20 Products to Winterize Your Skincare Routine

Give your skin a little overnight love with this mask. It contains retinol and caviar lime extract for gentle exfoliation and skin brightening, plus moisturizing ingredients like castor seed oil and shea butter. This way you can slough off any dead skin and moisturize your skin in your sleep, literally.

The Rich Cream is one of those cult-favorite products that manages to do it all. Powered by Augustinus Bader’s patented TFC8 technology, this moisturizer supports skin’s cellular renewal to help diminish concerns like fine lines, dark spots, acne, and more. It’s supercharged with powerful ingredients like argan oil, avocado oil, and evening primrose oil to help hydrate your skin and keep it that way.

ILIA’s lip mask is a great addition to the nighttime routine of anyone who has a lip balm for every coat and purse. It works as both an exfoliator and a moisturizer to help smooth chapped lips.

If facial oils are your preferred formula — or you’re looking for an intro oil that doesn’t have a complicated ingredient list — Indie Lee’s squalane oil is the way to go. It’s made of the singular ingredient — pure, olive-derived squalane oil — that absorbs quickly and boosts your skin’s ability to retain moisture. It’s suitable for all skin types and works from season to season.

Caire’s mask-and-serum duo is designed specifically for skin affected by hormone decline and menopause. They both contain hyaluronic acid molecules that penetrate deep into your skin to smooth, plump, and hydrate it from the inside out. Get this 15-day supply to try the combination out.

The cleansing step in our beauty routine can be drying, which we definitely don’t need in the winter. This cleansing balm from True Botanicals easily removes makeup and impurities — and is even safe to use around your eyes — without stripping away moisture. It contains lactic acid and azelaic acid to gently exfoliate your skin while encouraging moisture retention.

For something a little lighter (but still gentle, hydrating, and effective), we suggest Yon-Ka’s cleansing milk. It has a luxuriously soft feel and gently clears away impurities while soothing the skin, making it ideal if your skin is on the oilier side. 

There’s nothing less motivating than waking up with dark circles under your eyes, and it only gets worse in the winter. Fig.1’s Pro-Retinol Eye Cream delivers a shot of moisture to your skin morning and night. Packed with retinyl palmitate and collagen-boosting peptides, the formula works to help you look and feel more refreshed, while diminishing fine lines and puffiness around your eyes.

Who doesn’t love a warm soak in the dead of winter? maude’s soothing bath formula includes coconut milk powder to soften your skin and Dead Sea salts that detoxify your skin and infuse it with vitamins and minerals. It’s a perfect treat after a long day. 

Droplette’s clinically tested device transforms serums into a micro-mist that penetrates the skin’s surface 20 times deeper than other topical skincare products, meaning those powerful skincare ingredients can actually get to where they’ll be most effective. Droplette’s Collagen Hydrofiller set is a great jumping-off point and leaves skin feeling plump, hydrated, and rejuvenated.

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Your face and hands aren’t the only areas that suffer during the winter — all that dryness affects the rest of your body’s skin, too. Thistle Farms’ Body Butter glides on smoothly without ever feeling greasy, giving you all of the benefits of a rich moisturizer with none of the drawbacks.

For a luxurious post-shower experience, we recommend incorporating Prima’s fragrant body oil into your lineup. It’s deeply hydrating and contains ingredients like squalane, helichrysum, and jojoba seed oil meant to soothe and nourish dry, irritated skin. Mix a pump of it in with your go-to body lotion and massage it into your skin.

Winter seems to hit our hands overnight: One day you just wake up to dry, cracked knuckles and flaky skin. We love the mild, refreshing smell of this hand cream from Brandless, and at just $5, you can buy one for every room in the house.

This exfoliator is a combination of a mask and a face scrub. You smooth it onto your face, leave it for a couple of minutes, then rinse it off to reveal smoother and more even skin. It’s super gentle and unlike most physical exfoliators, it doesn’t contain any polluting microplastics. 

Scrub-type exfoliators can be too harsh for sensitive or mature skin, so if you fall into that camp, we recommend a chemical exfoliator for a gentler experience. This overnight mask contains lactic acid and glycolic acid that leave your skin bright and refreshed, but not dry. 

ILIA’s Balmy Tint lip balm combines rich color with hydrating ingredients like shea butter to simplify your lip care. No more applying lip balm, then lipstick, then more lip balm — one swipe of this and you’re set.

As we said, hands take a real beating in the winter, especially now that we’re more vigilant about hand washing and sanitizing. Prima’s hand sanitizer contains ultra-hydrating ceramides and quinoa extract to keep your hands from getting too dry while staying germ-free.

Year after year, we return to Aquaphor’s classic ointment when it comes to dry and damaged skin. It helps to quickly repair bleeding knuckles, cracked heels, chapped lips, dry elbows, and just about any other skin complaint you may have. It’s a use-everywhere cure-all we can’t live without.

If you find that your skin gets dry during the day no matter how much moisturizer you apply in the morning, consider carrying a hydrating mist like this one from Oak Essentials in your purse for a midday spritz. Its standout ingredients include aloe, glycerin, and rose water, all of which soothe and hydrate the skin.