Have You Thought About Lip Exfoliator?

I was getting horribly chapped winter lips and tend to carry 5 tubes of chapstick and some vaseline in my purse just stop them from cracking and bleeding. Then I remembered that I stop doing something that I used to do –  exfoliate my lips. It’s the solution to gross winter chappedness:

  I originally found The Body Shop’s Lip Scuff  when I was a teenager and fell in love with it. Over the course of more than a decade, they have changed the formula many times and I have to admit the current version has finer grain and doesn’t exfoliate the way the old one does, but at $11.50 the product is worth your money and does leave lips silky smooth.

 

   If you’re more indulgent or a product nut like myself, you might be interested in trying The Lip Scrub,  a line from Australian Sara Happ that features absolutely nothing but lip scrubs. She invented it in her kitchen and boasts yummy flavors such as brown sugar, peppermint, vanilla bean, and almond creme… but at $29.99 a box you might want to plan on only using it during the winter. 

  

Skin Saver: Dead Sea Products

    

 

 

I have gone in the Dead Sea at least 10 times in my life and I have to say it does have a profound effect on skin. For those of you not willing to make the pilgrimage, try treating yourself to a Dea Sea mineral water bath or mud pack every 6 months or so. At $5.95 from The Jerusalem Gift Shop  you can totally afford it. It amazingly relieves all kinds of skin problems included extreme dryness, breakouts, eczema, and psoriasis and gives skin an incredibly hydrated feel and unified tone. Dead Sea products are especially kind to angry winter city skin.