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Re: Chapped lips

Author: Brenda
Date: 2004-08-30 12:37

Based on training in a cosmetics company - in order to have smooth and beautiful skin anywhere on your body including lips, one needs to exfoliate before moisturizing.

Put into layman's terms: Clean your lips well at the same time as you wash your face or brush your teeth, gently "scrubbing" with a cloth to remove dead skin. When the skin is cleansed then apply water (to moisurize), then use a lotion or lip balm to trap the moisture in. If you apply lip balm to lips that have been moistened with your tongue, you're trapping in many things besides water and aren't doing yourself much of a favour. Eating and drinking leave residues that can dry out your lips, so they need to at least be rinsed off at the washroom sink before applying moisturizer. (If food allergies are involved that's another story.)

All that the expensive moisturizers do is to add moisture (H2O) and then add oils of some kind or other to trap the moisture in. You can do this very inexpensively by using whatever oils you choose, but by following the basic procedure outlined above.

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