Lips in cold season need additional mitigation, food and moistening. Without necessary protection on frost and wind they often are weather-beaten, dry and become covered by cracks – it is fraught not only ugly appearance, but also infections and inflammations. Simple knowledge how to protect lips from cold, will help you to look and forget about feeling of discomfort always attractively.
Lip care in cold time: useful tips
Many know that it is possible to protect lips from cold by means of special balms and lipsticks – they can be got in any cosmetic shop or drugstore. It is necessary to choose means which consistence fatter and dense – they will provide the maximum protection of lips against influence of low temperature.
The basis of lip balms and the looking after lipsticks can include vaseline which surely has to be combined with fatty acids, vitamins and botanical oils. To protect lips from cold, before putting decorative lipstick the moistening is recommended by balm.
At emergence of cracks on lips it is necessary to use special ointments:
- with antiseptic and wound healing action on the basis of zinc oxide ("Zinc", Diaderm, Desitin and others), levomitsitina (Sintometsin), plants ("Sea-buckthorn oil", Boro-plus);
- the skin accelerating regeneration (among the most known means with dekspantenoly – Bepanten, "D-panthenol", Pantoderm).
How to keep beauty of lips in the winter: important rules
- Never lick lips.
- Drink enough water to exclude organism dehydration.
- Moisten air in hot the heated room.
- Include in the winter menu products with B2 vitamin, such as vegetables of green color, beans, kislomolochka.
- For lip care during cold it is admissible to use the moisturizing creams and face gels with extract of aloe and vitamin E.
- If lips are inclined to peeling, replace decorative lipstick with color lip balm in the winter. Before drawing slightly rub lips with circular motions by dry toothbrush.
- If your lip balm is in wide and convenient jar, part with its couple of drops of any cosmetic oil. It will add to means of useful properties.
House masks for lips
Effective lip care in house conditions, in particular, means in the winter regular procedures with special srubs and masks from natural ingredients. Self-made cosmetics perfectly feeds and softens lips, srubs help to get rid of peeling and level skin.
Srub mask for lips with honey and sugar
Liquid honey and granulated sugar will be necessary for this srub mask. Warm tablespoon of honey that it was warmish, but not burning. Add 5 g of sugar and mix everything. At will it is possible to dilute the received mix with any cosmetic oil, for example, peach or almond. Distribute srub mask on lips, in 5 min. pound fingertips massage movements. After massage cause still small amount of means, leave for 10 minutes and remove by means of cotton pad.
Srub mask with oatmeal
You need oatmeal which can be made independently. Scroll grain in the blender or the coffee grinder. Mix 5 g of oat flour and a half tablespoon of dense fat sour cream. Properly vent substance and part with small amount of cosmetic oil. Use srub for lips with oatmeal, as well as means with honey and sugar: pound on lips, make massage, having saved skin from peeling, leave for 10 minutes for food and remove.
Nutritious mask for lips with vitamin E
Mask basis for lips – the olive oil providing deep food and moistening of skin. For strengthening of action of natural means it is recommended to part 2 capsules of pharmaceutical vitamin E in teaspoon of the main ingredient. It is recommended to put mask for the night.
If you wish to protect effectively lips from cold, surely carry out cosmetology procedures in house conditions regularly – self-made cosmetics works quickly, but fixing of result requires the long period of time. Provide to lips "board" from frosts and winds, and later short time they will change, will become soft, well-groomed and healthy.