Chapped Lips Home Remedy

You are throwing a party at your place. You get everything ready - your dance floor, the music, your bar and your buffet! You slip into your favorite black dress and then you sit down to put on some makeup before your friends arrive. Once you are done and about to leave, something weird catches your eye! When you look back into the mirror, you find the bright red lipstick has sunk into the hard cracked lines of your lips. The lips look chapped and seem as if they were bruised. Over and above, the cracked lips look more prominent with the red shade of lipstick! You suddenly feel low as the feel good factor is lost because of chapped lips!

At this stage, no lip balm or lip gloss or lipstick is going to camouflage your chapped lips. I know you are waiting for an answer to this question - how to cure chapped lips? Relax! We have some chapped lips home remedies for you. Keep reading on how you can have beautiful lips with some simple but effective home remedies for your severely chapped lips.

Lips are the tactile organs of our body which are always exposed to changing seasons. So they mostly become dry and cracked when there is not enough moisture in the body. Dry chapped lips can be a cause of exposure to extreme temperatures like dry weather, over exposure to sun and extremely cold weather. Even habitual licking of lips is believed to be one of the chapped lips causes. Apart from the above, dehydration and vitamin B2 deficiencies are palpable reasons behind chapped lips. Chapped lips are definitely dry and painful. In some cases, the lips may split and bleed causing more pain and discomfort. There are many lip balms and chapsticks available in stores. However, they also contain chemicals which may affect the lips if the cracks are open.

Home Remedies for Chapped Lips
Given below are a few easy but effective chapped lip remedies.

Using Honey and Vaseline
Honey has excellent healing properties and is one of the nature gifted medicines. It is often used to subdue swellings and soothe pain. Vaseline is an anti bacterial skin protecting agent. Combining these two makes a simple home remedy for chapped lips.

• Take some honey and apply it on your lips. Keep the honey on the lips for a few seconds.
• After the honey has dried, apply Vaseline over the honey coated lips. Now leave the lips untouched for 10 - 15 minutes.
• Take a cotton swab or a Q-tip dip and dip it in hot water and remove the honey-Vaseline combination from your lips. Do it gently and in two strokes.
• Repeat the above procedure for about 2 - 5 days. This will heal your lips from cracks and dryness.

Using Coconut Oil and Beeswax
Coconut oil is a very good skin demulcent that helps in combating dehydration. Its combination with beeswax is one of the excellent home remedies for chapped lips. Beeswax lip balm is also a commonly used natural lip balm as beeswax has the property of sealing the hydration.

• Take 2 teaspoons of beeswax and melt it in microwave.
• Add 2 tablespoons of coconut oil to the molten beeswax. Let the mixture cool.
• Now you may add some fruity essences to this mixture and store it in empty lip balm tube.
• Apply this twice everyday to have smooth and healthy lips all the time.

One can also use shea butter instead of coconut oil and make a lip balm out of these ingredients. Shea butter is also a rich emollient that easily penetrates lips and moisturizes it well.

Using Aloe Vera
Aloe vera is one of the succulent plants that is widely used for medicinal, cosmetic and therapeutic purposes. Using aloe vera gel with beeswax and fruit oils is a good remedy for chapped lips.

• Take a large aloe vera leaf and cut off the spiked edges. Peel off the skin and extract the inner pulpy gel and put in a blender.
• Add Vitamin C (500 mg) and Vitamin E (400 IU) to the aloe vera content and blend it well. Your aloe vera concentrate is ready.
• Now take some pellets of beeswax and safflower oil. Mix them and boil the contents in a double boiler. While boiling, add some grape seed oil and sweet almond oil. Please remember to boil the contents on slow heat.
• Turn off the heat and stir the contents consistently. After some time, add the thick aloe vera concentrated gel that was earlier prepared. Stir the contents well until the ingredients are uniformly mixed.
• Store the content in an empty lip balm tube or small storage container.

Apart from the above, one can also rub fresh cucumber on chapped lips for instant relief. In addition, a diet rich in vitamins is essential for a healthy skin. So, make it a point to include fresh vegetables in your diet such as carrots, tomatoes and all leafy vegetables that are rich in vitamins. Legumes and nutritional yeast also help to promote a healthy skin. Drinking vitamin rich juices like carrot and spinach juice regularly will help to keep the body well-hydrated. Last but not the least, drink lot of water, at least 3 pints daily! Lip care is very important as any cracking and bleeding in lips create discomfort while eating and talking.

I hope you have learned some good tips on chapped lips home remedy in this article. So, to exfoliate lips at home, you don't have to scour cosmetic stores for expensive lip balms as now you can make one yourself! Try the above remedies and feel the difference!