Darkness around the mouth and lips can be a significant beauty concern for both men and women. It's often caused by factors like hyperpigmentation, hormonal changes, waxing, shaving, or dryness. This darkened skin, especially noticeable during smiling or when using vibrant lip colors like red, can affect one's confidence.
Fortunately, natural and herbal home remedies offer effective solutions to treat this darkness. By consistently following these treatments, you can effectively reduce and eliminate the darkened skin around the mouth, restoring a natural and even tone effortlessly.
# Lemon juice
Lemon juice is one of the most efficient bleaching agent. Apply lemon juice around the mouth and lips, over the dark skin and gently rub it. Leave this for the entire night and wash in the morning. You will soon get excellent results in getting rid of the darkness around mouth.
# Lemon and honey
Apply a mixture of lemon and honey around the mouth to reduce the darkness around mouth and lips. This simple home remedy will make sure that the dark skin pigmentation is reduced and also the dry skin get moisturized. Honey will and extra nourishment around the skin near lips.
# Tomato juiceUse tomato juice over the dark skin and leave it for 30 minutes. Wash with tepid water. Tomato juice has lycopene and comes with amazing skin lightening properties. Due to this the darkness around mouth will be reduced effectively. You will have to do it every day in the evening for best results. Tomato juice will also lighten the sun tan.
# Rose water and glycerin
Other than the darkness around mouth there can be dryness around the lips too hence this mixture of rose water and glycerin will help a lot. To moisturize the dry skin near the mouth you have to mix rose water and glycerin in equal amount and then massage gently. Leave this for overnight like a pack and wash in the morning. Dryness will be gone!
# Aloe vera gelAloe vera gel is a good soothing agent. It will also remove the darkness due to over exposure of the sun and sun tanning. Apply freshly extracted aloe vera gel around the dark skin near the mouth and leave for the entire night. Try this daily for 2-3 weeks and you will see noticeable results in the removal of darkness around mouth and lips.