The 18 Best Lip Oils to Hydrate Dry Lips

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. Lip oil: the underutilized, oft-overlooked, hybrid product that blurs the lines between gloss, lipstick, and lip balm, harnessing the best qualities of each into one super-product. The list of benefits for lip oils is impressively long.  Unlike lip balms, lip oils can penetrate below surface level to hydrate, heal, and repair the skin over time. Because lip oils are thinner, they’re able to penetrate more readily into the deeper skin layers. This allows for “more sustained hydration benefits than products that are limited to sitting on the surface, like chapsticks and lip balms,” says board-certified dermatologist Rachel Maiman. “Chapsticks and lip balms are typically composed of waxes, petrolatum, shea butter, and/or lanolin, which protect and moisturize on application, but are limited by an effect that is short-lived.”  Lip oils are particularly great for those that struggle with extremely chapped lips. “One of the reasons people with chapped lips find themselves so often feeling the need to constantly reapply chapsticks and balms is because their effects are temporary,” explains Dr. Mainman. “Lip oils mitigate this need by delivering nourishing ingredients in a more

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