Regular exfoliating of your lips with this Spearmint Lip Scrub will help keep your lips soft, smooth and healthy. Lip scrubs are a great inexpensive addition to you beauty routine. This is something that you can do quickly once or twice a week.
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Spearmint
In a previous post, I dehydrated some spearmint from my garden and that is what I am using in this sugar scrub. I wanted to make sure that it was ground into a fine powder, because we do not want to damage our lips so I ground it up in a mortar and pestle.
Exfoliator
My favorite exfoliator for lips is sugar; just regular white granulated sugar. Sugar is not too rough of an exfoliator, because we do not want to use anything that might damage our lips. It also tastes good, which is important since often times you will get a bit of the scrub in your mouth when you are using it. And lastly I like to use it because, it is inexpensive and you probably already have it in your cupboards.
Oil
I used caster oil in this lip scrub but it can easily be swapped out for another carrier oil that you have on hand. The important thing is that we have an oil in the scrub. Our lips are unlike the rest of our skin because it does not have sebaceous glands, that produce oil. This is why we need to ensure that we are moisturizing and exfoliating as they are more prone to chapping.
Caster oil is a humectant, which means that it is going to help with retaining the moisture on your lips. It is a very dense oil that is packed with omega fatty acids.
How to exfoliate your lips
Rinse your face with water.
Apply a small amount of the Spearmint lip scrub to your fingers.
Gently rub in small circular motions on your lips.
Rinse and pat dry.
Apply a lip balm. (Check out this Monkey Farts Lip Balm)
Making Spearmint Lip Scrub
Weight out all of your ingredients.
Grind the spearmint into a fine powder with a mortal and pestle.
Add the sugar into the caster oil and mix well.
Add the spearmint powder to the sugar mixture and mix well.
Spearmint Lip Scrub
Equipment
- Mortar and Pestle
Ingredients
- .66 ounce | 66% White Granulated Sugar
- .32 ounce | 32% Caster Oil
- .02 ounce | 2% Spearmint
Instructions
- Weight out all of your ingredients.
- Grind the spearmint into a fine powder with a mortal and pestle.
- Add the sugar into the caster oil and mix well.
- Add the spearmint powder to the sugar mixture and mix well.