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Concentrated and multi-purpose, balms are great in the summer to smooth chapped lips, soothe sunburn and keep your skin hydrated. Whether you are heading to the cottage, or to explore foreign lands, don’t leave home without them.
Status Symbol
This fragrance-free vegan balm has black rose oil for antioxidant benefits, jojoba and castor oils for moisture and shea butter for dryness relief. It can be used before or after makeup, on bare skin or on top of makeup, any time during the day. The metallic compact is so beautiful to have and to hold.
Gucci Multipurpose Hydrating and Nourishing Balm, 9ml | $65
Couture-Care
The unisex travel-friendly packaging featuring the iconic Logomania design can be slipped into a pocket, but looks oh-so-posh when you whip it out. This balm, rich in madecassoside centela asiatica, a miracle healing plant, is an emulsion with oils, shea butter and different waxes that provides a “bandage effect” to protect skin’s moisture barrier.
Dior Le Baume Revitalizing Balm for Hands, Lips and Body, 50ml | $75
Classic Choice
This cult favourite not only moisturizes and soothes dry lips, but it also calms and heals irritation, soothes the sting of minor burns, helps heal cuts, tames mangled cuticles and hydrates ashy elbows and knees. The balm in the original tin format tends to melt and leak in warm weather, but luckily, it is also available in a tube.
Smith’s Rosebud Salve in Tube, 14.2 ml | $9.50
Intensive Care
This non-greasy formula has been specially formulated to comfort and repair dry or weakened skin instantly. It accelerates skin’s natural self-repair mechanisms and creates an enveloping film, making it possible to recreate an optimal environment for skin repair. It can be used morning and/or evening on the face, neck and décolleté, or for intense repair, used as a mask.
Guerlain Intense Repair Youth Oil-in-Balm, 80 ml | $285
Customize It
This “beauty baton” features a sugar scrub on one end and a multi-purpose balm on the other.
The gentle sugar scrub is packed with powerful marine botanicals like golden seaweed and marine fennel, while the balm provides an extra boost of hydration wherever you need it—face, lips, cuticles, split ends, elbows, cracked heels, etc. Both ends are removable so you can twist off and switch to different makeup or skincare formulas, including a waterless cleanser, primer and more.
Ready Set Jet Hydrate and Glow Beauty Baton, 8.5 ml | $44
COLOUR ME
Speaking of multi-purpose balms, there are also coloured formulas that let you easily add a touch of colour to your eyes, cheeks and lips.
Cheek & Lips
Enriched with red camellia oil and plant origin wax, this creamy, coloured, multiuse balm is smoothing and nourishing. When applied to the lips and cheekbones, it melts into the skin, visibly plumps and adds a touch of colour. Six dewy shades are available, and many customers are collecting them all.
Giorgio Armani Neo Nude Melting Colour Multi-Purpose Balm, 3.5 ml | $58
Eyes & Cheek
For colour on the go, this multi-purpose balm comes in two shades and delivers a gentle boost of colour for cheeks and eyes. The oil-in-powder formulation has a soft, bouncy and creamy consistency that feels smooth and ultra-comfortable on the skin. It blends effortlessly and leaves a natural matte finish.
N°1 de Chanel Lip and Cheek Balm, 6.5 g | $61
