The 5 Most Hydrating Lip Products Our Editors Can’t Stop Buying
by The Candidly Team
When the air is dry, and our lips remain shriveled prunes, there’s only so much that chugging lemon water and dousing our faces in expensive oils can do.
So instead, we turn to these 5, wildly effective, insanely moisturizing lip products. Some during the day, some at night, some layered on top of each other. Some layered and layered and layered.
1. By Terry Hyaluronic Hydra-Balm, $38
Under normal circumstances, we would NEVER put anything lipstick-adjacent on a list about hydrating lip products. We just wouldn’t.
Because lipsticks usually make our lips chapped and cracked, circumventing their entire purpose of making us look and feel good, which is why we hate most lipsticks.
But this is not any normal circumstance.
This “hydra-balm” from By Terry isn’t really a lipstick. Nor is it really a balm. Instead, it’s the glorious, hyaluronic acid-filled, hybrid balm-lip color of our dreams.
The colors are all gorgeous. It goes on sheer, so you have the most natural, subtle tint that looks like your lips, but better. And it hydrates as well as the thickest balms on this list.
2. Glossier Balm Dotcom, $12
There is something about the pillowy softness of Balm Dotcom that changes the way you will rate lip balms. There’s an abundance of different flavors and hues, including our favorite, Rose, which seems to be the most moisturizing and soothing.
It features lovely ingredients like castor seed oil and Cupuacu fruit extracts and rice bran and rosemary leaf extracts, so you know it’s doing some very exciting stuff to your lips.
Find out more about why we love it here.
3. Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask, $22
This strawberry-flavored ultra thick balm works overnight to restore your lips to a plumpness that you haven’t experienced since high school.
It’s enriched with vitamin C, antioxidants, and hyaluronic acid, but more importantly, it enrobes your lips with a protective, balmy barrier while you sleep that, come morning, makes them look and feel amazing.
Find out more about why we love it here.
4. Ilia Balmy Gloss Tinted Lip Oil, $26
The balmy-gloss-oil name is highly accurate—this hybrid lip product really does have the best of all worlds. Hydrating like a balm (with hyaluronic acid!), a light swipe of color like a gloss, and lightweight/not-sticky like an oil.
It’s clean, vegan, cruelty-free, gluten-free, yada. And the colors.
We want every single one. You will, too.
Find out more about why we love it here.
5. Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm, $22
This thick-but-never-sticky balm feels like a soft, comforting, cozy cushion on the lips that’s downright addictive to apply.
The clean, vegan formula is packed with shea butters and vegan waxes that seal in the hydration, so your lips won’t be chapped again within 5 minutes of application.
Find out more about why we love it here.
BONUS:
We couldn’t have a list of the most hydrating lip products and NOT include these 3 drugstore OG’s:
Nothing will save your chapped winter lips like THIS. Especially amazing layered over the above lip mask to seal in all the moisture.
THIS $7 pot will bring you back to high school, but it has stood the test of time for a reason. We stash them in all our bags, in our car, at the office. You get it.
Honestly, when it doubt, you can’t go wrong with THIS unbelievably healing classic.
At The Candidly, we try a lot of stuff so you don’t have to. We only recommend things we truly love, and that we think you’ll love, too. All products are chosen independently by our creative team, and all details reflect the price and availability of products at the time of publication. If you buy something we link to, The Candidly may earn a commission.
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