Lip Care Tips | Azul Skin Health Lip Kit
Keep your lips healthy, hydrated and luscious
By Carla Snuggs
With fall well underway and winter approaching, lip care is at the top of my skincare regimen. Exposure to sun, wind and cold, dry air can contribute to chapped lips, according to the WebMD. Regular care of your lips will keep them looking youthful.
Tsippora Shainhouse, MD, FAAD., board-certified dermatologist in Beverly Hills, provided insight into the best ways to care for our lips this season. I’ve been practicing these tips along with using my Azul Skin Health Lip Kit regularly and now my lips are healthy, hydrated and luscious!
6 Lip Care Tips
Use Lip products with humectants (glycerin, hyaluronic acid, honey) and natural oils and butters (cocoa butter, shea butter, argan oil, coconut oil, avocado oil) as they will add hydration and moisture to dry lips.
Greasy or waxy balms will create a protective layer to hold in moisture and seal and smooth the outer epidermal layer of the lips.
Don’t forget to wear sunscreen on your lips, even in the winter. Lips have thin skin and very little melanin, so they have minimal innate protection from aging and damaging UV rays. UV can reflect off of snow, just as easily as water and sand. Use a moisturizing or protective balm with SPF 15 or higher.
Re-think your lip cosmetics. Matte lipsticks can look cool, but they can dry out your lips and make them more sensitive to potential contact irritants and allergens in your lipsticks, including fragrances, parabens, dyes and preservatives.
Avoid alcohol-based mouthwashes. These can dry out your lips and increase chapping, cracks and irritability.
Try not to lick your lips. Although it will add temporary wetness to the lips when they feel dry, the saliva will actually evaporate and make the lips drier, irritated and sensitive to products
Azul Skin Health Lip Kit
As an Azul Skin Health brand ambassador, I’ve received some pretty amazing products and they just keep getting better and better. The Azul Skin Lip Kit helps keep my lips plumped, hydrated, exfoliated, and restored. The kit contains four newly formulated products: Maximizing Lip Plumper, Exfoliating Lip Scrub, Daily Lip Balm and Overnight Lip Recovery Treatment. The kit comes in a super cute makeup bag.
Maximizing Lip Plumper
Description: Our lip plumper will give you the perfect pout you’ve always dreamed of! This product contains two active ingredients that work together to enhance the appearance of fuller and more voluminous lips. Our propriety blend of oils, extracts, active ingredients and polymers create an effective lip plumping complex that instantly stimulates lips, promoting natural circulation to help create fuller-looking lips. It has a warming effect that provides instant and long-lasting results for up to 4 hours.
My thoughts: I love the way this lip plumper feels on my lips – super moisturized and lush. My lips are already pretty full, but I use it occasionally when I want that extra luscious look in my photos and it lasts almost 4 hours. If you have thin lips you will absolutely love this lip plumper.
Exfoliating Lip Scrub
Description: As with every other part of your body, your lips also need a good exfoliation. And our lip scrub will do just that! A luxe combination of jojoba and coconut oils mixed with shea and mango butters work together to restore hydration and moisturize your lips while sugar and bamboo provide gentle exfoliation.
My thoughts: My lips are almost always on the dry side. I exfoliate here and there, but this lip scrub is next level. It is gentle, yet effective. It removes all the dry skin, revealing beautifully soft lips. I like to use this lip scrub twice a week.
Daily Lip Balm
Description: If you don’t currently use a lip balm in your daily skin care regimen, you’ll want to add this one to your skin care routine ASAP! Our lip balm contains luxurious oils and butters, and two active ingredients that will leave your lips smooth and hydrated. One ingredient stimulates collagen production and glycosaminoglycan synthesis, resulting in moisturized, smoother and the appearance of more firm, defined lips. The second active ingredient is derived from sesame seeds that enhance adipocytes for the appearance of wrinkle-smoothing and lip-plumping effects. This daily lip balm will leave you with soft, supple, fuller-looking lips!
My thoughts: I used to think lip balm was lip balm. They are NOT all created equal and there is a reason Azul is so successful at bringing professional quality skincare products for us to use at home; my lips actually appear younger after using this lip balm daily. And it feels so luxe. It's kind of addictive!
Overnight Lip Recovery Treatment
Description: Refresh and restore dry lips with our overnight lip recovery treatment! This product contains ceramides to enhance skin barrier function, sesame seed derivative to smooth and plump, and peptides to decrease the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. This intense overnight lip treatment works to moisturize, soothe, and condition your lips and that delicate skin around them!
My thoughts: This overnight lip treatment is a game changer! I sleep with the AC up high every night and used to wake up with the driest lips. I apply this right before bed and my lips are soft and moisturized when I wake up. Also, I am a huge fan of overnight treatments for my skin. As your body starts going through different stages of sleep, your body is restored through cellular regeneration and collagen production and this lip recovery treatment certainly helps with this process.
I highly recommend this lip recovery treatment and suggest gifting this during the holidays as well. Shop: Azul Skin Health Lip Kit
*This blog post is sponsored by Azul Skin Health.
What are your favorite lip treatments or lip care tips? Leave your comments below!