Lip products, including Lush lip scrubs, Maybelline Baby lips lip balm, Mario Badescu lip balm and Clinique lip balms laying flat styled with Chanel lip sticks sitting upon a Chanel book
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Let’s Talk About Lip Care

September 25, 2018 /

Today, I am talking all about lip care. I have never really suffered from dry lips in the past until now. I have always kept a lip balm in my makeup bag, but more often than not it expired before I had finished it.

This past winter I have really experienced what it feels like to have dry, chapped lips. So I want to share with you what I have been using to help care for my lips.

 

Let’s Talk Lip Scrubs

 

Lip scrubs are a great first place to start for really bad chapped lips. I didn’t even know lip scrubs existed until my daughter softoctobernight bought one from Lush and recommended I try it out.

There are many lip scrubs available on the market, and you can even DIY lip scrubs using honey and sugar.

Before buying a lip scrub, my daughter tried a DIY scrub – however, it wasn’t really a great success, as it didn’t keep fresh for very long, so she decided to buy one instead. After a quick google search, she opted for the Lush lip scrub, it has an affordable price point and great reviews swaying her decision.

 

Photo of two lip scrubs, one opened showing the actual pink lip scrub texture and the other one closed sitting on a marble tray with pink and white flowers in the background

 

What Lip Scrubs Do?

 

Just like scrubs for our face and body, lip scrubs gently exfoliate dead skin from our lips, making them feel soft again.

Our lips, like our skin, have a lipid layer, and when our lips get dry and chapped, that layer becomes unbalanced. The lipid layer locks moisture into our skin, so it is important to keep the layer balanced.

 

wo Maybelline Baby lip balms and a lush lip scrub sitting on a decorative white round tray on a pink and blue background

 

Lush Lip Scrub

 

I am so happy with the results from this lip scrub – but one bit of advice, don’t rub too hard as your lips will sting for hours afterwards (yes I did this!), just lightly rub.

I use my scrub at the moment a few times per week. Lush lip scrubs come in several flavours – I chose Bubblegum, there is also Chocolate, Honey and Mint Julips.

Lush pride themselves on having handmade and 100% vegetarian, cruelty-free, and naked packaging (no unnecessary packaging) products. The ingredients in this scrub are castor sugar and organic jojoba oil. As an added bonus, you can just lick this scrub off your lips – or just wipe it off with a tissue. If you choose another brand of lip scrub make sure to check the directions, as some lip scrubs may contain chemicals that you do not want to ingest.

 

 

Lip Balm

 

After using a lip scrub, it is important to finish off with a lip balm. I use Babylips by Maybelline. As with lip scrubs, there are so many lip balms on the market to choose from, so it will be a personal preference for which one you like.

My daughter loves Mario Badescu Lip Wax, however, I find this balm slightly too heavy for me. She also likes Clinique’s Pep Start Pout Perfecting Balm, but I am not a fan of the smell of them. So for me, Maybelline Babylips is perfect!

How do you take care of your lips? Let me know below.

 

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