It's February and February is synonymous with LOVE.
I don't know if it happens to you, but when I celebrate love my eyes shine in a special way and I look prettier than usual. I want to take care of myself more and I like to enhance the luminosity that my skin radiates by accompanying it with beautiful makeup and of course, some lips made up in my favorite color for this month: SOME RED LIPS ON THE RED CARPET.
But what about red lips??
Well, if your lips are not well cared for, red lipstick can only make them look aged and dull, especially in winter.
How to properly care for your lips?
Lip care is something that when I establish a beauty routine I usually highlight a lot and it usually surprises me.. Lips are a very important part of our face, They need special care because they have much thinner skin than the rest of the face and aesthetically, are the 50% with pretty makeup.
To make lips look healthy, We just need to make a few small additions to our beauty routine.:
- Use a daily lip balm.
- Perform lip exfoliation, at least once a week.
- Use a mask to treat intensively.
What is the best lip balm?
To choose a good lip balm, It is essential that we be attentive to the ingredients that make it up. Among the ingredients that a good lip balm should contain are:
- Butters, like shea or cocoa, whose function is to deeply nourish.
- Oils, like castor bean, the jojoba one, the almond one or the olive one, whose function is to repair damage
- Waxes, like bee or soy, whose function is to soften and nourish.
- Vitamin E, like tocopherol, which acts as an antioxidant like the one you can find in products like ANTIOX N5.
- solar filter, such as titanium oxide or zinc oxide, that create a protective film that prevents solar radiation from causing damage to the skin. Yes indeed, prevent these filters from being in the form of nanoparticles.
What should my lip balm not contain??
Among the ingredients to avoid in a lip balm would be:
- Petrolates, cheap and low quality ingredients, petroleum derivatives, that work well in the short term.
- Agua, A lip balm should not contain water since its presence would contribute nothing and the higher the water content, the lower the amount of active ingredients and the greater the need for preservatives to avoid bacterial infections..
- Preservatives, They are not necessary unless the formula contains water.
- Antioxidants such as BHT and BHA, that are harmful to the environment.
- Dyes, They can cause allergies and are harmful to the environment..
- Perfumes, can cause allergies.
- Chemical filters such as benzophenone-3 that can cause allergies.
How to use lip balm?
Everything doesn't end here, In addition to containing good ingredients, We must take into account a series of precautions when using a lip balm:
- Use the bar format better than the jar format, since fingers can contaminate the cosmetic.
- Both protectors and lipsticks are for personal use.. We should not share them with other people.
- We must preserve them properly, in a cool and dry place, paying attention to its expiration date.
- Do not use if the lips have wounds or any pathology.
- Reapply a few times a day, The first application could be the finishing touch to our morning skin routine..
If in addition to these precautions, We perform a weekly lip exfoliation accompanied by an intensive mask, our lips will be the envy of the stalls.
Tell me what you think of these tips and what your lip routine usually is..
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