What can we do to prevent lips from getting dry and chapped?
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Q: What can we do to prevent lips from getting dry and chapped? Any useful tricks to protect lips in the winter?
Jessica, New York (via email)
A: Dry lips can be soothed and moisturised with olive oil mixed with beeswax. This is the purest thing you can apply to your lips. I love castor and coconut oils but I find olive oil more nourishing for winter time.
Here’s a super easy recipe: take a tea cup and combine a small cube of beeswax, approximately half-ounce, and two teaspoons olive oil.
You can also add a small dollop of honey to this blend, if you like, but again, if you make the balm too sweet you will be prompted to lick your lips too often, and that’s not good! That’s why I prefer to make lip balms that are neutral to taste and are not fragranced. Unbleached beeswax always has a faint honeycomb smell, it’s more than enough to disguise the aroma of the oil.
Combine olive oil (or any oil of your choice) and beeswax, cover the cup with a non-PVC kitchen film and microwave for 15 seconds or until the oil and wax melt. I never use microwave for cooking but I guess it’s more or less OK for skincare!
Carefully stir the blend and pour it into any empty tins or tiny pots you have around the home.
Empty jars from eye creams or mini size products or samples are excellent! You can add some color with raspberry, beets or even strawberry juice. You can also add some mineral shimmer if you like.
You can buy unbleached beeswax or olive wax online, it’s a great money saver, and you can use it to make your own face moisturizers, hair balms, feet and hand treatments, virtually anything!
In my vegan products, I use olive wax which is non-animal derived, so you may prefer to use it, it’s very simple to use, and it’s absolutely unscented.
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