With cold weather, windy days, and indoor heating right around the corner, it’s time to make some adjustments to your beauty kit. Before you go on a shopping spree, find out which fall and winter skin care product is most important for the season.

Sure, you can go the multi-product route to treat dryness, and that works well some of the time. But there is one skin care product that has several uses and can stave off winter skin doldrums.

Skin balm is a versatile beauty product that goes way beyond treating dry skin. Yes, its rich emollient texture helps to soften skin and hold in moisture, making it the perfect addition to any fall and winter beauty routine. But balms also add sheen to sapped skin, soften lines and wrinkles, relieve redness and irritated skin conditions, and more.

Best Skin Balms and Ways to Use for Fall and Winter Skin Care

RMS Beauty Lip & Skin Balm

A must have for every beauty kit. This super smooth, subtly scented balm resuscitates dry or dreary skin. Of course, you can use as a standard moisturizer or spot treatment, but this baby does so much more. Use as a lip balm, apply to cheekbones and eye lids for instant glowy sheen, run a dab over hair to tame flyaways, treat dehydrated cuticles, and remove makeup. Another fun trick – mix a bit of balm with powder shadow or blush to create your own cream tints for eyes, cheeks or lips. The options are practically endless.

Tata Harper Redefining Body Balm

You already know skin balm hydrates, but did you know it can tighten and firm skin too? Red algae and natural butters support skin, minimize the appearance of stretch marks and cellulite, and promote elasticity.

Kahina Giving Beauty FEZ Hand and Body Balm

Good ol’ argan oil to the rescue in this warmly scented balm. Softens and soothes while diminishing redness.

Vapour Organic Beauty Lux Lip Conditioner

This is, technically, a lip balm. But the convenient chubby stick makes it easy to swipe your balm on the go. Possibly my favorite lip balm ever, I’ve been known to use on backs of hands, cheeks…whatever the day calls for while on the run.

Indie Lee Calendula Eye Balm

Ever deal with dry eyelids? Ugh! Such a tough area to treat. Use this ultra hydrating, deeply soothing balm at night and let it repair the delicate area while you sleep. You’ll be back to wearing powder shadow in no time.

Metta Skincare Face Balm

We’ve been talking the benefits of fruit oils for skin here lately. This fruity balm contains pomegranate and raspberry to soothe and protect. Sea buckthorn ups the glow factor.

When using balm to treat dryness, pat onto damp skin to help hold in moisture. Couple with a facial oil or daily moisturizer for extra hydration. Enlisting the help of this important beauty product now is the best fall and winter skin care move you can make.

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Dry, winter skin is no match for these five naturally wonderful beauty products that will keep you glowing.

After 15 sun-speckled years of giving directions to the Hollywood sign, I recently moved back to the northeast. This was not the move of a California girl who knows the best beauty products for sun protection like she knows her Sigalerts. In fact, I have a long and storied childhood steeped in ice and snow. Growing up, I scoffed at icy temperatures, baring my face to bone-chilling winds with nary a chapped cheek to be had.

Now, in the middle of a Boston winter, I can’t go outside without instantly looking like a dehydrated fish. The difference? I’m actually sheathed in the skin of an adult woman. Winter didn’t seem to bother my younger-me skin, leaving me to strut around in the cold like an un-moisturized Kardashian on camera. But now, the baby fat of my youth having fled to the cheeks of my nieces, means winter’s cold  winds have the upper hand.

But luckily, for all of us who haven’t seen the sun for several days because it’s hanging out in Florida playing Canasta, the beauty industry has offered up the tools to fight back against winter blues. Here are five of the best beauty products to brighten our skins—and our spirits.

1. Wild Rose Mineral Illuminating Powder by Korres ($18.00)
If you feel like your skin is about as reflective and glowing as that pile of muddy snow with the burrito wrapper frozen into it, this light illuminating powder from Korres is a great solution. With a lovely rose scent, it offers up a universally-flattering brightener for your skin tone, giving your skin a shimmery, natural glow. It’s also free of talc, parabens, sulfates, and synthetic fragrances.

2. Survivor by Spa Ritual ($12.00)
Sometimes, the best beauty products can be something that is just fun to wear—and one that is also doing good in the world. From SpaRitual comes Survivor, this sparkly pink nail polish shade inspired by the “strength and personal power women possess.” With 20 percent of profits going to Fran Drescher’s Cancer Schmancer health-advocacy program, this vegan product is free of harmful DBP, toluene, formaldehyde, and formaldehyde resin.

3. Organic Milk Bath by Osmia Organics ($50.00)
Sometimes, when you’re chilled to the bone, you just want to take advantage of the most awesomely modern conveniences of the modern world—accessible hot water. (The use of which, okay yes, you should be conscious of as a proper eco-person.) So when you’re soaking in a warm, volume-curated bath this winter, consider adding Organic Bath Milk to soothe and moisturize your skin. Made with organic buttermilk powder, organic oats, and baking soda mixed with organic and wild-harvested essential oils, your bath will turn into a warm, milky, skin-conditioning soup.

4. Biodynamic Facial Soufflé by Elemental Herbology ($76.00)
If you’re in the market for an intense moisturizer than doesn’t feel like your shellacking butter onto your chapped cheeks, consider this light moisturizer from Elemental Herbology. With a silky, lightly-floral application, this over-night mask is an excellent solution to dry and dehydrated skin. Using premium-grade botanicals ethically-harvested, it employs SLS-free surfactants that are 100 percent biodegradable.

5. Parsley and Sour Cream Mask by You (Market Price)
Not all of the best beauty products have to drain your bank account. Consider whipping up a homemade beauty solution right from your refrigerator. Beauty expert Narine Nikogosian offers up this skin-brightening solution in her tome, Return to Beauty: Old World Recipes for Great Radiant Skin. For dry skin, take one tablespoon of chopped parsley and one tablespoon of organic sour cream. Mix the ingredients together. Apply to your face for 20 minutes, rinsing with cold water.

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