Cut lips: the best natural remedies

The dry climate, the cold, the sudden changes of temperature or simply the lack of hydration They can make our lips dry. If we do not take care of them or we have them very sensitive, it is easy that in the end we also end up with the chapped or chapped lips. Aside from looking less pretty, cut lips can bleed and be painful.

In addition to hydrate well inside and avoid very dry environments, we can apply lipsticks that combat dry lips. It is best to use natural lipsticks that moisturize and in turn protect avoiding the loss of moisture. We can also take extreme lip care in winter to prevent them from drying out.

Prevent and cure chapped lips

An alternative or complement to lipsticks is to resort directly to the help of medicinal plants that are used in many lipsticks. In phytotherapy we find several ideal plants to prevent or cure cut or chapped lips.

In this article we focus on two of the most effective:

1. Aloe vera, a great moisturizer and calmer

Aloe vera (Aloe vera (L.) Burm. aloe barbadensis) is a plant native to South Africa, planted in medicinal nurseries and gardens as an ornamental.

When due to the cold, excessive dryness or lack of hydration you suffer from dry, cracked lips or even bleeding points, aloe is revealed as a good solution within everyone’s reach.

Help to quickly hydrates dry lips, repairs damaged mucosa and restores smoothness to the skin in this area. It can also be used to eliminate canker sores and ulcers on the lips and in the oral cavity.

Properties of aloe useful for the care of dry lips: It is considered dermoprotective, emollient, demulcent, moisturizing, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, healing.How to apply on chapped lips: The pulp of the leaf is placed directly on the damaged lip, or in the form of creams, ointments and lipsticks.What parts of the plant do we use: The pulp of the leaves or parenchyma and the acibar or juice that is obtained by incision. Contains mucilages, resins, aloins

2. Shea butter to nourish and regenerate

Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa Kotschy) it’s a tree native to Africa, from the Sudan and Uganda to Cameroon and Senegal in the east, and is grown on plantations. Its production and sale help in many cases to local producers.

From this tree you get a well-known natural cosmetic productshea butter, ideal for the care of dry lips and chapped lips, even for chapped lips that are already bleeding.

Shea butter contains mucilages, unsaturated fatty acids (palmitic, stearic, oleic and linolenic) and vitamins A, C and E. Like aloe, it very quickly hydrates dry lips, regenerates damaged skin and restores its elasticity to the skin of the lips, although some persistence is important in the treatment.

Shea butter is also intended to treat eczema, pimples or boils that appear on the lips and their environment, and how ugly they are.

Shea properties useful for dry lips: It is moisturizing, cell regenerative, antiseptic, astringent, anti-inflammatory, dermoprotective, vitaminic, healing.How to apply on chapped lips: In lipstick or in the form of a fat cream or lip butter on dry or chapped lips. You will find a wide variety of products on the market that contain it.What parts of the plant do we use: To make the butter, the white seeds that hold the woody fruits of the shea are used, reminiscent of a chestnut. From them, after being crushed and boiled, the fatty substance that has a high regenerative power is obtained.