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The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments For Luscious Lips

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The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments For Luscious Lips

Did you know that the delicate skin on our lips has only six layers, whereas the rest of the skin on our face has up to sixteen layers? Nonetheless, we often overlook lip care as an essential part of our skincare routine. Be assured that looking after your lips doesn’t have to be an arduous task. Just browse our edit of the twelve best lip balms and treatments for maintaining luscious lips all summer long.

The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments:

The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments: LANEIGE Lip Sleeping Mask
Best Overnight Lip Mask

01. LANEIGE Lip Sleeping Mask, £19

Wake up to baby-soft lips with the Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask. This overnight lip mask acts like a nourishing lip balm to maximise hydration while gently sloughing away dead skin cells on the surface of the lips. It nourishes and regenerates chapped lips overnight with a blend of vitamin C and powerful antioxidants.

 

Florence by Mills Hit Snooze Lip Mask
Best Hydrating Jelly Formula RRP £14

02. Florence by Mills Hit Snooze Lip Mask, £12.80

The Florence by Mills Hit Snooze Lip Mask works overnight to improve the appearance and feel of dry lips. The formula, which has a distinct jelly texture, also works to retain moisture. Squalane and apricot kernel oil provide a hydrating veil that makes lips appear soft and supple.

 

Hello Sunday The One For Your Lips SPF50
Best Lip Balm For Sun Protection

03. Hello Sunday The One For Your Lips SPF50, £5

A fragrance-free, clear SPF balm enriched with shea butter and hyaluronic acid to protect and hydrate your lips throughout the day. The light formula contains vitamin E, which helps to strengthen the skin barrier and improve water retention, as well as shea butter and hyaluronic acid, which protect and hydrate the lips.

The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments: Eve Lom Kiss Mix Lip Treatment
Best Multitasking Lip Treatment RRP £18

04. Eve Lom Kiss Mix Lip Treatment, £14.40

If you’ve never tried this, where have you been? This cult product will earn a special place in your heart due to its multitasking and pout-perfecting qualities. It’s especially good as a ‘primer’ applied under lipstick. Infused with a luxurious blend of active extracts, including cooling menthol and moisturising beeswax, to protect lips from dryness and chapping.

 

The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments: SunSense Lip Balm SPF50+
Best Lip Balm For Sun Protection + Mature Skin

05. SunSense Lip Balm SPF50+, £5.95

Whatever the weather, keep your lips protected and hydrated with the SunSense lip balm. The easy glide-on formula offers high SPF50+ UVA and UVB protection and 4 hours of water resistance. We highly recommend SunSense lip balm for mature skin and skin types vulnerable to sun damage.

 

The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments: Weleda Skin Food Lip Balm
Best Lip Balm For Dry & Chapped Lips RRP £6.95

06. Weleda Skin Food Lip Balm, £5.56

Pamper your pout with the Weleda Skin Food Lip Balm, a replenishing lip balm that offers instant relief to dry, cracked, and chapped lips. With its rich texture, this nourishing balm leaves lips feeling soft, smooth and kissable. The formula contains natural plant extracts with a soothing botanical blend of Viola, Chamomile, and Calendula.

 

The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments: Tatcha The Kissu Lip Mask
Best Lip Treatment For Fine Lines & Wrinkles

07. Tatcha The Kissu Lip Mask, £25

Restorative treatment for the lips. This elegant-looking lip treatment offers style and substance. It’s a luxurious leave-on jelly treatment with squalane and Japanese peach that helps replenish lips with moisture and plumps the look of fine lines and wrinkles. We only wish it came in a tube for easy application on the go.

 

The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments: Le Labo Lip Balm
Best Everyday Lip Balm

08. Le Labo Lip Balm, £12

This everyday lip balm from Le Labo contains a concoction of nourishing nut butters and plant oils to help soothe the dryest of lips. Enriched with shea butter, olive oil, and jojoba seed, this non-sticky, gloss-free formula delivers a light veil of nourishment to maintain a soft and perfectly hydrated pout throughout the day.

 

The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments: La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume Lips
Best Lip Treatment For Highly Sensitive Skin

09. La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume Lips, £7

Highly recommended by dermatologists, this lip balm is like a moisture magnet for parched, sore and chapped lips. It’s all down to the clever lipids and pro-vitamin B5. It not only forms a protective shield over delicate skin, but it also heals painful cracks quickly.

 

The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments: Jennifer Young Defiant Beauty Lip Balm
Best Lip Balm For Post-Treatment Skin

10. Jennifer Young Defiant Beauty Lip Balm, £5

Jennifer Young is a recognised expert in specialist skincare for those being treated for, living with or recovering from cancer. The Defiant Beauty Lip Balm hydrates and heals dry, sore, or chapped lips. The soothing formula helps to reduce the severity of dry lips and protects against the side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

 

The 12 Best Lip Balms & Treatments: Drunk Elephant Lippe Balm
Best Everyday Lip Balm Stick

11. Drunk Elephant Lippe Balm, £15

The chubbier stick not only makes this lip balm quick and easy to apply, but it’s also packed with vitamins A, D, and E, as well as omega-3 fatty acids, to give your lips a nourishing and volumizing boost of hydration. Lippe Balm is an everyday essential for preventing dryness or chapping on the go.

 

Biossance Squalane and Rose Vegan Lip Balm
Best Plumping Lip Balm

12. Biossance Squalane and Rose Vegan Lip Balm, £12

The Biossance Squalane and Rose Vegan Lip Balm is an intensely moisturising formula that helps minimise the look of fine lines and wrinkles. Rich and luxurious, the balm utilises a blend of ceramides, hyaluronic acid and sugarcane-derived squalane to hydrate the lips, while wakame algae encourage a plumper-looking finish.




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