9 Home Remedies To Lighten Dark Lips
Every woman likes to have rosy and pink lips. Pinkish lips enhance your beauty. In this article you will find 9 best natural home remedies to lighten dark lips.
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Sometimes darker lips are genetically inherited and are most commonly found in dark complexioned people.
However, lifestyle is also a huge contributory factor in having darker lips. There are several factors that can cause your lips to get darker. The most common causes for darker lips are exposure to sun, UV rays, smoking, allergies, too much caffeine intake, hormonal imbalances and age.
Who does not like to have pink rosy lips? Everyone does. But you cannot wear lipstick or lip balms at all times. For your benefit we will tell you 8 best ways to lighten dark lips. Read on here for the best natural home remedies to help you in getting rosy pink lips.
1. Sugar Scrub: This natural scrub works as an excellent lips exfoliant. Whereas the sugar helps in getting rid of unwanted dead skin cells present on your lips, the butter helps to improve the color and enhance gloss on your lips. Make a thick paste by mixing three spoons of sugar powder with two spoons of butter. Use this mixture as a scrub over your lips. Try this natural beauty tip two to three times a week to get lighter lips.
2. Homemade Natural Scrub for lips: Make a thick turmeric paste by mixing milk with turmeric powder. Wet your lips with water and first scrub off your lips gently with a soft tooth brush. A soft tooth brush is a very good exfoliator for your lips. Apply a bit of the turmeric paste on all over your lips and let it remain there for not more than 2-3 minutes. Exfoliate your lips again gently with the soft tooth brush. You should do it lightly for 2-3 minutes, so that you do not scrape off healthy cells. Pat dry your lips and apply lip balm of your choice. It’s better to use homemade lip balm. Continue reading below for homemade lip balm recipe.
3. Lemon Juice: Lemon is known for its natural bleaching properties. Hence, it’s an effective natural home remedy to lighten dark lips. It can not only lighten dark lips, but also can remove darker patches and spots from your lips and skin. Lemon juice works to exfoliate your lip’s skin and brings up new tone on your lips. Squeeze a lemon and massage its fresh juice over your lips. You can apply this home remedy every night before you sleep to get glossy and pink lips.
4. Lemon, Sugar Lip Scrub: In a small bowl, mix in 1 teaspoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice and coconut oil. Add in and stir thoroughly 2 teaspoons of granulated sugar, a bit at a time to make thick paste of uniform consistency. If needed, you can add in more sugar. After mixing it well, you can transfer the scrub into a suitable storage container. It can be safely kept in fridge for about one week.
Apply a little bit of the scrub to your lips, and scrub it in circular motion. To effectively exfoliate your lips, use a small toothbrush. Rinse your lips with warm water, and apply a balm or gloss of your choice.
5. Honey: Honey is another natural home remedy to treat dark lips that have turned dark with age and external factors. Apply honey on all over your lips every night, let it dry and remain there overnight. It will not only lighten your lips, but also soften and give them a pink glow.
6. Beet Root: The deep purple color ingredient present in beetroot has natural properties to reduce gradually darkness of your lips and thus can cleanse and lighten your dark lips.
7. Homemade Strawberry Lip balm: To get naturally smooth pink lips, mix one spoon of strawberry with two spoons of petroleum jelly. Try this as a lip balm daily to get glossy pink lips.
8. Raspberry Scrub: Raspberry contains essential minerals and vitamins which can make your lips vibrant and bubbly. Make a paste by mixing raspberry with aloe vera and pure honey. Message and scrub your lips with this paste and rinse it off after 10 minutes. Thereafter apply a homemade lip balm on your lips to enhance gloss on your lips and give them pink color.
9. Olive Oil: Olive oil contains several vital minerals, vitamins and other nutrients. Scrub olive oil onto your lips before you sleep at night to soften your lips and give natural glow to them.
Now we have given above the best natural beauty tips to lighten your lips. Practice them and see how your lips bloom and glow like a pink rose.
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While natural pink lips are most important element of a woman and man’s charm which add to their appeal,dark lips can tarnish personal image and can cause embarrassment.There are many factors that can cause your lips to go dark. The main causes are the exposure to UV rays, allergies, smoking, caffeine intake and hormonal imbalances. However, dark lips are one of the most common problems affecting people of all ages.To get rid of dark lips one should go for LIP LITE. It works like a panacea for lips. It is particularly designed for de-pigmentation of lips. It helps to abate pigment formation that causes darkness and results in bright and pink lips that aesthetically define your face.
My upper lip is dark and it’s embarassing. Some people even ask me if I smoke but I really not. I saw in our kitchen that we have Filippo Berio Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Langnese Honey. Can I use these two to lighten my lips, if I put it every night?
@ Elle:
Yes you can scrub these two natural ingredients onto your lips before you sleep at night. You can also try homemade natural scrub recipes for lips, such as sugar scrub, given above in the article to lighten your upper lip.
I don’t have powdered sugar only regular sugar can this still work?
@Sanaa:
Yes, you can use regular sugar……..
You don’t have to use sugar powder..
Hi.
Just wanna ask how long will the scrub stay on the lips if will be using sugar scrub? Thank you!
@ Mel:
You need to simply apply a little bit of the lip sugar scrub to your lips, and just scrub it in circular motion. To effectively exfoliate your lips, use a small toothbrush. That’s all. Now rinse your lips with warm water, and apply a balm or gloss of your choice.
To make the strawberry lip balm. Is it fresh strawberries or powder? And how much please
@ Lee:
Take a couple of ripe strawberries and mash mash them. Mix one spoon of strawberry with two spoons of petroleum jelly to make strawberry lip balm.
How long will it take for the treatment to take full effect
@ Bandoh:
You will start seeing improvement in a month time. Continue with the remedy to keep your lips looking pretty and lucious…
I have dark lips genetically and since i have a dull complexion they make me look even more sallow. Will these remedies help even if i haven’t acquired the dark color rather have inherited it???
@Shivi:
These natural home remedies do not help much in case of inherited dark color or dark color due to genetics..
Can I use lime instead of lemon?
Yes, you can..
I have got a dark layer on my lips i think ita for smoking can i recover it
@Ansuman:
Smoking causes dark lips. You can lighten smokers’ dark lips by applying above lips lightening home remedies regularly. It will take time and you need to have patience.
These remedies to lighten lips are effective and easy to prepare. I must say… they work.
Super Tips. Specially the way you make and use the Scrub… Just Love it. 🙂
Besides, I got much similarities like this where it use to banish dark circles at this site.
Hope you may add some more from it.
i hv dark lips since birth…..wl dese home remedies work on dem?????????
@nikki:
If your problem is due to genetic coming from parents to children then these remedies may not make substantial improvement. However, to make your lips look beautiful and luscious apply these remedies:
(i) First of all you have to exfoliate your lips with some good natural ingredients. You can take brown or white sugar, lemon, olive oil and honey mix them together and rub it on your lips but do it gently. Then rinse it off.
(ii) When you are going to sleep take an old tooth brush and some toothpaste and apply on your lips every night. After 15 minutes wash it.
I hope you will see positive results.
You know. I have dark lips since birth and I want it to be pink. What should I do? Im not that too dark. And not that white. Im just having a moderate complexion . Why I have this dark lips? Help me pls.
People who are born with dark lips can not expect to get pink lips. However, you can lighten and make them look stunningly luscious by applying above remedies regularly.
like what you said @nikki?
what if i dont have honey and olive oil. does those remedies can make effective?
@wushi:
Yes, you can use other remedies that don’t require honey and olive as ingredients.
@wushi:
You can apply those of above remedies that don’t use honey and olive oil.
Here are some more home treatments to beautify your lips: http://naturalbeautytips.co/how-to-lighten-dark-lips-naturally/
I was not born with dark lips however with time my lips began to grow dark. My bottom lip is dark around the edges and my upper lip is dark as is. Do you think these remedies can work on me? My parents do not have dark lips but one of my grandmothers has darkish lips, though her colour improved with time.
@ Zee:
These remedies are best natural remedies to brighten your lips. Yes, these wiil work on you. Good luck…………
I have dark upper lips and pink lower lips.. is that genetic problem or can I able to lighten my dark upper lip.. I don’t smoke.. I used to have a cup of tea daily..
@jas:
When the hyperpigmentation occurs on your upper lip, this may be due to melasma. Although caffeine and nicotine use, as well as genetic factors, can play a role, the two major reasons for melasma are sun exposure and hormones.
Try following home remedies:
(i) Use a honey, lime and sugar scrub to exfoliate your lips and specially the upper lip. This removes the hair which gives your lips a shadow. Exfoliation also gets rid of dark and dead skin cells that help to give the lips a rosy glow.
(ii) Rub a lime on your lips. This helps to treat the pigmentation effectively as lime has natural bleaching characteristics. You can also dab on some lemon juice on your lips with the help of cotton. If you have a dark upper lip shadow, the lime juice will also help to lighten the hair.
If you don’t see any positive results after 5-6 weeks applying these remedies, you may consult a dematologist / skin specialist.
thank u.. surely I do..
I have dark upper lip but my pink lips are very pinkish..i have tried many things like using honey, toothbrush,lemon etc to make it pink…but i hv not yet acheived that pinkish lips..what else can i do to make my black lips pink?
Hello…..i have tried many things like using honey, toothbrush,lemon etc to make it pink…but i hv not yet acheived that pinkish lips..what else can i do to make my black lips pink?
@geetta:
Try this remedy:
Make a lips scrub by mixing sugar, honey and lime. Exfoliate your upper lip with this scrub to remove dark, dead skin cells. This will lighten the dark color of your upper lip.
My lips were pink
But because of too much use of lipstick my lips became dark.
This treatment will help me?
Pink Lips Cream is an excellent problem for this task
@ayesha:
Yes, use this treatment and the other above suggested remedies to restore pink color of your lips. These remedies will certainly liven up your lips.
i have got dark lips due to the smoking .. can lip gard helps it to regain its colour?
@abc:
Apply the above remedies to regain your lips’ original color. Also apply these remedies: http://naturalbeautytips.co/how-to-lighten-dark-lips-naturally/
I M DAILY USING GLYCERIN DAILY FOR MY LIPS SINCE TWO DAY CAN I USE IT DAILY? TO GET PINK LIPS CAN I MIX GLYCERIN WITH ANY ITEAM?
@Deepthi:
Yes, you can apply glycerin daily on your lips. You can mix lemon juice with glycerin and apply daily on your lips and face as well. For lightening your lips, use the lemon sugar lips scrub as suggested above.
is lemovate useful on lighting my upper lip?
@YNNM:
Lemonvate cream sholud not be used for skin or lips lightenng without taking advice from a dermatologist. This is a medacine cream and should be used after taking advice from physicion. This can harm your skin. First take advice from a dermatologist before using it for skin or lips lightening purpose.
Hi! So my problem is I used to bit my lips when I younger and now I have dark pigment in my lower lips. I have tried everything but nothing works so I was wondering if you have any advice you can give me on what I could try.. Thank you
@ Lili:
Try these remedies: http://naturalbeautytips.co/how-to-lighten-dark-lips-naturally/
Please help me for how to remove darkness on my lips…. Anybody says me are you doing smoke… M always says no……????
@ Priyanka:
Try the above remedies.
Also look in some more natural remedies here: http://naturalbeautytips.co/how-to-lighten-dark-lips-naturally/
Kya saare. Use karne h…. Tellme…plzzzzzzzz.. Or any one…???
@ Priyanka:
No, you don’t need to use all of them. Use only one or two of them at a time which ever you like. Sometimes, if you are not getting positive results then you can use the other ones and try to find out the ones that suit you the most.
Thank you! I will try the remedies.
THANKS FOR THE TIPS. I HAVE QUESTION. I HAD LIGHTER COLOURED LIPS WHEN I WAS A KID…BUT LATER ON IN MY TEEN AGE STARTED GETTIN DARK LIPS. MY MOM THINKS ITS BECAUSE I USED PETROLEUM JELLY(VASALINE) ON MY LIPS. DO U THINK ITS TRUE??
@ sana:
As per my experience, petroleum jelly does not cause darkening of lips. As you were borne with light colored lips, your lips color can be restored by applying the remedies given above.
Wish you good luck!
My lips have gotten dark since I was 11, and it’s not even dark they have turned black. My
Lips were naturally pink at birth and they’ve gotten darker only the middle of my lips is pink now and I’m not sure what to do ?? http://s280.photobucket.com/user/ewirtu/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsi5tlw44g.jpg.html
My lips have been turning darker for a few years now , I don’t knew what it is they use to be so pink. I do not smoke. I’ve been exfoliating regularly . I’m considering getting surgery when I get a little older if these remidies don’t work, the thing is my lip isn’t COMPLETELY dark, the middle is still cherry pinkish. I will add pictures . Please help me. http://s280.photobucket.com/user/ewirtu/library/
@Eleli:
You better consult a dermatologist before going for surgery…..
Naturally my lips are pink but the past few years they get started darker. I hate drinking coffee and smoking. I have also concerned with a doctor but she told me to use Vaseline because I have really dry lips and I really have a bad habit to lick my lips when I feel they are dry. But this Vaseline doesn’t suit on my lips now what I am supposed to do?
@Robbie:
Never lick you lips. That makes them dry. Ues remedies number 7 & 8.
My lips is very dark since my birth..i want it to be pink..can u suggest any remedies??
@riya:
If your lips are dark since birth, it’s very difficult to make them pink. However, by applying these remedies you can lighten your lips’ dark color and make them look smooth and supple.
I HAVE NATURALLY DARK LIPS ON MY UPPER LIP IS IT OKAY TO USE SUGER AND LEMON/LIME TO MAKE IT LIGHTER EVERY MORNING AND NIGHT ?
@alysia:
Yes, you can use sugar and freshly squeezed lemon/ lime juice every morning and night to lighten your dark lips. Mix these two ingredients to make a scrub and rub your lips with it.
thank u so much
my upper lips black i have try all rem. plz most best tips tell me now
@ sani:
(i) Exfoliation slough off the upper layers of dark, pigmented skin and uncover the newer, lighter skin underneath. Use a facial scrub 3-4 times a week to exfoliate the skin above your lip. You can use a store-bought product, or make your own scrub using sugar or salt. You can make an exfoliating scrub by mixing 1 cup of brown sugar with 3 tbsp. olive oil. Message the scrub onto the skin above your lip, rubbing in gentle circular motions for about a minute before rinsing it off with cool water. This will remove dead skin cells that could be clogging pores.
(ii) Alternatively, talk to your dermatologist about treatment options. For some, a cream or ointment containing tretinoin, kojic acid and azelaic acid can help to fade the dark pigmentation. Your dermatologist may also prescribe hydroquinone cream that effectively bleaches the skin so the dark shadow is less visible. You could consider getting a microdermabrasion treatment, which is usually performed by a dermatologist using a rotating brush with a crystal head that effectively removes the upper layers of dark skin.
I have very dark lips and I Wana get rid of dis embarrassing thing asap.. Plz guide me with genuine tips.
@ Anil:
Try to use the above remedies and also natural remedies given in this post: http://naturalbeautytips.co/how-to-lighten-dark-lips-naturally/
I am a dark guy but I come from a family with natural bright lower lip but mine is not that bright. Can I use these treatment
@ henry:
If you are born with dark lip color, please don’t expect dramatic brightening of your lower lip. However, if you use these remedies you can atleast make your lips soft, luscious and brighten by a few shades at least.
Can I mix lemonvate cream with this remedy
Can I mix lemonvate cream with the remedy. Because I do use it for my skin
Hi I wanted to know was that will it actually work and how long will it take for me because I got dark lips by licking my lips a lot I kinda tried the lemon already nothing seemed to change and I also have chapped lips so plz give me advice.