23 Best Lip Balms For Soft, Moisturized Lips
Smooches!
getty If you have dry or chapped lips, lip balm can be the ultimate savior. Lip balm moisturizes the lips and seals in hydration while protecting them from damaging elements outside like cold, dry air, and wind.
The best lip balm for your mouth can also be a gloss or sheen, or have a touch of color or a tasty sweet flavor, meaning there are all sorts of benefits you get. And in owning beauty products like this, your kissable lips are the reward.
1. Rebels Refinery Geometric Heart Lip Balm
This antioxidant-rich formula includes premiere oils from coconut and sweet almond to moisturize, nourish and protect lips with each sensorial application. With a heavenly Wildberry flavor, this natural lip balm will give all your friends lip balm envy.
(Ulta, $5.99)
2. Sky Organics Organic Lip Balms
This flavorful 6 pack of USDA Organic Lip Balms ensures you never have to be without nourished, hydrated lips. Formulated with ethically sourced beeswax, moisturizing coconut oil, nourishing vitamin E, and soothing Calendula extract, this emollient balm instantly moisturizes dry, chapped lips.
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3. B3 Balm Matte Lip Balm
The B3 Balm Matte Lip Balm contains anti-aging and chapped/sore-fighting ingredients, like organic cocoa butter and coconut oil, that keeps lips smooth and supple. The rich and deeply moisturizing texture never gets a gooey buildup, thanks to a paraben-and-petroleum-free formula.
(B3 Balm, $15)
4. Doll 10 HydraBalm Solid Serum Lipstick
The HydraBalm Solid Serum Lipstick is formulated with Grape Seed Oil, Sweet Almond Oil and Honey Extract for richly hydrating color with every swipe. Perfect for anyone with dry lips, the poured-serum technology intensely moisturizes and leaves you with a lush, glossy coat.
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5. Burt's Bees 100% Natural Moisturizing Lip Balm
Bursting with minty freshness, refresh and renew your lips with Burt's Bees Beeswax Moisturizing Lip Balm. Made with Beeswax, Vitamin E and a hint of peppermint oil, hydrate and nourish dry lips.
(Walmart, $9.57)
6. eos Natural & Organic Stick Lip Balm
It's 100 percent natural and 100 percent delicious, deeply hydrating and sealing in moisture. Variety pack includes one stick each of Strawberry Sorbet, Sweet Mint, Vanilla Bean and Pomegranate Raspberry.
(Target, $4.49)
7. Mario Badescu Lip Balm
An ultra-nourishing balm that melts into skin to replenish and renew dry lips. Softens, smooths, and nourishes dry lips.
(Nordstrom, $8)
8. Rosebud Three Lavish Layers Lip Balm
Three Lavish Layers of Lip Balm including full-sized Rosebud Salve, Strawberry Lip Balm and Minted Rose Lip Balm Tins is a perfect idea. Rosebud Perfume's three best selling lip balms plus a collectible tin for the vanity or desk top.
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9. Bite Beauty Agave+ Daytime Vegan Lip Balm
An eight-hour hydrating lip balm with a creamy, soft texture and an orange-vanilla scent. The brand-new formula features a creamy, smooth-gliding texture for comfortable wear and no waxy feel. With nourishing agave nectar, mongongo oil, and rich cocoa butter, this balm provides long-lasting hydration.
(Sephora, $14)
10. NARS Orgasm Afterglow Lip Balm
A hydrating lip balm with a subtle hint of color and a radiant finish in the universally-flattering Orgasm shade. This lip balm features the perfect blend of peachy-pink with golden shimmer for naturally-flushed lip looks.
(Sephora, $28)
11. Buxom Powerplump Lip Balm
A plumping and hydrating lip balm that blooms to your custom shade by reacting with the pH level of your lips. A unique reactor works with your individual pH level to transform to the most flattering custom shade.
(Sephora, $18)
12. It Cosmetics Je Ne Sais Quoi Hydrating Lip Balm Treatment
An innovative, lip-reviving, color-infused balm that provides hydration and a naturally flushed lip color.
(Sephora, $24)
13. 100% PURE Organic Mint Lip Balm
This certified USDA Organic lip balm cools and soothes lips with refreshing peppermint and eucalyptus oils. It's concentrated with vitamins and antioxidants to protect and nourish lips. Sunflower and coconut oils moisturize and soften, while vitamin E repairs.
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14. LANO Lemonaid Scrubba Balm
This gentle scrub and balm hybrid is made with a refreshing and soothing blend of citrus. Formulated with a combination of orange peel particles, lemon oil, and small sugar crystals, lemon oil works to break down dead skin while sugar crystals gently dissolve away, leaving behind a rich finish of lanolin balm to hydrate the lips.
(Ulta, $16.95)
15. Smith & Cult Fractal Pismatic Lip Sheen in Icy Violet
Glittery balm that applies sheer with a kaleidoscopic shine. Coconut oil hydrates and moonstone extract leaves lips glowing.
(Ulta, $22)
16. Mazz Hanna Rose Quartz Infusion CBD Lip Balm
Hydrate and smooth your lips while infusing it with love from this Rose Quartz Infused CBD lip balm.
(Mazzhanna, $15)
17. 100% PURE Lysine + Herbs Lip Balm
This soothing lip treatment is made with hydrating coconut and soothing lysine, an amino acid that alleviates burning, itching, and irritation associated with cold sores. Organic lemon extract, organic tea tree oil, echinacea, and peppermint completely soothe severely dry, cracked lips.
(100 Percent Pure, $8)
18. CTZN Cosmetics Globalm
This multi-purpose dewy non-sticky balm functions as lip balm, highlight and/or eye gloss. Clear is a colorless balm while Pearl contains added pigmented shimmer for a more sparkly highlight. This product is genderless, cruelty free, as well as free of talc, parabens, D5 and fragrance.
(CTZN Cosmetics, $19)
19. MAKE Marine Salve
A topical salve for the skin that soothes and calms chapped lips, dry skin, and chafing.
(Make, $20)
20. Clary Collection All-Purpose Balm
Clary Balm begins as a healing infusion of pure, cold-pressed, virgin Olive Oil with Calendula, Chamomile, Lavender, and Plantain. It is then strained and gently combined with Australian wildflower beeswax to form a nourishing salve and protective barrier for delicate or irritated skin.
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21. trèStiQue Plumping Lip Balm
Plumping Lip Balm is a cult favorite that help lips look fuller. Infused with Maxi Lip, Marine Collagen Microsphere and organic shea butter for intense moisture, it gives your pout a touch of color and a big dose of volume.
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22. The Sunday Standard Citrus Mint Hydrating Lip Butter
Say goodbye to your dry, cracked, flaking lips. This creamy coconut oil lip balm formula smooths over lips to deliver deep hydration and softness, with a hint of bergamot and peppermint.
(The Sunday Standard, $8)
23. Living Libations Pink Lady's Slipper Shimmer
Remember your rose-colored glasses as you beautify your lovely lips with wholesome Jojoba and Beeswax swirled with ovations of essential oils as glittering mica reflects the pale, iridescent wonders of the natural world.
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Aly Walansky is a NY-based lifestyles writer who focuses on health, wellness, and relationships. Her work appears in dozens of digital and print publications regularly. Visit her on Twitter or email her.
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