Cracked Lips?

Ever lost your lip moisturiser when you really needed it, and couldn't find anything to heal the horrible, and let me say painful, cracked lips?

Well I've found the solution! Here's my story;

So I went out with friends, 3 days ago, to the city centre. Having walked around in the cold for more than an hour and continuously licking my lips to keep them "moisturised", I woke up the next day finding myself with horrible cracked lips. I have never had lips looking that bad, and I couldn't even smile because it was painful! Now the thing was, I had lost both my Vaseline and Carmex and have forgotten to go buy a new lip soother and moisturiser.

Having no lip moisturiser and spending a day not lick my lips, hoping that would be the solution, I was fed up with them. I went online to find home made remedies - seeing if I could make something to help my lips, from ingredients I could find at home.

The only solution I could find was the "Beeswax Recipe" which in some websites contained many extra ingredients such as cocoa. Firstly, I didn't have beeswax or honey at home and secondly I wanted something that would relieve my lips as well as make them better over time.

So after reading about adding Honey and Sugar together, I invented my own lip scrub (with a different ingredient) so I could try and remove all the dead skin (this may be somewhere on the Internet, but I could not find anything with just these simple ingredients);

Olive Oil and Sugar Lip Scrub;

Tea Spoon of sugar

Tea Spoon of Olive Oil

1. Mix well 

2. Gently rub your lips in a circular motion

3. Leave for about 5 minutes 

4. Wet a tissue/tea towel

5. Remove the Scrub by patting the towel/tissue on your lips

This actually worked at first. After applying it, I left it on and I was able to smile without my lips hurting. However, when I scrubbed even though it was gentle it still hurt at a few points. Also, when I went to remove it (to see if it had cured my lips) it didn't seem to have done anything with curing the cracked lips, only to have removed some of the dead skin, and I found it painful to smile again. Also, the sugar was so nice that after applying the second time I ended up licking it off...

I would advise anyone to use this scrub, though, as a way to bring life to the lips. I did some research on how frequent to scrub your lips - some have said to use a lip scrub once a month and others 1-2 times a week. I would recommend that you use it whenever your lips start to become flaky/cracked BUT I would also advice you not to use it excessively as it can ruin your lips - and even make them even more cracked and flaky!!!

Carrying on with my story... So after figuring out that a Lip scrub was not the answer and my lips were still sore (and I had work the next day!) I was really hoping for a quick solution to my problem and found nothing that would help. So this is when I figured in using Butter. Yes, that's right Butter that you use on your toast. I never heard of butter being beneficial to your lips, but I thought that it was quiet greasy so it may moisturise my lips - Anyway, it wasn't like it was going to make them worse than they were.

Butter Moisturiser

Tea Spoon of Butter

1. Take a spoon and scoop up a bit of butter

3. Pat your lips with the butter

4. Then rub as if your adding a normal moisturiser

5. Finally pat a bit more butter onto your lips.
6. Leave for 10 minutes

7. Remove with a wet tissue (patting your lips) and repeat until they are cured.

THIS WAS THE ANSWER. After the first use I noticed a difference straight away! The cracking was nearly all gone after three repeats, and let me tell you my lips looked like a jigsaw puzzle before, I was able to smile and soon after the third I was able to feel my lips return to how they used to be. Although they weren't absolutely healed I was very surprised with the results - I found it a better relief than when I used Vaseline or Carmex!

Having found that it worked I repeated it once more, leaving it on overnight, and woke up with amazing lips! I was able to laugh and they wouldn't hurt a bit!! I was so happy considering I had work to go to, and so I decided to share this with you guys! I was especially pleased with how fast it worked!!

This was exactly was I was looking for! I should have thought of this from day one really...

A quick and simple way to cure cracked lips using day to day ingredients!!

Hope this helps in the future and tell me if it has!

No more panicking when you can't find your Lip moisturiser!