How to Make Your Lips Soft: 4 Basic Rules & 3 Home Remedies

Drink a Lot of Water

Drink plenty of water. It's one of the main rules of healthy living, making sure you are well-hydrated. Your lips need the water to keep them soft and pink.

If you are dehydrated, your skin, which include your lips, would dry out and become easily chapped. Unless you want scrappy, cracked lips, then sure go for it. For the rest of you, simply drink water, follow the recommended minimum of 8 cups a day. Try drinking an extra glass of water per day and you should see the result real soon.

No Licking

Many people think that dry lips can be solved with licking to keep them moist. Well, they are very wrong. While you get that instant gratification of having softer lips, it will immediately backfire and go back being drier than it was previously. Then you will lick them again and again, causing the cycle to go on. Saliva is not a good moistener. Use lip balm instead and never lick your lips.

No Biting

Biting your lips only damage them. You can’t really expect to have beautiful lips if they are bitten every now and then. As sexy as a bite can be, biting lips can cause gradual damage.

If you must, do everything that discourages yourself from biting the lips. You can try wearing lipstick, or using a lip balm, things that you just don’t want to accidently wipe or taste. Do what suits you best, remember that habitual biting might result in accidental bleeding one day.

Sun Protection

The lips are as important to protect as the rest of your skin. Your lips need the protection from the sun too. Yes, if you didn’t know, lips do get sunburnt and those are really unpleasant and discomforting.

Sunscreen for lips comes in the form of lip balm usually. Check for SPF in the balm. SPF15 is usually sufficient for autumn and spring, SPf20 is the minimum to get on winter and summer.

Beetroot Balm

Why this works:

Few people like the taste of beetroot, but those lovely red stains will stay on your lips, leaving your lips looking pinker. Coupled with the high vitamin C content, beetroot also decreases pigmentation. The complementing butter and oil moisturize the lips. Beeswax in the ingredients keep the lips hydrated longer.

You will need:

• Half teaspoon beetroot powder

• One tablespoon cocoa/shea butter

• One tablespoon beeswax pellets

• Two tablespoons olive oil

What you have to do:

1. Have the butter, oil and beeswax pellet read in a heat proof jar (glass or equivalent).

2. Heat water up in a pot, place the jar in it.

3. Stir the ingredients in the jar as they melt.

4. Beetroot powder will be added at this stage. Continue stirring until the mix is even.

5. Let the concoction cool down to set.

6. Make sure it's room temperature before applying it with the lip brush.

7. Feel free to apply as often.

Honey and Lemon Juice

Why this works:

Lemon is excellent for its skin lightening properties, with regular use, it will remove pigmentation and your lips will be pinker. Honey is the humectant, keeping your lips well-moisturized, so they are supple and soft.

You will need:

• Half teaspoon lemon juice

• One teaspoon honey

What you have to do:

1. Mix the lemon juice and honey together.

2. Apply the concoction onto your lips, leave them on for around 15 minutes.

3. Clean them off with a gentle washcloth, then moisturize your lips with a lip balm.

4. Do it once daily.

Chocolate Lip Treatment

Why this works:

Dry lips can actually darken the color of the lips. Cocoa butter helps with keeping your lips moisturized. The chocolate, on the other hand, has high antioxidant resveratrol content, which unlike how you think it will work, reduces melanin produced and thus preventing lips darkening.

You will need:

• Half teaspoon chocolate chips

• One teaspoon cocoa butter

• One vitamin E capsule

What you have to do:

1. Get a double boiler going. Melt the two chocolate ingredients together.

2. To the melted mixture, add the vitamin capsule

3. Let the balm cool down and set before using it

4. Apply as often as you like, whenever the lips are dry

Olive Oil and Sugar Scrub

A pinch of sugar with a few drops of olive oil. Mix them well in a bowl and your exfoliator is ready. Rub them gently over your lips for roughly a minute, then rinse clean with water. End it with a lip balm to protect them from dryness. It’s a simple yet effective home remedy for exfoliating lips, leaving them pink and gets rid of cracked lips. Once every alternate day will help to maintain that soft and smooth lips.

Toothbrush Exfoliation

Use your toothbrush to remove the dead skin. Moist it and gently rub it over the lips in a circular motion. Gentle movement or you might hurt the lips. The toothbrush massage will scrub ooff the dead skin and stimulate more blood flowing through the lips, leaving you with a pinker lips. Be careful, however, bacteria from your teeth could get into your lips with the toothbrush.

Honey-Sugar Lip Scrub

Mix some honey and sugar together to make the exfoliating scrub. Do the same as you would with the olive oil and sugar mix, gently massaging the lips as you go. You will end up with a well-moisturized lips, which are supple and soft after the exfoliation.