This honey lip scrub with cinnamon is a great way to get rid of chapped, dry lips for good! It smells heavenly, it's made using only ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen and it's a total powerhouse when it comes to moisturizing your lips.
Cinnamon, our very own dalchini, has the property of inflaming the mucous membrane which results into the flash of blood drift. This enhanced blood flow results into swelling up of the lips, giving them fuller and rosier appearance.
“Cinnamon actually irritates the lips and causes blood to rush towards them giving a more plushed and plumping effect,” she tells Teen Vogue. (Most lip-plumping glosses on the market also rely on irritants, derived from the likes of chili peppers and other ingredients, to achieve this effect.)
Cinnamon and olive oil scrub
This scrub combines the goodness of cinnamon powder and olive oil to give you soft, pink lips naturally. Cinnamon is a natural exfoliant for your lips; it reduces the dead skin cells and gives you lighter lips. The olive oil and sugar hydrate your lips and prevent them from getting chapped.
Add beeswax, shea butter, and coconut oil to the bowl and heat until beeswax melts, stirring occasionally. When the beeswax is melted, remove the bowl from the heat and stir in honey and the cinnamon essential oil. Pour into lip balm tubes or tins. Let cool before use.
Cinnamon has the benefits of tasting and smelling fantastic (it's one of my favorite scents and flavors ever!), and it also acts as a natural colorant for your lip balm.
Honey is great to use in homemade lip glosses because it's a humectant, meaning it attracts and retains water. It also adds a nice shine and tastes great, too! You can also use a double boiler if you don't have a microwave.
The experience
I simply mix half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon with a tiny drop to make a paste and then I spend 10 minutes massaging it into my lips. My lips begin to tingle after about 30 seconds and they don't stop tingling for about a day! It feels lush.
Vaseline is super moisturising on your lips and the cinnamon helps to make your lips plump. To make this lip plumper, add a teaspoon of cinnamon oil and half a teaspoon of Vaseline. Combine the ingredients well into a bowl. You can even use cinnamon powder instead of the oil.
Compounds in cinnamon essential oil actually cause a mild irritation when applied to the skin. The blood then rushes to the surface, causing your lips to become slightly inflamed and puffy. But don't worry. This is generally safe!
Yes. It's because cinnamon contains cassia oil, which has many benefits (1). It is a calming agent and does not harm your skin when used topically. However, it irritates your mucus membrane when applied to the lips.
Too much sun exposure: Spending too much time under direct sunlight without proper protection can cause lips to thin. UV rays from the sun can cause the collagen in your lips to break down. Smoking: Nicotine from cigarettes can decrease the amount of oxygen being delivered to the lip tissues, causing thinning.
No. They may get smaller with age, but not grow. As an adolescent reaches puberty, their lips may widen to match the growth of their jawbone, but the tissue will often soften and recede with age. Which is why rejuvenation of the lips is so popular with those in their middle ages.
To exfoliate and plump your lips at the same time, use this DIY lip plumper. Mix 1 tablespoon of olive or sweet almond oil, 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon and 1 tablespoon of white sugar in a small bowl. Then, massage onto your lips for 5 to 10 minutes to help stimulate blood flow and make your lips appear fuller.
Move from side to side: Press your lips together and move it from left to right and then right to left. Repeat this five times. This will boost the volume of your lips. Rotate them: Press your lips together and rotate in clockwise motion thrice, and then in anti-clockwise direction.
Did you know that honey can make a great ingredient for lip balm? And did you also know that making your own homemade lip balm can actually be quite simple? Here are a few different flavors for you to craft at home to help soften and rejuvenate your lips.
Honey serves a couple of purposes in DIY lip balm recipes. First, it sweetens it up a little making it nice for spreading and flavor on the lips. Second honey is very soothing to the skin making it for sun or wind burned lips.
We recommend that you first melt your lip base formula and then stir in the solid Stevia/Coconut Oil. The heat from your melted base will gently incorporate the Stevia/Coconut Oil. If you absolutely insist on pre-melting the Stevia/Coconut Oil, we suggest you use a "Hot Water Bath".
Well hydrated lips naturally appear fuller and bigger. You can use a nourishing lip balm and reuse it throughout the day whenever your lips feel dry. Apart from this, don't forget to drink enough water to stay hydrated from the inside. Your lips tend to get drier when your body is dehydrated.
As we age, our bodies produce less collagen and elastin, which are necessary for skin to look full and plump. The lips are no exception. Without collagen production, the lips can lose their fullness and become very thin. If you want lips that are fuller, more youthful, and more kissable, there is a solution.
Most men and women notice their lips begin to thin some time in their early 30s and 40s. Unfortunately, this is also the age at which certain other body parts do the opposite.