How to Cure Dry Chapped Lips through Home Remedies

Chapped lips are a very common skin problem. They become very painful when extremely dry. They become red and chapped when dry. Situation is bad when the weather is dry. This problem cannot be cured with just moisturizer. One needs to apply something else like petroleum jelly on the lips.

Lack of water in the body makes the lips dry. Some medicines do have side effects on the skin, which causes cracks in the lips. Lack of vitamins and nutrition in the diet also affects the softness of the lips. At times cold dry air makes the skin dry and cracked. Giving some more attention to the lips, regularly apply some petroleum jelly and lip balm on the lips to avoid dryness.

Apply certain remedies to get rid of chapped lips:

• Keep the body hydrate by drinking lots of water. People who do not drink sufficient water are more prone to get dry lips and dry skin. Water or fluids keep the body moist which keeps the skin soft and supple.
• Apply lip balm or petroleum jelly on the lips to keep them smooth.
• Many people keep wetting their lips with their tongue, which makes the lips dark, and color and lose the moister. Stop wetting lips with tongue rather apply moisturizer.
• Excessive use of lipsticks on the lips too makes them dark and dry. At times let them breathe without putting anything on them. Before applying lip color apply some lip balm or moisturizer on your lips to keep them moist.
• Always put petroleum jelly or lip balm on the lips while going to the bed.
• One old remedy of healing dry cracked lips is applying butter or pure ghee into the naval. Oldies say that it makes the lips smooth and heal the cracks faster.
• Soak rose petals in raw milk for few hours. Then make it a paste and apply on the lips to keep them pink and smooth. This helps the lips to retain their lost color.
• Milk cream can be applied many times on the lips to remove the dry dead skin and to make them smooth.
• Never peel the dead dry skin from the lips. Keep on applying petroleum jelly, lip balm or milk cream on them and the dry skin will go automatically.
• Apply moisturizer-based lipstick on the lips then the dry ones.
• Applying glycerin on the lips with a little honey to it too is quite helpful in healing the cracks of the lips and to make them soft and smooth.
• Applying castor oil on badly dried lips helps them to retain their smoothness.
• Always go in the sun wearing sunscreen on your lips. Otherwise lips get dry, dark and patchy.
• Crushing rose petals in glycerin helps them to retain the color and lost moister.