DIY: How to make Homemade Lip Exfoliating Scrub

To keep your lips at the pink of their health, both men and women need to take utmost care of their lips round the year, especially during the dry winter season. How to get rid of chapped lips? Simply use lip balm and/or lip scrub/exfoliator when you feel your lips are dry. Exfoliating your lips, in order to get rid of the dry, dead cells is necessary to retain the softness of your lips. However, it is best if they are made naturally at home, while you boycott the ones that are readily available in the market, oozing with strong chemicals, only to harm your lips more in the long run.

Homemade Lip Exfoliating Scrub

Here we have brought for you the recipes for the best homemade lip scrubs, which you can easily make with all the ingredients available almost at hand’s reach. Get healthy, pink, kissable lips with the minimum effort. Here are the best recipes:

Easy Homemade Sugar Lip Scrub Recipe

Ingredients

• Sugar – 1 tbsp
• Honey – 2 tbsp
• Any petroleum jelly (like clear vaseline) – 1 squirt

How to make

Simply mix all the above ingredients together thoroughly and your lip scrub is ready to use.

Homemade Scented Lip Scrub Recipe (with oil and honey)

Ingredients

• Jojoba oil (or olive oil) – 1 tsp
• Honey – 1 tbsp
• Sugar (fine or coarse) – 1 tbsp
• Petroleum jelly (optional) – ½ tsp
• Aromatic spices or oil

Homemade Scented Lip Scrub

How to make

Take the jojoba oil and mix it with the honey and the sugar and mix well, until it forms a viscous paste. Take a little bit of this paste on your fingertip and apply gently on both your lips. Allow it to stay for a couple of minutes and then wash it off lukewarm water. If you have any left, store it in a small, clean container.

Natural Lip Scrub Recipe (with brown sugar)

Ingredients

• Brown sugar – 1-2 tsp
• Honey – 1 tsp
• Almond oil – 1 tsp
• Essential oil (spearmint etc.) – 2-3 drops

Natural Lip Scrub with Brown Sugar

How to make

Take the honey in a bowl and heat it in your microwave for 5 seconds only and then mix it with the almond oil. Pour the sugar and mix evenly making a smooth paste. Add the essential oil. Now apply this mixture onto your lips in a circular motion, which would exfoliate your lip’s dead cells. Rinse your lips with warm water.

-Tips-

Although the essential oil is optional, but DO add it, we advise, since this has a healing property, just like almond oil has vitamin E in it.

Instant Coffee Lip Scrub Recipe

Ingredients

• Coffee (coarsely ground) – 1 tbsp
• Coconut oil – 1 tbsp

Coffee Lip Scrub

How to make

This is one of the simplest and most instant ways to make a lip scrub when you are in a hurry. Simple mix the coffee and the coconut oil well and directly apply to your lips and keep rubbing very gently by a soft-bristle toothbrush for 30-45 seconds. Leave it for 5 minutes and wash off.

-Tips-

Better you do not use this more than twice a week, since excessive exfoliation might result in loss of moisture and painful sensation on your lips.

Lemon Lip Scrub Recipe

Ingredients

• Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
• Honey – 1 tbsp
• White sugar – 1 tbsp

Lemon Lip Scrub

How to make

Take the sugar and the honey in a bowl and mix well together. Later, add the lemon juice and mix again. Now smear the mixture on your lips and rub very gentle circular motion by your finger tips. Now wash with warm water when done. Other than exfoliation, this scrub also acts as a good moisturizer for your lips.