How to fix your cracked lips

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Cracked Lips, Dry Lips, Honey, Lip balm, Olive Oil

My niece and I have one thing in common, we always seem to have cracked lips.

We had heard two things and thought we would try them out.

Everyone always tells us to drink more water, that dehydration is a big part of why our lips are cracked. Okay got it. Drink more water. But what else can we do?

She heard that you can try putting honey on your lips and I had heard you can try putting olive oil. So we decided to give it a 5 day test. She would apply honey every day for five days and I would apply olive oil.

To be as fair as possible we came up with a schedule so that we both did it the same way and the same amount of times.

We would each apply our ingredient (her the honey me the olive oil) three times a day, no more, no less. I was going to apply mine at 8 am, noon and 8 pm. She was going to do hers around the same times.

We also both agreed with the water thing that we would each make sure that during the 5 day period we would each drink exactly 5 bottles of water per day. This way we would know our water intake was similar.

So this wasn’t exactly a scientific expedition but in the end, we still wanted to try and exact as we could.

So did either work?

The honey didn’t. Her cracked lips were worse. She attributes that to the fact that she was to tempted to lick the honey from her lips and the more she licks, the worse her cracked lips got.

I however wasn’t tempted to lick my lips with the olive oil and maybe that is why it worked. My cracked lips were completely gone at the end of the 5 days.

Later on my niece decided to try olive oil herself, applying it to her lips 3 times a day, and that combined with the extra water intake seemed to work for her as well.

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Avocado and Tomato Salad

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Avocado, Avocado and Tomato Salad, Bacon, Cherry tomato, Cilantro, Lime Juice, Olive Oil, Romaine Lettuce, Salad, Tomato, Vidalia onion

Avocado and Tomato Salad, oh how I love thee, let me count the ways.

• 4 cups avocados, diced small to medium
• 2 cups grape tomatoes or 2 cups cherry tomatoes
• 2 cups cucumbers, peeled and diced medium
• 1 cup red onion, diced small
• 4 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
• 2 teaspoons fresh garlic, minced
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• pinch of sea salt
• fresh black pepper
• Lettuce

Toss all ingredients in a bowl and serve top on a bed of lettuce.

I prefer to cut up romaine lettuce and mix it in with my salad instead of serving it on a bed of normal lettuce. But that’s just my personal preference. I’m partial to romaine that I dash with garlic salt – the kind that is the coarse ground with parsley. It’s absolutely insanely deliciously delightful that way. But that’s just me.

Some people have also suggested adding in some fresh basil, and pineapple. I’m not personally a fan of pineapple but I did decide to mention this since others may enjoy the variation.

One last note of change, while the original recipe calls for a red onion, I really don’t like red onions. So instead when in season I use a vidalia onion. They are so sweet and delicious. Really makes the salad all the better. If I can’t get a vidalia onion, I just leave the onion out all together of the salad.

Grape tomatoes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now here is my variation which I made last night and it was amazing! Okay, not exactly as healthy but still beyond delicious!

• 4 cups avocados, diced small to medium
• 2 cups cherry tomatoes
• 1 cups cucumbers, peeled and diced medium
• 4 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
• 2 teaspoons fresh garlic, minced
• 3 pieces of bacon – crisp
• pinch of sea salt
• fresh black pepper
• Romaine Lettuce
• Italian Dressing

So basically what I did was cut down slightly on the cucumbers, used Italian dressing instead of olive oil, remove the onions, and added in 3 pieces of very crisp bacon. It was so beyond delicious!