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Eco Beauty

Get Soft Lips in Seconds With This DIY Sugar Scrub

Earth Month is the perfect time to experiment with eco-friendly beauty recipes, like this three-ingredient, skin-softening lip scrub from founder of LaLicious, Jessica Kernochan.

Earth Month is the perfect time to experiment with eco-friendly beauty recipes, like this three-ingredient, skin-softening lip scrub from founder of LaLicious, Jessica Kernochan. "Honey is a natural skin softener and sugar is used to exfoliate," she explains. Kernochan also likes to add a little coconut oil for added nourishment. The details below:

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 tablespoon honey
A dab of coconut oil

Directions:
Apply the mixture to your lips with your fingers and scrub them gently in small circular motions. Rinse the scrub off with warm water, pat dry, and apply your favorite balm.

Want to get in on more Earth Month action? Proceeds from the LaLicious Sugar Reef Collection will give back to Save Our Shores, which protects and preserves the marine life of Monterey Bay in California.

Fresh Cosmetics

What We're Sweet On: A Lip Exfoliator That's Unrefined

Rough, peeling lips underneath your favorite matte lipstick (or any lipstick for that matter) are never a good thing.


Rough, peeling lips underneath your favorite matte lipstick (or any lipstick for that matter) are never a good thing. Enter your salvation: Fresh Sugar Lip Polish ($23). Unlike most lip scrubs, Fresh's formula doesn't shy away from coarse crystals. The brown sugar granules slough away dead skin, giving your lips a smooth finish, while shea butter, jojoba oil, and grapeseed oil lend moisture. Plus, an extra burst of vitamin E helps protects your reserves of collagen and elastin. And if you haven't tried this lip scrub's body polish brother, then you've yet to discover how sweet an exfoliator sugar can be.

DIY

DIY Spa Treatment Recap: Scrubs For the Rest of Your Body

Rub-a-dub-dub, let's put a homemade scrub in your tub.

Rub-a-dub-dub, let's put a homemade scrub in your tub. Check out six sumptuous recipes to pamper different parts of your body (other than just hands and feet). All sugary sweet but not to eat, the crafty concoctions below will have your skin soft in no time.


Brown Sugar
Body Scrub

Sesame Ginger
Body Scrub


Honey Mint
Body Scrub


Lavender Pecan
Body Scrub


Lemon Sugar
Lip Scrub


Coffee Clove
Body Scrub


DIY

DIY: A Sweet and Spicy Lip Scrub For Valentine's Day

I love cinnamon-sugar toast and I love smooth lips.

I love cinnamon-sugar toast and I love smooth lips. And with Valentine's Day just around the corner, I'm taking a little inspiration from one of my favorite breakfast treats and turning it into a sweet and spicy lip scrub — minus the crispy bread, of course. Bonus? It tastes great and the invigorating properties of cinnamon gets the blood a-flowing, too. To get kissable lips, check out my recipe below:

  • Start with a base. I like something waxy, such as good old ChapStick ($1.89).
  • Scrape off a little ChapStick with a knife or small spatula and make a paste-like consistency by adding sugar.
  • Add a sprinkle of cinnamon, apply, and get smooching.

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Lip Balm

Chase Away Chapped Lips

If you're anything like me, you love your lip products!

If you're anything like me, you love your lip products! In the past we've covered lots of great lip balms and many different lip scrubs, but here are a few more products new to the market that I know you won't want to miss. Not only are these items must haves for yourself, but at $15 or less, they also make fab stocking stuffers!

Karma Creatives Karma Therapy Buddha Balm ($3) is a lip balm that comes in a variety of fruit flavors (grapefruit, cherry vanilla, strawberry, and watermelon) packed in an adorable slender vintage slider. Not only does it contain natural sunscreen and keep your lips feeling silky smooth in the harsh winter months, but at just .3 ounces it's an easy fit into any clutch or small pocket. Who could resist keeping a little good karma close by? Since the products aren't sold online, you can click here to find a stockist closest to you.

For two more products to help chase away chapped lips, just read more

lip scrub

New Product Alert: LanoLip Lip Scrub

The amazing Miranda Coggins and the rest of the LanoLip research team has just released a new product called LanoLip LipScrub ($9.99).

The amazing Miranda Coggins and the rest of the LanoLip research team has just released a new product called LanoLip LipScrub ($9.99). This product helps bring the concept of smooth, healthy lips full circle.

The lip scrub combines medical-grade lanolin, jojoba oil, sweet almond oil and Vitamin E to bring you a 100% edible, sweet exfoliating treat! Simply swirl your pinky around in the pot and gently rub it onto your lips in a circular motion. The result is a moisturized, super-soft, baby pink pout.

Also, LanoLip Lip Scrub is available in four variations: chocolate, cappuccino, vanilla and unscented. Use them individually or combine them together to create your own fab flavored lip scrub! To check out a couple more lip scrubs, click here.

Lip Gloss

Bellissima! Bourjois Duo Lip Scrub & Baume

This super-cool Bourjois Duo Lip Scrub & Baume ($17) is a two-in-one treatment.

This super-cool Bourjois Duo Lip Scrub & Baume ($17) is a two-in-one treatment. It's a sheer, baby pink lip balm that also comes with a lip-exfoliating buffer in the cap. Just like you brush your teeth and your hair, you can now brush your lips!

Begin by smoothing the buffer over your lips in small circular motions. Wipe away the dead skin and then moisturize your perfect pout with the glycerin-infused hydrating balm.

The best part is that the good-for-you gloss also has little iridescent pearly prisms in the formula, so it gives you a light and gorgeous glow! I love a little gimmick in my gloss—plus, a two-in-one product like this is a real bang for the buck!

Philosophy

Lip Loofahs: Tis The Season For Smooth Smackers

With Valentine's Day coming up in t-minus 10 days, and all of this talk about sexy lip plumpers, sexy lip glosses, and sexy lip stains, it's time to get your kissers into shape.

With Valentine's Day coming up in t-minus 10 days, and all of this talk about sexy lip plumpers, sexy lip glosses, and sexy lip stains, it's time to get your kissers into shape. These exfoliators are made especially for your lips. They will scrub away any dullness, flakiness or cracking and make your lips look pink, soft and supple. Here are three new lip exfoliators to check out this season!

The Lip Scrub by Sara Happ, $20, was created by a 27-year-old beauty entrepreneur. Happ, a self proclaimed lip beauty product junkie was sick and tired of having to concoct her own at home lip scrubs to get rid of dry, flaky skin so she decided to do something about it. One last time she mixed and measured in the kitchen and came up with the lip scrub.

It contains ingredients to exfoliate and eliminate chapped lips. Just massage a small amount onto your lips using a gentle and circular motion. Wipe away with a tissue and take a deep breath in to soak up the yummy aroma! Available in six flavors: cocoa, almond creme, peppermint, vanilla bean, cinnamon sugar and brown sugar.

To see more lip scrubs, read more