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As the season changes, our lips tends to dry and if not treated appropriately, it becomes sore. At the moment there’s no cure for dry lips, but heyy all hope is not lost,
The best treatment for dry lips is hydration.
The lip balm or lip gloss can only give you a temporal moisturized lips, there are steps which if you follow accordingly, you can get a permanent hydrated, moisturized and healthy lips.
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DOWN BELOW ARE 5 GUIDE FOR A HEALTHY AND MOISTURIZED LIP:
1. Learn to stop licking your lips always.
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Licking your lips will give you temporal moisturized lips, it makes you feel like you’re moisturizing it, but instead it dries the lips the more, it’s not an effective way of moisturizing the lips
2. Use the right lip gloss or lip balm.
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Flavoured lip balm or lip gloss encourages you to always lick your lips, which won’t be effective as mentioned above.
Lip balm that has eucalyptus, camphor, menthol and alcohol, may actually dry your lips, Ultraviolet (UV) rays can damage the lips, which leads to sore out break,
Use a lip gloss/balm that has an ultraviolet protection to keep your lips moisturized
3. Drink enough water
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The human body is made up of about 60% water, that water decreases as we go about doing our daily activities. This is because constantly we are losing water through perspiration, replenish the water content of the body by drinking six(6) to eight(8) glasses a day has a lot of health benefit, this includes attractive,smooth, beautiful and healthy looking lips, like I said before it is the best dry lips treatment that has no side effects.
4. learn to eat right
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The balanced diet is another health booster, Zinc is a very important mineral in maintaining moisture, when this is not in your diet there is a tendency that there will be constant dehydration.
If you think that you are not getting enough zinc from your diet or maybe you can’t keep up to a healthy balanced diet..
Take a multivitamin
by eating healthy, your lips will be nourished.
5. Be careful of certain chemicals
You may not be aware of all the skin-drying products that come in contact with your lips on a daily basis, example; shampoo, body cream/lotion, lipstick.
- Do not allow shampoo to run over your face when washing your hair
- Try to invest more in moisturising foundations and lipstick because some chemicals can irritate very dry lips
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