16 skincare saviours to nourish dry lips, hands and feet during winter
As the temperatures continue to plummet, our skin continues to feel the effects of the cold weather with our lips, hands and feet feeling and looking drier than the Sahara desert. It's uncomfortable and sometimes very painful - especially if you suffer with skin conditions like eczema. With that in mind, many of us are looking for a way - and a good one - to help rejuvenate our skin with a tidal wave of moisture from lotions, potions, balms and creams.
Thankfully, there are an abundance of brands in the beauty and skincare industry whose products target exactly that and will leave your lips, hands and feet as smooth as a baby's bottom and protected from the snowy elements this winter is hitting us with.
From shea butter-infused balms to sesame seed creams, we've taken a look at some of the best - and most affordable - lip balms, hand and foot creams on the market to revive your skin and leave it glowing.
So without further ado, let's dive in...
Lip Balms
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Burt's Bees
Burt's Bees is always a firm favourite (Burt's Bees)This name is constantly on the list of 'best lip balms' purely because it's one of the best brands at keeping dry, cracked lips at bay and treating them when they're needing a little TLC.
Made with condition beeswax, coconut oil and vitamin E, it hydrates your lips, nourishes them and leaves them looking soft and smooth. Plus, with a variety of different flavours it leaves your lips tasting sweet as pie, such as the honey version, which infuses the balm with a sweet honey flavour.
It's also one our writers love for keeping their lips in "great condition".
Plus, if your lips need some extra care, the brand has a deep conditioning balm and scrub to work on your lips as you sleep.
Fenty Skin Lux Balm Ultra-Hydrating Cherry Lip Balm with Barbados Cherry +Vitamin E
With Barbados cherry extract and cherry oil, your dry and damaged lips will be revived with this sweet concoction (Fenty Beauty)This new lip balm from Rihanna's beauty brand is chocca with natural ingredients that aim to revive damaged lips by infusing them with hydration from the likes of Barbados Cherry extract, sweet cherry oil, shea butter, mango, cocoa, mango, avocado oil and more. All these ingredients work together to nourish your lips and leave them soft, plump, conditioned and smelling like cherries - which is always a winner.
Get it from Fenty Beauty here for £16
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A cult favourite since 2014, this vegan formula - which comes in a variety of tints and flavours, including colourless, is full of antioxidants and natural emollients, meaning it drenches your lips in moisture - and keeps them hydrated for hours - revives chapped lips and leaves them looking and feeling soft, which is exactly what you need in a lip balm.
The Castor Jelly and Synthetic Beeswax helps lock in moisture while the Shea Butter works wonders in reversing dryness - there's a reason it's dubbed a 'holy grail skin salve'
With over 10,000 reviews, it's a universally loved product and has a plethora of five star reviews to back it up. One beauty buff who loves the balm said: "Feels great. Smells great. Really hydrates my lips. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!"
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Eucerin Dry Skin Acute Lip Balm
This 'miracle' balm helps repair sore, dry lips (LookFantastic)If your lips are way past the powers of bog standard lip balms in terms of dryness, Eucerin's Acute Lip Balm has been hailed as a 'game changer' for those who suffer with dry, peeling lips during winter and leaves lips "plump and moisturised".
Described as a 'miracle lip balm' for helping cure cracked lips, the formula contains a blend of liquorice extract, that intensely moisturises, panethenol that soothes sore lips and primrose oil. An added bonus is the cream creates a protective barrier for your lips to ensure they are smooth and plump, replenished and well hydrated.
Get it from LookFantastic here for £6
Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm
Summer Fridays lip butter balm comes in a variety of flavours and colours (Cult Beauty)Okay, so there's a reason this lip butter balm is a consistently viral product on TikTok and sell outs a lot of the time. It soothes dry lips and hydrates them while finishing them off with a gloss and cute colour tint. While many people state the formula leaves lips "buttery and hydrated" for hours, others have warned that it's not for those who suffer with extremely dry, chapped lips, so keep that in mind.
With fans including Kim Kardashian and Jessica Alba, the balm is made up of seed butters and botanical extracts to help moisturise and condition your lips natural in the winter weather. Being completely vegan, the butter balm contains hydrating shea and murumuru butter and plant waxes that'll help fight off those painful lip cracks. The creamy texture 'cloaks' lips in a gorgeous shiny protective veil that helps soften the lip.
What's more is that the balm is beloved for its gorgeous smelling flavours from brown sugar to cherry and vanilla.
Weleda Skin Food Lip Balm
Just like its beloved skin food counterpart, the lip balm version is just as popular with people on social media raving about the tubed lip salve for its ability to 'heal' cracked lips in just one day. The Skin Food Lip Balm - whose sister product is the Hailey Bieber approved Skin Food, which is great for dry skin on hands, feet... everywhere - is enriched with natural oils and plant extracts, like sunflower, calendula, chamomile, violet and rosemary, to protect the lip from drying out giving it a good drench of nourishment to leave your lips soft and supple.
One shopper, who deemed the it the 'best balm for winter' said: "Having been through various lip balms including pricey high end ones. This one ticks all the boxes, it’s moisturising and not sticky and so affordable! No flavour just glides on nicely. My lips feel moisturised and smooth thorough out the day, which is essential during these cold upcoming winter months. Buy it you won’t regret it."
Get it from LookFantastic here for £6.20
Hand creams
Dry and itchy hands are both uncomfortable and unpleasant (Getty Images/iStockphoto)Nivea Intensive Hand Cream
You can't go wrong with a Nivea moisture cream that has, for over a century, proven itself as a worthy moisturising cream and, if you're new to the hand cream game, is a good place to start. Priced at £2.66 from Superdrug, it not only leaves your hands soft, supple and nourished but also a subtle sweet fragrance, thanks to the almond oil. Having been designed for dry skin, it's a godsend during the winter and with regular use, is said to protect your skin from the harsh elements of winter, keeping your skin smooth and luscious.
Get it from Superdrug for £2.66 here.
The Body Shop Hemp Hardworking Hand Protector cream
The Body Shop's Hemp hand cream is a best seller for a reason (The Body Shop)Great if your hands are ultra dry, this hand cream has been hailed on social media for the being the "best hand cream, ever" and "saving" sore and cracked hands. Enriched with 97% natural ingredients, the £16 formula - which is non greasy - is made with hemp seed oil, a product that has a very high level of hydration, and provides moisture for up to 96 hours. It is known to repair and protect dry, cracked hands - meaning it's both great for hydrating your hands during winter and for those who work with their hands on a daily basis.
Get from The Body Shop here for £16
L'Occitane Shea Butter Hand Cream
Another product that has been raved about on TIkTok, the L'Occitane Shea Butter Hand Cream has been softening hands for 30 years and includes 20% concentrated shea butter - which is a known moisturising miracle worker for dry skin. Keeping skin hydrated for up to eight hours. The vegan-friendly cream is easily absorbed (so no white cast is left over) and it's non-greasy, meaning you won't be left with slippery mitts after applying it.
With the additions of argan and coconut oil, it's a hydration hero and nourishes your hands to leave the soft and smooth - and not oily. It's also got a gorgeous fragrance that doesn't harm the skin being infused with jasmine and ylang-ylang. It's also beloved for its "insane" thick consistency that's as 'thick as butter' - there's a reason it was got best hand cream at last year's Bella Beauty Awards and has been selling every three seconds worldwide for over a decade.
Get it from L'Occitane here for £22
Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Concentrated Hand Cream
Neutrogena is beloved by dermatologists all over (Boots)This dermatologist recommended hand cream provides "instant" relief for dry and chapped skin thanks to its formula that's rich in glycerin - a humectant that hydrates and protects the skin's barrier. With a 4.6 rating on Boots, shoppers say their hands have been left "really soft" and some, who suffer from skin conditions like eczema, say it has been a "life saver" that "moisturises all day with one application. And it only costs £2.77 from Boots for a 50ml bottle.
Get it from Boots here for £2.77
Aveeno Daily Moisturising Hand Cream
While this cream doesn't have the luxurious feel of most of its competitors (in terms of thickness), this hand cream is made with naturally active Colloidal Oatmeal that keeps your mitts softs and hjydrated for 24 hours and protected from the wintery elements. With a quick absorbing time too, it won't leave a greasy layer once applied and can withstand hand washing without the need to apply again, leaving your hands feeling soft, smooth and healthy.
Get it from Amazon here for £3.15
Eucerin UreaRepair Plus 5% Urea Hand Cream
This cream is often hailed a 'life saver' for dry skin during the winter months (LookFantastic)This brand knows a thing or two about repairing dry, cracked and positively sad looking skin during the winter. With its lip repair counterpart being raved about by skincare lovers, its sister products - the hand cream as well as the Aquaphor Soothing Skin Balm - have been hailed as being the "best" and "incredible" for revitalising skin that's in need of relief from dryness and roughness.
One shopper explained: "I get very dry skin which often cracks, and I definitely see an improvement with this cream."
Another added: "This hand cream is a life saver during the winter months. It’s amazing for dry and irritated skin as it doesn’t sting and reduces redness. Super hydrating and no greasy feeling."
Get it from LookFantastic here for £6.75
Kiehl's Ultimate Strength Hand Salve
Kiehl's' products are great at injecting moisture into areas of the body that need a bit of tlc and this Ultimate Strength Hand Salve, £19.20, is a heavy duty moisturiser that is designed for overworked and dry hands that are regularly exposed to harsh conditions. With avocado oil, eucalyptus oil and sesame seed oil, the salve aims to soothe, hydrate and restore your skin's natural moisture and helps build a protective barrier against dryness - while leaving your hands smelling divine.
Get it from Boots here for £19.20
O'Keffe's Working Hands
I first tried O'Keefe's Working Hands a couple of years ago to help with dry hands and it's made a huge difference (Sam Jones)This hand cream is beloved by one of our own writers, Samuel Jones, and he said about this 'miracle' cream that works fast: "I first tried O'Keefe's Working Hands a couple of years ago and was so impressed with the results, and how quickly it started to ease the discomfort. The product says it works by instantly boosting moisture levels and creating a protective layer on the skin which makes a difference "within days". It's something I certainly found to be true last winter and it's made a big impact this year, my hands felt better after just a couple of days."
Get it from Amazon here for £6
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Foot cream
Beat dry feet this winter with these creamsCeraV e SA Renewing Foot Cream with Salicylic Acid for Extremely Dry Rough & Bumpy Skin
With Salicylic Acid and Ammonium Lactate, this cream is great for extremely dry heels and feet (Boots)Having dry heels and flaky feet is not only a knock to your confidence (especially if you're a woman who enjoys wearing strappy heels to fancy events during winter) but sometimes it can be painful. This rich, grease-less cream for dry feet has been made with three essential ceramides and salicylic acid to gently exfoliate the skin while giving it a good glug of much needed hydration. Dermatologist-approved, this product has been raved about on the likes of TikTok for rescuing cracked heels thanks to its active ingredients - that also includes ammonium lactate which is used to treat dry, scaly skin.
Get it from Boots here for £9.50.
Flexitol Heel Balm
If it's more your heels that are giving you grief, this cream has been medically proven to treat cracked skin on those pressure points of your feet, and, from first hand, I can confirm, it works wonders in leaving your feet - and heels - looking soft and smooth after just a few applications. Of course, you need to put in a bit of elbow grease by buffing away some dead skin, if you suffer with it, but once you do, you'll notice the difference.
Containing 25% Urea, it's designed to deeply penetrate the skin and intensely moisturise your skin.
Get it from Amazon here for £5
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