6 Natural Remedies for Lip Care

Like all precious things, your facial beauty needs to be taken care of. Beautiful lips can make your face look brighter and give you a natural glow. That is why along with facial skin treatments, people, specially women, also want to have pink lips, long eye lashes etc. All these things add up  to the beauty of the face.

Causes of dark lips:

We mostly blame lip products for darkening of lips, but there are a lot of other contributing factors.
Cosmetics: Some lip products can cause lip darkening. Sometimes you maybe are allergic to the product you use or the product may already be expired. This is dangerous and such products should be discarded. Products with natural ingredients are always better.

Smoking: This needs no explanation. Lip darkness is one of the outcomes of smoking, besides mouth cancer, lung cancer and many more.

Caffeine and Hot drinks: Many of us are addicted to hot beverages like tea, coffee, etc. Coffee can stain your teeth too. The darkness may depend on the quantity you consume.

Hyper pigmentation: Sun rays are as harmful for our lips as they are for our skin, but we often forget our lips completely.

Natural Home Remedies for dark lips

1. Lemon Juice:

Lemon has natural bleaching assets. We often use it to remove dark spots from skin, we can use it for our lips also. Apply lemon juice on your lips before going to bed and wash in the morning.

You can also mix cream and lemon for whole night remedy.

Sprinkle sugar on lemon slice and use as a scrub on your lips to remove deed skin. Repeat this remedy for a few weeks.

2. Olive oil:

Olive oil is used to make lips fresh and healthy, as it is rich in nutrients.

Apply few drops of olive oil on your lips and massage before going to bed.

You can mix some sugar in it and scrub your lips once a week.

3. Rose petals:

Roses  have cooling and moisturizing nature. It will add a natural pink color to your lips.

Mix few drops of rosewater with few drops of honey or butter. Apply gently to your lips. Leave for 15 minutes and wash.

Another way is to mix some rose petal paste with milk and apply on lips for 15 minutes.

4. Pomegranate seed:

Pomegranate is perfect for dark lips treatment . Crush 1 tablespoon pomegranate seeds and mix it with milk to form a paste. Apply the paste to your lips and massage gently for a few minutes and then wash. Do this remedy regularly to feel the difference.

You can also use pomegranate juice along with carrot juice to apply on your dark lips daily.

5. Turmeric powder:

Turmeric is an all-in-one remedy.

Mix turmeric powder with raw milk to remove discoloration. Apply the mixture to your dark lips and wash out after 5 minutes. Do it daily and you will certainly feel the difference in a week.

6. Toothbrush scrubbing:

Scrub your lips with toothbrush softly, after brushing your teeth every night. It will remove dry and dead skin and keep your lips fresh.

Useful habits for daily lip care:

• Moisturize your lips. You can use lip balms, petroleum jelly or natural moisturizers like ghee, coconut oil or olive oil.
• Remove makeup completely at night.
• Avoid drinking excess of tea and coffee.
• Quit smoking.
• Be hydrated.
• Avoid direct sun rays.