 the other day I did share a post outdoors post hiking video about skincare and what I do to take care of my skin. We just got back well not today but we just wrapped up last weekend a beautiful kayaking hiking adventure in between Nevada and Arizona and so this time of the year between spring and summer if you're spending a lot of time outdoors especially in the desert where the weather is very dry and very harsh on your skin so my skin is not having the best time this time it's actually my lips they are extremely dry and so I did share over on Instagram if anyone will be interested in seeing a natural mask that I'm going to make right here just to you know restore my skin and just hydrate my my lips so this is going to be natural very minimal ingredients it's a great way to take care of your lips in particular after you're being exposed to to the sun for a long amount of time so the first thing that I'm gonna do I am going to make a quick exfoliating solution not solution but anyway so um I have some sugar over here over here it's like a bit of sugar and then to it I'm going to add some coconut oil version coconut oil so with the coconut oil that is going to do a good job of the hydrating and then sugar because it's a little bit rough it's going to help exfoliate it's gonna mix the whole thing together it's easier to use my hands there we go probably have to add a little bit more coconut oil so that it's easy for me to apply hope our family here on trekking pals and friends on trekking pals don't think that this is going to become a skincare youtube channel it's not going to be the case it's just that with summer right now um your skin will be exposed to to the heat and it's very important to take care of your skin so that you can enjoy the outdoors with the least amount of damage okay so with that let's see so that's the that's what I made right here so this I can use for a couple of days and then I'm just gonna go ahead and apply it I have these little containers that I use for any face masks or lip masks like now that I make at home so I'm just gonna put it in the container like so and then put it in the fridge what does going to be exfoliates you probably can't see very well but I did share a little story over on instagram and you can see that my lips are really suffering even though I was applying chopstick the whole time it wasn't enough the sun was cooking so this is good just gonna leave it here for a little bit to help hydrate and then close this one I don't have much time so I'm trying to rush through this so anyway um so that's uh my hands are oily so that's good for now there it is and then the next one is going to be a mask that I'm going to to apply after I clean whatever I have on right now and then I can even spend the night wearing the same so for this one I've got my little container and then I'm gonna use some aloe vera I talked the other day about the importance of aloe vera to heal your skin and even help with the burn skin and so on so you know just aloe vera gel I've got two of them I've got this one that I got from Walgreens and then this one probably from fries or something I don't remember I bought plenty of them during the lockdown if you guys remember so I'm going to add some of the gel right here okay and then to that to the gel I'm gonna add coconut oil again version coconut oil it's also unrefined so this is olive oil that I can use for masks like this and even for cooking so the gel aloe vera gel and then coconut oil and then I'm going to add just a little bit of turmeric powder what turmeric does it helps brightens your skin so I think I need that for my lips at least so to to the mixture right here just a little bit of turmeric that should be enough and then I'm just gonna mix everything right here until it feels homogeneous to me I probably put more olive oil than aloe vera gel so I'm gonna add in more of the gel for watching I didn't expect anyone to be on this live because of this time of the day but if I don't do it right now I won't find the time so there it is so there is this is the mixture this is what it looks like obviously this color right here because the gel that I used is green but if I were to use a clear one this is clear see it's clear then the color of the mixture would have been white well it would have been white until I add turmeric obviously but it wouldn't look kind of yellowish you know I mean yeah so that looks pretty good for me you can see right here that's the mixture right so I'm just gonna this is obviously not enough time to exfoliate and such but let's just pretend this is done just gonna clean that it's nice and sweet it's got some sugar so there we go get that cleaned and then just from the mixture that I made I'm going to apply some of it just a little bit feels really good it really does so that is going to hydrate repair and brighten that I can leave on my lips and then before I go to sleep I will also apply and we are grooving so there we go so this is what I made to exfoliate coconut oil version coconut oil unrefined with sugar just to exfoliate your lips and then this is the dehydrating mask so that is aloe vera gel with turmeric and coconut oil as well there we go so I'm gonna store them in in the fridge and I can use them throughout this week and hopefully that's going to help repair the damage on my lips I hope that you guys find this to be useful if you do give this video a thumbs up consider subscribing my name's Habiba this is trekking pals and I will see you very soon on a new adventure bye