FYI: Do not use lip scrubs. They are not good for your lips and damage your lip barrier.
I thought it would help with exfoliating my lips as they continued to heal from excessive dryness. They just made them worse. I feel like I set back the healing process by months.
I looked into it more and found several articles stating that lip scrubs are not good. It's better to stick with a lip moisturizer and do not pick at your lips! I'll post the links when I reblog this.
The main ingredient in all of Lush’s lip scrubs is caster sugar. To this day I am still lost for words that such a simple and natural mix of ingredients can do such a great job at exfoliating. It really does make me question why other cosmetic companies ever actively chose to use (the now illegal) micro-plastics in their exfoliation products.Lush’s lip scrubs are ridiculously underrated, if…
Things I was grateful for in October 2023:
Trader Joe’s Halloween Joe Joe’s, meri meri Halloween party crackers (and having lots of fun sharing the jokes and stickers inside), a Kodak disposable camera, a party sized bag of mini candy, celebrating Halloween with my best friends, Halloween movies, Frostbeard Studios’ Spooky Stories and Horseman’s Hollow candles, Manic Panic semi-permanent hair dye in Psychedelic Sunset, Glossier Brow Flick and Boy Brow, LUSH Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe lip scrub, LUSH Toil and Trouble shower scrub (with jelly bats), watching The Mummy with my best friends, LUSH Mr. Pumpkin Face face mask, LUSH Punkin Pumpkin bath bomb, and Old Navy Halloween pajamas.