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Chapped lips? These 6 lip balms have got your back

Let’s stay hydrated out here kids

By Briar Clark

Beauty Crew Content Producer / June 11 2021

Lip balms are a necessity; we’re talking just as essential as a roll of loo paper or a functioning toothbrush.

In fact, nothing makes us hyperventilate more than having dry lips – nothing. Chapped lips should be a punishable offence as far as we’re concerned.

So please, we scratch your back (with these balm recs), and you scratch ours – and by scratch ours we do mean keep those plush face pillows of yours adequately moisturised 24/7.

Here are six of the best lip hydrating players in the game that’ll help you do just that.

VAPOUR BEAUTY Lux Organic Lip Conditioner

New to Sephora Australia, VAPOUR BEAUTY is clean and sustainable with formulas that boast plant-derived ingredients. Lemon balm is combined with helichrysum and calendula flowers and extracts of plum, apricot and fig in this lip nourishing blend. Simply swipe over lips for a soothing boost of moisture.

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FRESH Sugar Coconut Hydrating Lip Balm

This coconut-flavoured lip balm has a fan club that spans the globe with lip balm lovers the world over lauding the hydrating pick as a delight for personal use thanks to the tantalising scent – though their partners don’t have anything to complain about either.

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CAUDALIE Lip Conditioner

This antioxidant-rich and lip-conditioning formula is infused with grape polyphenols and apricot oil, softening, repairing and protecting lips from everyday perils like cold days and your lifelong lipstick addiction.

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Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour® Cream Intensive Lip Repair Balm

This emollient formula has a no-nonsense attitude when it comes to hydrating lips. We’re talking nourishing ingredients like humectants, shea butter, essential fatty acids and honey extracts all working together to heal your chapped lips. Apply generously and let your Eight Hour Cream do the rest.

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Clarins Hydra-Essentiel Moisture Repairing Lip Balm

Naturally moisturising blue lotus wax replenishes dry lips with a nourishing invigoration of lasting hydration, resulting in smooth, soft smackers and a plump pout to boot.

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La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Levres Lips Repairing Lip Balm

Got dry lips past the point of all return? Then it might be time to add this richly moisturising pick to your arsenal. A replenished and repaired super-soft smoocher is guaranteed.

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Main image credit: @torinashtun

Briar Clark

Briar is a Content Producer at BEAUTYcrew. She is a self-professed skin care obsessive, always on the hunt for the perfect mascara, and can't go past a plumping lipgloss.