Lip balm for chapped lips

Laneige Lip Glowy Balm has the best record for chapped lips: 26 of 30 reviewers who weighed in said it helped, and all of its reviews come from Sephora. Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask, Fresh Sugar Advanced Therapy Lip Balm and Jack Black Moisture Therapy Lip Balm SPF 25 are close behind. More reviewers weighed in on Tatcha Kissu Lip Mask than on any other, and its record is lower at 28 of 40.

  • 274 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Dec 2020 to Sep 2026

Updated . How we count

Does it help chapped lips? What buyers said
  1. Laneige Lip Glowy Balm 30 said either way
  2. Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask 29 said either way
  3. Fresh Sugar Advanced Therapy Lip Balm 28 said either way
  4. Jack Black Moisture Therapy Lip Balm SPF 25 27 said either way
  5. Tatcha Kissu Lip Mask 40 said either way
  6. Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm 28 said either way
  7. Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Kiss Lip Butter 17 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for chapped lips. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.

Best record Laneige Lip Glowy Balm 26 of 30 say it helped their chapped lips Check price on Amazon
What stands out

Both Laneige products rank at the front, but all of their counted reviews are from Sephora.

The ranking, product by product

Praise and complaints are the points buyers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.

1

Laneige

Lip Glowy Balm

26/30 say it helped their chapped lips

All counted reviews are from Sephora. 30% mention a pleasant scent or taste, 20% say the hydration lasts and 13% like the tint. 13% say it made their lips drier.

What buyers praise

  • Pleasant scent or taste 30%
  • Hydration lasts 20%
  • Nice tint 13%
  • Not sticky 7%
  • Great overnight 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Irritates or burns 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 26 of 30
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Dry9 of 11
  • Combination8 of 8
  • Normal5 of 5
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light10 of 11
  • Light-medium to medium6 of 6

How often it comes up: about 1 in 28 of this product's 7,897 store reviews mention chapped lips.

2

Laneige

Lip Sleeping Mask

25/29 say it helped their chapped lips

37% mention a pleasant scent or taste and 17% call it great overnight. Complaints are small: 10% say it made their lips drier. All counted reviews are from Sephora.

What buyers praise

  • Pleasant scent or taste 37%
  • Great overnight 17%
  • Good value 7%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 25 of 29
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination11 of 12
  • Dry3 of 4
By age (reviewers who gave one)
  • Under 407 of 8
  • 40 and over4 of 4
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked8 of 9

How often it comes up: about 1 in 8 of this product's 22,399 store reviews mention chapped lips.

3

Fresh

Sugar Advanced Therapy Lip Balm

24/28 say it helped their chapped lips

24 of 28 at Sephora said it helped. Fresh's own site is less positive at 6 of 16, which we show but don't count. Price is the main complaint, at 23%.

What buyers praise

  • Hydration lasts 23%
  • Not sticky 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 23%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 24 of 28
  • Brand site 6 of 16 shown, not counted
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination9 of 12
  • Dry8 of 8
  • Normal5 of 5
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked7 of 8

How often it comes up: about 1 in 9 of this product's 4,573 store reviews mention chapped lips.

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Share of 30 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

4

Jack Black

Moisture Therapy Lip Balm SPF 25

23/27 say it helped their chapped lips

30% mention a pleasant scent or taste and 10% call it good value. 10% say it made their lips drier, and 7% mention irritation or burning. All counted reviews are from Sephora.

What buyers praise

  • Pleasant scent or taste 30%
  • Good value 10%
  • Hydration lasts 10%
  • Not sticky 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Scent or taste 7%
  • Irritates or burns 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 23 of 27
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination8 of 10
  • Normal7 of 7
  • Dry1 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light9 of 11
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 5

How often it comes up: about 1 in 7 of this product's 4,401 store reviews mention chapped lips.

5

Tatcha

Kissu Lip Mask

Best for overnight use

28/40 say it helped their chapped lips

Good for many but less reliable than the Laneige balms. 18% of its reviews say it doesn't help and 12% say it made lips drier, while 25% call it great overnight. It scores 7 of 10 at Ulta and 21 of 30 at Sephora.

What buyers praise

  • Great overnight 25%
  • Hydration lasts 10%
  • Good value 10%
  • Pleasant scent or taste 5%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 8%
  • Sticky or heavy 5%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 7 of 10
  • Sephora 21 of 30
  • Brand site 16 of 17 shown, not counted
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination10 of 15
  • Dry4 of 5
  • Oily2 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light8 of 10
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 9

How often it comes up: about 1 in 11 of this product's 2,061 store reviews mention chapped lips.

6

Summer Fridays

Lip Butter Balm

19/28 say it helped their chapped lips

Weakest record here, at 19 of 28. 30% of its reviews say it made their lips drier, though 40% like the scent or taste and 20% the tint. All counted reviews are from Sephora.

What buyers praise

  • Pleasant scent or taste 40%
  • Not sticky 20%
  • Nice tint 20%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 13%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 19 of 28
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Dry4 of 8
  • Normal3 of 4
  • Combination2 of 3
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked6 of 8

How often it comes up: about 1 in 51 of this product's 18,164 store reviews mention chapped lips.

7

Sol de Janeiro

Brazilian Kiss Lip Butter

12/17 say it helped their chapped lips

12 of 17 said it helped, a smaller group than for the others. Scent wins fans, with 40% mentioning a pleasant scent or taste. 13% say it made lips drier and 13% say it didn't help.

What buyers praise

  • Pleasant scent or taste 40%
  • Good value 17%
  • Hydration lasts 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 10%
  • Scent or taste 10%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 12 of 17
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Normal4 of 6
  • Combination5 of 5
  • Dry1 of 3
  • Oily2 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light8 of 9
  • Light-medium to medium2 of 6

How often it comes up: about 1 in 15 of this product's 1,761 store reviews mention chapped lips.

Where these numbers come from

The 7 products ranked here carry 61,256 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for chapped lips and read the newest matching reviews, up to 30 per product and store, posted between Dec 2020 and Sep 2026.

A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.

Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.

Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.

Skin type, skin tone and age splits use what reviewers chose on Sephora's review form (and age on Ulta's when given). We only show a split when enough reviewers fall on each side.

Amazon buttons appear only on products that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else gets no buy link.

An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts and link to the product pages, never the reviews themselves.

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. Laneige Lip Glowy Balm Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  2. Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  3. Fresh Sugar Advanced Therapy Lip Balm Ulta and Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  4. Jack Black Moisture Therapy Lip Balm SPF 25 Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  5. Tatcha Kissu Lip Mask Ulta and Sephora (40 reviews counted)
  6. Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  7. Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Kiss Lip Butter Sephora (30 reviews counted)

People asking about it on Reddit

  1. Best lip balm for dry chapped lips r/Sephora, Jan 2025, 178 comments
  2. [Discussion] What's your go-to lip balm for chapped lips? Need recommendations! r/MakeupAddiction, Sep 2023, 156 comments
  3. People with dry lips, what chapstick actually helps? r/beauty, Jul 2024, 132 comments

Questions buyers ask

Which lip balm helps chapped lips?

Laneige Lip Glowy Balm has the best record at 26 of 30, with Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask at 25 of 29 and Fresh Sugar Advanced Therapy Lip Balm at 24 of 28 close behind. These reviewers described chapped, cracked or very dry lips.

Is Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask good for chapped lips?

25 of 29 reviewers who weighed in said it helped. 17% of its reviews call it great overnight, and 10% say it made their lips drier.

Does Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm help chapped lips?

It has the weakest record here at 19 of 28. 30% of its reviews say it made lips drier, though 40% like the scent or taste.

Is Tatcha Kissu worth it for chapped lips?

Often, but less reliably than the Laneige balms. 28 of 40 reviewers who weighed in said it helped, while 18% of its reviews say it doesn't help and 8% call it too expensive.

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