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BEAUTY COUNTER December 15, 2015

Yes, Multipurpose Balms Can Even Make You Look Taller

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Bobbi Brown’s Extra Soothing Balm (US $62; AED/SAR 227) can be used on any part of your body where extra moisture is needed—lips, cuticles, and even heels. Packed with avocado and plant extracts for immediate hydration and a blend of geranium and rosemary oils to calm and sooth, this balm looks, feels, and smells incredible.

Ideal for small areas of dry or damaged skin, Shiffa’s Healing Balm (US $106; AED/SAR 389) helps moisturize and nourish the skin while reducing itching and inflammation.

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The ultimate remedy for scars, wounds, burns, and sun exposed skin, Erno Laszlo’s Phormula 3-9 Repair Balm (US $255; AED/SAR 936) works to strengthen the skin and reduce irritation. Formulated with rich botanical oils and advanced nourishing active ingredients, this balm creates a healing “Health Dome” around the skin to improve oxygenation and reverse dehydration.

The Egyptian Magic All-Purpose Skin Cream (US $39; AED/SAR 143) is a healing balm with “legendary powers” due to its unique mixture of all-natural ingredients derived from living plants and organisms. This multitasking cream can work wonders on your complexion, heal scars and bruises, relieve chapped skin, and even add shine to your hair. It’s also a backstage favorite that is used to create a dewy complexion.

Infused with the natural scent of tangerine, the Love Balm from Jurlique (US $10; AED/SAR 36) hydrates lips, cuticles, elbows, hands, and other dry or rough areas. Skin is left supple and nourished. Plus, it’s pocket-sized so that it can be used on the go.

The Aerin Rose Balm (US $58; AED/SAR 213) is carefully crafted with an extract made from over 350 rose petals. Not only does it smell incredible, the balm immediately soothes and deeply moisturizes.

This ultra-hydrating Menthol And Eucalyptus Lip and Body Balm from Rosebud Perfume Co (US $6; AED/SAR 22) is formulated as an all-purpose skin treatment to heal chapped or chaffed skin, razor burn, and other minor irritations. It’s enriched with natural menthol, eucalyptus, and camphor oils to deeply nourish and soothe the skin, and leaves behind a delicate fragrance.

Rich in the Buriti ‘Tree-of-Life” oil, which is renowned for its high levels of essential fatty acids, the Elemental Herbology Tree of Life Balm (US $58; AED/SAR 213) serves to sooth inflammation and redness.

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Multipurpose balms work to fix a multitude of beauty woes: chapped lips, sunburns, unruly brows, split ends, dry elbows, and cracked heels. And did we mention that when slicked down the front of your legs, a good balm can also give the illusion of longer, leaner pins? An all-purpose balm can be added to dryer formulas, like a matte lipstick, to create a smooth and creamy blush, or to the center of your eyelids (post shadow) for a lightly glossed or smudged eye.

With this wonder product’s many uses, no beauty bag should be without one; here are our picks of the best balms.

—Gracie Stewart

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