We spend years meticulously curating our skin care rituals with cleansers, serums and moisturizers, but what about our lips?
Consistently exposed to environmental elements, a lip care routine should be essential in your beauty regimen.
Wondering how to get soft lips? From gentle exfoliation to boosting moisture, our expert guide helps you achieve a soft and plump pout in just a few simple steps.
Why is Lip Care Important?
The lips feature delicate skin that’s frequently subjected to stressors, such as eating, drinking, and cold air, so they require some extra TLC all year round.
A considerate lip care routine could help to soothe this area, and creating one has never been easier with our guide.
How Do You Build a Lip Care Routine: Step-By-Step
From cleansing to protection, our guide breaks down the best lip care routine for you, including how to get rid of dry lips and keep them soft.
Step One: Cleanse
Cleansing is an essential first step in any skin care-based ritual. Starting with a clean surface supports smoothness, comfort, and provides a blank canvas for your other products to work on.
Included in our Lip Repair Kit, the Micro-Retinol Essential Foaming Cleanser works to melt away makeup, debris and impurities before beginning your routine.
Step Two: Exfoliate
As a delicate area, lips can sometimes collect rough, flaky skin that leaves the surface feeling uneven. Exfoliation offers a gentle reset, visibly removing dry skin and encouraging a soft, smooth pout.
When used in moderation, a lip scrub could be a thoughtful addition to your beauty ritual. By sloughing away build-up, it helps the lips appear smoother, plumper, and more refined.
Here's how to exfoliate lips:
Starting with clean, dry lips, apply a small amount of your chosen lip scrub.
Using light, circular motions, gently massage the surface with minimal pressure. Then, rinse and remove the product to enjoy a renewed, soft-looking surface.
We recommend limiting exfoliation to once or twice a week to prevent unnecessary abrasiveness and compromising the lip’s natural barrier.
Step Three: Treatment
Targeted treatments, like serums or balms, could be the secret to lasting softness.
Unfortunately, dryness isn’t the only barrier to smooth, soft lips. Fine lines and creases could also affect overall lip condition, impacting the appearance of volume and plumpness.
Implementing targeted actives into your lip care routine may help to address age-related concerns. Ingredients including hyaluronic acid, collagen and retinol could improve the appearance of lip lines and may support elasticity loss.
Included in our Lip Repair Kit, our Micro-Retinol Essential Serum helps to refine texture, while respecting the delicate nature of the lips and surrounding skin.
Struggling with dry, flaky lips? The key to softness lies within consistent conditioning. Moisture-locking actives, such as shea butter, coconut oil, and glycerin, work to address TEWL Transepidermal Water Loss and support the natural skin barrier.
Ultimately, the best way to moisturize lips is an enriching Lip Balm. Our Rapid-Restore formula helps to retain moisture and defend against further dryness.
Expert Tip: Drinking plenty of fluids throughout the day helps support the skin’s natural barrier, which in turn keeps moisture levels balanced.
Step Four: Protection
Protecting the lips is an essential final step in maintaining long-term comfort.
Daily exposure to environmental stressors may contribute to dryness, making protection key to preserving softness and smoothness.
Vitamin C is an example of a potent antioxidant that works to neutralize free radicals while lending moisturizing benefits. SPF also makes a thoughtful addition to your lip care routine, helping to shield them against potentially harmful UV rays that may cause dryness and discomfort.
Perfecting your lip care routine is the key to maintaining supple, soft lips. Follow all four steps, prioritize daily conditioning, and experience improved comfort with lips that look and feel fresher.
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