Regardless of whether you’re a beauty aficionado or a skincare minimalist, a good lip balm is an essential. If you’re anything like us, you likely have an array of lip products stashed around your house, car, and strewn through various bags. Nowadays, we’re spoilt for choice, with today’s formulas coming in tinted, sheer, glossy, SPF, and lip-plumping varieties, which can sometimes make it more difficult to choose the product that’s right for you.
From sleep masks and oils to glosses and balms, we’ve tried them all. So, to help you navigate the ever-growing world of lip products, we’ve rounded up our favourites.
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Banish dry, cracked lips for good with these top 10 lip balms and treatments.
1. Breeze Balm Perfect Pout
A dry lip saviour, Breeze Balm was born over half a century ago in a New Zealand pharmacy. Fast forward 70 years and Breeze Balm has found its way into millennial-friendly packaging; with its star ingredient lanolin working to moisturise the lips and enhance hydration by locking in water.
2. Go-To Lips!
Soothing and moisturising, Go-To Lips! is perfect for use on chapped, dry lips, with lanolin, beeswax, and nourishing plant oils coming together to provide intense moisture and hydration.
3. Ultra Violette Sheen Screen SPF 50 Hydrating Lip Balm
Yes, you should be wearing sunscreen on your lips too. The skin on your lips is thin and sensitive to the sun, making protection from UVA and UVB rays essential. With SPF 50 protection and nourishing ingredients like shea butter, lanolin, and cacao butter, Ultra Violette Sheen Screen keeps your lips soft and healthy, while providing them with a subtle tint.
4. Grown Alchemist Lip Balm
This one smells so good, you’ll have to refrain from licking this vanilla and watermelon lip balm off your lips. Nourishing shea butter, jojoba oil, and beeswax improve lip texture, while rosehip and almond oils soothe and smooth. Not just a pretty scent, watermelon extract works to provide superior hydration and banish dry, chapped lips for good.
5. Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask
Wake up to flawless lips with the Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask. With a delicate berry scent, it gently exfoliates and removes dead skin cells overnight while infusing lips with berry extracts, antioxidants, and hyaluronic acid, ensuring soft lips by morning.
6. Lush Bubblegum Lip Scrub
Beautiful lips start with a good base; Lush Bubblegum Lip Scrub buffs and polishes your lips, using castor sugar and jojoba oil to remove dead skin cells. For best results, try this before applying your lip balm or as as a precursor to your makeup routine to ensure your lipstick glides on smoothly.
7. Fresh Beauty Sugar Tinted Lip Treatment Sunscreen SPF 15
The perfect daytime lip wear, Fresh Beauty Sugar Tinted Lip Treatment moisturises the lips, adds subtle colour, and provides protection from the sun.
8. Tatcha The Kissu Lip Mask
A leave-on lip treatment, Tatcha The Kissu Lip Mask uses squalane, Japanese peach, and camellia oil to treat dry, flaky lips, and restore them to a soft, hydrated state.
9. Kiehl’s Butterstick Lip Treatment SPF 30
Coconut oil and antioxidants like lemon balm work to hydrate and soothe lips, while SPF 30 provides daytime protection from the sun.
10. RAWKANVAS Luscious Conditioning Lip Treatment
This vegan-friendly deep conditioning treatment uses a blend of plant-based oils and butters like almond and jojoba oil and sweet almond butter, shea butter, macadamia butter, and cacao butter to soften and smooth dry lips, while providing protection from environmental aggressors.
Words by AR Staff
Feature image courtesy of Simon Emmett
