7 lip balms and creams to help you take care of your lips this winter

Skinfix

The brand’s lip repair balm—which is lightweight and hydrating with coconut and jojoba oil—gets a summery update with a new watermelon flavour.

Skinfix Lip Repair Balm, $5, shoppersdrugmart.ca.

Bite Beauty

This Canadian beauty brand relies on food-grade ingredients to keep your pout in tip-top shape. The mask is the perfect before-bed lip product that includes agave nectar and jojoba oil for a rich and nourishing treatment.

Bite Beauty Agave Lip Mask, $30, sephora.com.

SkinCeuticals

Known for its science-heavy skin care, SkinCeuticals also has an interest in keeping your lips young too. This treatment helps to improve environmental damage, smooth the surface, retain moisture and replenish lip tissue.

SkinCeuticals Antioxidant Lip Repair, $41, skinceuticals.ca.

Drunk Elephant

This lip balm from all-natural brand Drunk Elephant includes avocado, cranberry and marula oils in its ingredient list. Add peptides and algae and you’ve got a product that helps to plump and prevent premature signs of aging on the lips.

Drunk Elephant Lippie Balm, $22, sephora.com.

Lano

Though Australian native Kisten Carriol spend 15 years running her own PR agency, specializing in beauty, she couldn’t find a product to soothe her ultradry lips. Inspired by the sheep on her grandparents’ farm, with their lanolin-coated wool (the natural wax hydrates and protexts the sheep’s coat), Carriol created Lano, a lanolin-based line of lip, hand and body balms. The brand quickly became a cult favourite among beauty enthusiasts and celebrities. At long last, the Aussie brand is available in Canada at sephora.ca.

Lano Lanolips 101 Ointment, $23, sephora.ca.

La Roche-Posay

This balm soothes and protects chapped lips helping to heal and rebuild. This is thanks to Panthenol a nourishing ingredients and lipids.

Smith's Rosebud

This cult-favourite lip product is usually found in a tin, but the tube update maintains the classic formula—just in a new format. Rose oil and petrolatum are the key ingredients in this pick.