The 12 Best Scrubs for the Most Supple, Kissable Lips
By now we know that the importance of exfoliation doesn’t just come down to traditional skincare. We now take the scalp super seriously, and hey, who can forget about our lips? Let’s be real and say crusty, dry lips are never the vibe. When it comes to beauty products, your pout deserves extra attention—especially when the temperature outside starts to drop and chapped lips become more common. Dry, flaky skin and wintery deep lipsticks don't make a great combination.
Just like a facial or body scrub, lip scrubs slough off dead skin cells, restore hydration, and protect your skin against harsh weather conditions. Even better, they often do all this while priming your lips so lipstick or lip gloss can go on smoothly and stay put (no flaking here!).
While a DIY lip scrub with 100% natural ingredients is definitely doable, there are also plenty of ready-made exfoliating lip scrubs to leave you with smooth lips. Not sure which lip treatment is right for you? Keep reading to discover the 12 best lip scrubs for supple, super soft lips that kick dryness to the curb.
1. Best Sugar Lip Scrub:
FRESH Sugar Lip Polish Exfoliator
There's a reason this seemingly simple formula is one of the best-selling lip scrubs out there—sometimes simple is best. Made with brown sugar crystals, shea butter, jojoba oil, meadowfoam seed oil, and grapeseed oil, it gently buffs while keeping moisture locked and loaded. If you're just getting into lip scrubs or you’re looking for one to buy as a gift, this formula is a total slam dunk.
2. Best Hydrating Lip Scrub:
FENTY BEAUTY Pro Kiss'r Lip-Loving Scrubstick
If you're allergic to sugar or you'd prefer an alternative exfoliant, FENTY BEAUTY has you covered. This fuss-free formula uses apricot seed powder as its gentle scrub. Additionally, it gets a hydrating boost thanks to ingredients like squalane, coconut oil, castor seed oil, and sunflower oil. Kissable lips, coming right up!
3. Best Lip Primer Scrub:
ILIA Balmy Nights Lip Exfoliator
While we're at it, here's another lip exfoliator that swaps sugar crystals for a different kind of exfoliant. This clean formula from luxe beauty brand ILIA uses volcanic stone as its gentle exfoliant. This natural lip scrub is paired with shea butter and jojoba oil for a simple yet super effective lip treatment that perfectly primes and preps the lips for richly colored lipsticks.
4. Best Drugstore Lip Scrub:
BURT'S BEES Conditioning Lip Scrub
Looking for an easy, grab-and-go product? Here's an affordable, trusty lip scrub from BURT'S BEES. This formula uses honey crystals to buff away rough, dry skin, while beeswax conditions and hydrates the lips. Not only is it 100% natural, but both honey and beeswax have healing properties—an ideal combo for dry, cracked lips in need of some TLC.
5. Best Smelling Lip Scrub:
THREE SHIPS Piña Colada Sugar Lip Polish
“If you like piña coladas…” then you’ll love the tropical scent of this cruelty-free lip polish, which instantly transports you to happy hour on the beach. Avocado oil and shea butter combine to exfoliate and hydrate, leaving us with a softer pout. We love using it as a lip primer before applying matte lipstick to keep flaky lips away.
6. Best Lip Scrub for Easy Application:
LAURA GELLER Prep Stick Lip Scrub
No messy flakes or sticky fingers here! This lipstick-shaped scrub can be applied straight from its packaging. Ease aside, it’s formulated with an infusion of sugar and avocado oil for a hydrating finish. Our IPSY community has raved that the scrub is surprisingly sturdy, even being sugar-based.
7. Best Vegan Lip Scrub:
BALI BALM Pineapple Lip Scrub
In sleek packaging with hydrating coconut oil, sugarcane crystals, and fruit extracts, this plant-based formula lightly sloughs away dead skin cells, leaving us with polished puckers. Added bonus? We love that our lips are left with a delicious, tropical aroma.
8. Best Lip Scrub for Chapped Lips:
BASIC SKIN Lip Scrub
If our IPSY community says this is good, it must be true. With a strawberry scent and a formula that cleanses, conditions, and exfoliates, this shea butter and sunflower oil-packed product does it all—including keeping chapped lips at bay. When the temps start dipping, our members say there’s no better time to bust out this bad boy.
9. Best Multifaceted Lip Scrub:
REFY BEAUTY Lip Buff
A scrub that exfoliates, hydrates, and plumps? We’re obviously on board. We also love that this buzzy buy is easy to use and doesn’t even require any wiping. Its unique applicator buffs the lips and removes dead skin cells, while a weightless serum quickly absorbs into the lips, leaving them smooth and hydrated.
10. Best Cult-Favorite Lip Scrub:
SARA HAPP Lip Scrub
Sara Happ put lip care products on the map years ago, so it only makes sense her scrubs are to be trusted. Offered in five different flavors (our favorite is sparkling peach!), this is your standard sugar scrub. Designed to use daily, the product helps remove dry, flaky skin.
11. Best Luxury Lip Scrub:
LA MER The Lip Polish
If you’re itching to add LA MER to your arsenal and you just can’t make that $390 moisturizer purchase, the less pricey Lip Polish is a great place to start. Formulated with a proprietary Miracle Broth™ solution, this high-end product resurfaces and refines while nourishing and conditioning. And hey, it looks adorable on our vanity.
12. Best Lip Scrub With Unique Ingredients:
TATCHA The Kissu Lip Scrub
For starters, we’re huge fans of J-Beauty—so these Japanese-derived ingredients from TATCHA’s easy-to-apply tube speak to us on a deep level. Konjac gently refines and smoothes, while Japanese camellia oil helps seal in moisture. Additionally, peach seed oil helps remove flakiness for soft, kissable lips.