Exfoliating your lips can help maintain soft, supple, and healthy-looking lips. Here are some key points from the search results on how often to exfoliate lips, product details, positive and negative aspects, and ingredients or materials:
- Exfoliate your lips once or twice a week.
- Start with once a week if you have sensitive lips to avoid irritation.
- Dont scrub too hard or use harsh ingredients to prevent irritating wounds on your lips.
- Avoid exfoliating if your lips have any open cuts, or if they’re sunburned or raw.
- Exfoliating with a lip scrub is good for softening and smoothing lips before applying lipstick, or when your lips are dry and peeling from cold wind or prolonged sun exposure.
- Lip exfoliating with a sugar scrub or other natural exfoliants helps encourage blood circulation in your lips, promoting cellular turnover and revealing fresh new skin cells and a plumper pout.
- Using a chemical lip exfoliator which includes ingredients such as fruit enzymes, organic extracts, and hyaluronic acid is much gentler on your lips.
Ingredients for DIY lip scrubs include sugar, honey, cinnamon, oils (olive, coconut, jojoba), petroleum jelly (Vaseline), coffee grounds, and shea butter. To exfoliate your lips at home, you can mix your favorite exfoliating ingredient with an emollient, such as olive oil, and apply it to your lips in small circles. After exfoliating, moisturize your lips with a lip balm or lipstick.
