Once chapped lips began to harass, cause discomfort, cause pain, becomes effective immediately, do not let things drift. Vaseline - that salvation is number one. Grease Vaseline lip and do a little massage as a means to vkolachivaya the skin. Hold Vaseline on your lips for 2-3 minutes, then remove it with a soft cloth soaked in warm water or a cotton pad with particles of exfoliated skin. After this procedure, apply a lip balm that is easy to make at home.
To prepare the home balm you will need:
- Honey - 1 tbsp. spoon;
- Almond oil - 0, 5, Art. spoons;
- Vitamin A and E in capsules - 2 capsules (or 4 capsules Aevitum);
- Essential orange oil - 1-2 drops.
All components mix thoroughly and apply. You can cook homemade balm for the future, then a mixture of these ingredients have to add beeswax as a natural thickening agent (hardener). Moreover, the wax will have on the lip skin beneficial effects because it possesses bactericidal and anti-inflammatory properties.
Good for the chapped lips a variety of masks, which are also easy to do right at home and even at work. The simplest mask - vegetable oil applied to clean, dry lips. The most effective are jojoba oil, palm, olive and almond. Simply put any of these oils on the lips, dabbing the excess with a cotton pad or soft cloth.
With appreciation chapped lips and respond to honey mask. Grease the skin of the lips and honey Tapping movements make a gentle massage. It looks like a "vaseline" procedure with the difference that the honey also contribute to rapid healing of fractures. Better yet, get candied honey and gently heating it in his fingers, put on his lips massaged. Thus, scales easily peel off the skin otsohshey and lips get a good massage, as a result of increase blood flow, and hence faster the metabolism and cell regeneration.
The mask of curd and cream, applied to the damaged lips, making them soft and gentle. A mask of avocado pulp containing valuable fatty acids, give the lips extra nutrition and hydration. Well moisturize the skin and lips mask from cucumber. Thin slices of cucumber put on the lips, or rub the cucumber on a fine grater and apply the resulting slurry on the lips and hold for 5-7 minutes. After the masks should wet his lips with a damp cloth and lubricate the balm or petroleum jelly.
When cure chapped lips, do not forget about prevention. Coming out of the house, as well as after meals and washing, put on lip balm or a special cream. Summer Wear sun block containing UV protection (not less than 20 units). If you use lipstick, opt for the one which is composed of moisturizing ingredients. In the heating season moisturize the air in the house.
Hurry to the doctor if there was inflammation of the lips that do not heal more than a week, if the skin of the lips covered with weeping crust.
Keep in mind that sometimes inflammation on the lips and skin fissures suggests that the body lacks vitamin B, it can be filled by the product in which it is present. Include in your diet more nuts, green leafy vegetables, corn bread and whole grain cereals.