It’s chapped lips season, so make sure you take extra care to nourish and protect your lips from becoming dry and chapped.
A good lip balm is essential, as it creates a protective barrier between your lips and the frigid winter temperatures. Additionally, we want to keep our lips plump and full, due to the supplies of collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid in our lips depleting as we age, so we want to hold on to as much volume and definition as possible.
We've selected our highly recommended lip balms to help soothe, hydrate, and repair your lips, as well as maintaining moisture during the frosty winter months…
Goldfaden MD Lip Therapy, £32, available at: John Bell Croyden/SpaceNK
Lip care is an essential part of your skincare ritual that can’t be missed! Once you start using Goldfaden’s Lip Therapy Restoring Lip Treatment, the results will be too good to forget about! Made with hydration must-have hyaluronic acid, nourishing botanical oils and vitamin E, it deeply moisturises and restores, with 94% consumers agreeing their lips felt more hydrated after just one day of use. Goldfaden’s antioxidant-rich concentrated lip treatment revitalises your lips with an enriched blend of powerful moisturisers and a multi-active peptide complex.
Malin and Goetz Mojito Lip Balm, £12, available at: Space NK
Malin + Goetz Mojito Lip Balm is intensely hydrating that soothes dry and cracked lips, helping to keep them soft and moisturised. Their hydrating lip gel helps replenish dry lips with a blend of fatty acids that offer a layer of nourishing protection from day to night. Absorbs quickly and does not transfer or require constant reapplication. Infused with their signature mojito scent.
Verso Lip Serum, £55, available at: Cult Beauty
Effectively target ageing around the delicate lip area with the Verso Lip Serum. Formulated with Verso’s unique Retinol 8 complex, this lightweight serum softens, supports, and strengthens the skin’s natural defences against ageing environmental damage. Enriched with super-hydrator Hyaluronic acid, the lip area is visibly plumped, hydrated, and firmed.
e.l.f. Ride or Die Lip Balm, £5, available at Boots
Infused with Jojoba Oil and Vegan Collagen e.l.f. Ride or Die repairs dry lips while adding a sheer wash of colour. An intense lip balm treatment that gives you the ultimate hydrated and plumped lips. This tinted balm is your lips’ 100% vegan and cruelty-free, ride or die bestie!
ILIA Lip Wrap Reviving Balm, £25, available at Sephora
An everyday, barrier-building balm that hydrates lips instantly and over time with active levels of clean skincare ingredients. Lip Wrap Reviving Balm quenches lips on first glide, wrapping them in a hug of hydration that lasts.
Lips instantly look smoother and plumper with a soft sheen. With every wear, the skincare powered formula replenishes your skin's moisture barrier, helping lips stay hydrated over time.