Raw Foods and Lip Care

If you were absent the day they were handing out full, voluptuous and well defined lips, you do not have to settle for chapped and peeling lips, nor do you have to resort to artificial lip enhancement. Raw food is a remedy for imperfect lips!

First of all, when it comes to the lips, the bottom lip is most often naturally fuller than the top one. The border of your lips is known as the vermilion. Since the skin on lips is quite thin compared to the normal skin on the face, it contains less of the pigment producing cells.

The reason your lips appear red is because this thin skin reveals the blood vessels underneath. The skin of the lips contains no hair or sweat glands, and therefore is more susceptible to the elements and becomes dry and chapped easily. Also, lips are full of nerve endings, which makes them very sensitive.

The most effective thing you can do to enhance the physical appearance of your ‘smackers’ are exercises. Exercises for the lips are invaluable for firming and toning the muscles around the lips, known as the ‘orbicularis oris’, contributing to fullness. What’s more, they are quick and easy to do. There are several excellent exercises in my book “Rawsome Flex “.

Except for your daily sunbathing routine (which I hope you are doing judiciously) lips should be protected from overexposure to sun by wearing a hat, not sunblock. Please do not cover the sensitive skin on the lips with chemical laden cosmetics.

A little coconut oil as needed should suffice. This will also serve as a nice natural lip gloss. If you wear lip products, it is essential that you locate pure, organic lip colors. Outlining the vermilion with a matching lip pencil will help keep your lipstick from bleeding.

To keep your lips moist and healthy, your best weapon is moisturizing from the inside out with the raw food diet, especially juicing and green smoothies.

One of my readers wrote:

I have found that if you add 2 small passion fruit to the pineapple crush and have the drink daily for a few days, your lips will start to plump up. This was definitely not an allergic reaction because my husband’s lips also started to fill out a bit more. My friend noticed the change in my lips over a week and asked what I had done. She grows her own passion fruit and decided to try the same drink. The next time I saw her she had a fuller lip line and far smoother lips. My lips have kept their new shape and have not gone down since. We found this quite interesting.

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Lips should also be exfoliated gently, just like your face. You don’t want to use your facial dry brush on the lips, though. Nightly you can massage your lips gently with a washcloth or soft toothbrush to exfoliate, stimulate circulation and help keep their rosy color, and then apply castor oil before you go to sleep.

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, you still have plenty of time to get those lips in the best shape possible. Pucker up!