With the cooler autumn days upon us, I know it won’t be long until I’m once again battling dry, chapped lips, and a quick smear of lip balm just won’t cut it. Fortunately, I’ve recently come across some incredible lip care that will make chapped lips a thing of the past. Here are four fantastic products to sooth and perfect your pout in an instant.

The Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask promises to boost hydration and firmness in just eight hours. It’s packed full of fruity goodness. A blend of hydrating pomegranate, grape and raspberry juices is combined with smoothing and conditioning coconut oil, shea and murumuru butters and Vitamin C to protect your lips from damaging environmental factors. There’s a range of colours and flavours to choose from including Gummy Bear, Sweet Candy, Berry and Mango. I opted for the clear gloss Vanilla as I wasn’t looking for any colour. A layer is applied to the lip area every night before bed, with a little going a long way. The mask looks like a lip balm, but melts down on contact with your lips providing a super glossy finish. It’s not oily or greasy, just the perfect consistency, so it can also be worn during the day should you wish.

The morning after I first used the Sleeping Lip Mask, I immediately noticed a difference in the softness and hydration of my lips. I loved how they felt! So nourished. The mask is incredibly easy to use and to incorporate into your nightly routine. I adore the fact that it’s working away will you’re asleep. The vanilla fragrance is subtle and smells just like birthday cake. The additional hydration and protection the mask offers lips will be particularly beneficial as winter creeps in. This will be the perfect prevention and antidote for dry, cracked lips. The Sleeping Lip Mask is an addictive and effective treat for your lips you’ll be hard pushed to give up once you use it. But your lip care regime doesn’t need to stop here. Your newly nourished pout can be further indulged with Gissou’s spoiling honey infused lip oil.

The Sleeping Lip Mask provides the perfect canvas for whatever you wish to put on your lips. Like everyone, I’m no stranger to lipsticks, glosses and balms, but lip oil is new to me. A lip oil, is a bit of a hybrid between a balm and a gloss. Similarly to lip balm, it offers hydration, but not the protective barrier of a balm, and is glossy in appearance, but far lighter and less sticky than a gloss, if that makes sense. Gissou’s key ingredient, is Mirsalehi Honey and Bee Garden Oils. This is explained by the fact Gisou is founded by a sixth-generation bee keeper who knows all about the moisturising and nourishing properties of honey. It also contains the more familiar jojoba oil and hyaluronic acid to further hydrate, protect and smooth your lips.  Strawberry Sorbet is the reddest of the gorgeous shades on offer and is packaged in a distinctively cool glass bottle. It’s easily applied using the wand included and a little lip oil goes a long way. I wear the oil alone, but it can be used as a hydrating base for whatever lip treatment you wish to apply.

The smoothing and hydrating properties of Gissou’s lip oil are addictive.  It’s the perfect consistency and isn’t tacky or sticky or too runny, and offers some very light, natural looking colour too. It has the slightest fruity scent, but isn’t flavoured. It’s everything you could wish for in a lip oil and compliments the hydrating benefits of the Sleeping Lip Mask. I’ve fallen in love with this oil which I’ll be using year-round to stave off any chapping or cracking in favour of rosé hued hydrated lips. However, as well as a great lip oil, everyone needs a good lip balm in their tool kit and I’ve just discovered a new favourite.

As someone who’s very prone to dry, chapped, uncomfortable lips, I’ve always invested in a good lip balm. For many years this has been La Mer’s The Lip Balm.

This is a lovely hydrating and soothing balm with a slight minty flavour. But it’s exceptionally pricey for what it is. Fortunately, as it’s a highly effective formula, it only needs to be applied once or twice a day, so it really does last a long time. For me, it’s well over a year. It’s definitely not one of those lip balms you have to reach for twenty times a day. However, in my search for a more reasonably priced but equally effective alternative, I’ve recently discovered, La Roche-Posay Barrier Repairing Balm.

When applied, La Roche-Posay Barrier Repairing Balm is as soothing and hydrating as La Mer’s balm. It’s quite thick and a little goes a long way. But it really glides onto your lips easily and isn’t at all sticky or tacky. It’s also flavourless. It’s a fantastic lip balm that you also don’t have to use every two minutes in order to quench your lips need for hydration. It’s just a supremely nourishing balm that provides all round lip care.

The combination of these lip treats, or even used on their own, are a fantastic way to protect your lips and stave off irritating and uncomfortable chapping and cracking. As the colder months approach, they’ll ensure you maintain lovely hydrated lips all year long. Where, o where, have you products been all my life?!