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How to get a soft and pink lips | 21st August, 2017

It is said that the prettiest thing you can wear is your smile. Your smile is not all about your shiny white teeth, it is about your lips as well! We all wish to have soft, pink and luscious lips but somehow it seems like a distant dream. Your lips are more sensitive than you think. Chapped, dry, pigmented lips speak volumes about your health.

 
Your lips deserve some extra care and attention in order to keep them hydrated and restore their natural softness and smoothness. We have a list of a few simple home remedies for naturally pink and soft lips.
 
The main causes for chapped and discolored lips are attributed to the following reasons
 
  • An unhealthy lifestyle that includes smoking, a bad diet and stress
  • Dehydration – not drinking enough water
  • Excessive intake of caffeine
  • Using expired lip products
  • Using cheap quality products
  • Not removing your makeup at night
  • Anemia
  • Exposing yourself to the sun and pollution
 
Moisturize Your Lips
 
The fact that the skin of your lips has a small quantity of sebum (an oil), you have to keep your lips moisturized provided you desire them to remain healthy and hence pink. Moreover, it significantly important to note that if you are going outside, attempt applying a bit of petroleum jelly or else lip balm as well if you are inside, use some cocoa butter. On the other hand, if you desire your lips to be soft as well as pink, you have to keep them moisturized.
 
Use Pomegranate Seeds and Milk
 
You should bear in mind that another simple procedure towards lightening shady, tedious lips as well as make a good-looking pink color is by means of having used pomegranate seeds.  You can mash up the seeds and amalgamate it with a little quantity of milk cream. If you use this home remedy to your lips on a regular basis, you will definitely start to watch them becoming redder as well as fuller. Don’t forget the great thing about this remedy is that there are of course no side effects.
 
Apply Cucumber Juice
 
Another important way to lessen any darkness on your lips is to apply a bit of cucumber juice. Just slice a cucumber, rubbing it against your lips to permit the juices to soak on. Note that if you do this for five minutes on a regular basis, you can lighten dark lips to a beautiful pink color.
 
 Massage with Lemon Juice
 
Another remedy just needs lemon as well as some sugar. In order to do that cut a thin slice from the lemon, sprinkling a bit of sugar on top and rub your lips with this combination on a regular basis. This works miraculously since the lemon function for naturally bleaching your lips, coming again to their light as well as pink color whilst sugar works to exfoliate lifeless skin cells.
 
Mix Honey, Almond Oil, and Sugar
 
Now another perfect remedy is to amalgamate sugar, honey, as well as some amount of olive or almond oil. Use this to your lips, massaging it in for ten minutes.
 
Scrub with Toothbrush
 
Furthermore, if you desire smooth lips, you can use your toothbrush each night after brushing your teeth. You just scrub the lips with it (make sure it is soft bristled) as well as this can eliminate the chapped, dry skin that forms around your lips, making them look fresher.
 
Remove Makeup before Sleeping
 
Finally, one of the most common reasons people have tedious lips is because of the fact that they do not take off their makeup. That is the reason why you should not forget to remove it before going to bed. Simply put a bit of olive oil or almond oil on a cotton ball as well as rub your lips with it gently. Thus, we have learned how to get pink lips.
 
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Mawuena Workartey/ Ghanahospitals.org

     
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