaspoon of honey and 1⁄2 teaspoon lemon juice in a bowl.
• Massage gently on chapped lips for 1-2 minutes.
• Wash off with lukewarm water.
• Repeat the method twice a week.
For more effectiveness: You can add 1/2 tea- spoon of castor oil into the mixture. Castor oil is rich in triglycerides and fatty acids like oleic and linoleic acids, that help restore the natural moisture balance in case of dry lips or skin.
The main constituent of cucumber is water which makes it an excellent hydrat- ing agent for dry lips. It helps to relieve the painful symp- toms of soreness and inflam-
mation associated with chapped lips.
• Keep a cucumber in the refrigerator for a few hours to cool it.
• Once it cools, cut out 3-4 mm thick slices from it.
• Dab them on your chapped lips for 1-2 minutes. • Leave on for about 2-3
minutes.
• Remove the cucumber
slices.
• Spread a thin layer of
honey on the dry lips.
• Leave on for about 10
minutes.
• Wash off with cool
water.
• Re-apply every alternate
day.
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