Your final Winter skincare checklist

Winter—romanticised in postcards and cozy Instagram posts—often paints a serene picture. But while the world may look magical under a blanket of snow, your skin might be sending distress signals. Cold winds, dry indoor heat, low humidity, and shorter days create a perfect storm for a compromised skin barrier.

It's time to moisturise, moisturise and moisturise... and don't stop moisturising!

Why Winter skin needs a different kind of care

Your skin is the body's largest organ, and it responds quite quickly to environmental changes.

When winter hits, your skin produces less sebum (that’s the good oil that keeps everything supple and balanced). Add to this, our skin naturally loses more moisture in colder months. Whether you have dry, oily, combination, or sensitive skin, winter’s harsh climate doesn’t discriminate. 

The goal is to maintain hydration, boost nourishment, and reduce irritation, especially if your skin is a fan of being sensitive.

In this essential winter skincare products guide, we explore the categories your skin needs most in the colder months: Face Cream, Face Serum Body Butter, Hand Care, and Lip Care.

We also look at our most sensitive skin friendly range - The Baby I Love You range which is hypoallergenic and fragrance-free. 

Your face faces it all

Your face braves the cold more than any other part of your body. In winter, humidity drops significantly and indoor heating extracts moisture from the air — and your skin — faster than at any other time of year. These conditions cause the skin to lose hydration more rapidly than it can replenish it.

A deeply hydrating day and night cream combo is essential to support the skin’s protective barrier.

We recommend our Ultra‑Rich Anti‑Ageing Night Cream & Day Cream Set as the optimal set here due to it catering for both am and pm routines but the Eternal Anti Ageing Super Face Cream with Black Lilac and Vitamin E works well here too due to it's concentration of Vitamin E. You can just shop the night cream separately if you feel you need the extra care. 

Add a serum — it’s your winter cheat code

When it comes to elevating your winter skincare routine, serums are the cheat code. Packed with concentrated active ingredients, serums absorb quickly and work deep within the skin to deliver intense hydration, antioxidant protection, and visible skin improvements — exactly what your complexion craves in cold weather.

We recommend the Symmetry Anti-Ageing Serum. It's lightweight, but deeply hydrating. It helps firm and brighten tired, weather-worn skin, and it layers beautifully under any moisturiser.

Your body needs TLC too

It’s not just your face that feels the chill. Cold air and hot showers strip moisture from your body too — especially legs, arms, and elbows.

Standard lotions often aren’t rich enough to keep skin soft for more than a few hours in winter. That’s where body butter comes in — thicker, richer, and designed to form a protective moisture seal that lasts, it is much more effective and protecting your skin. 

Our body butters are loaded with Shea butter and Coconut oil - the two hero ingredients when hydration is needed.

We recommend the Luxury No.1 Whipped Body Butter because of it's beautiful earthy and nutty scent. 

Hands take the hardest hit

Between handwashing, icy air, and drying soaps, winter is brutal on hands.

Luckily our hand cream bars are designed to nurture very dry hands and protect them. Rich in beeswax, cocoa butter and coconut oil, it's a must for anyone who feels the chill in their fingertips. 

Our founder's pick this Winter is the Hiyori Hand Cream Bar. It's scent is clean, earthy and woody, inspired by Japan. The infused Hinoki wood essential oil will calm all your senses. 

Don’t forget your lips

Unlike other parts of your skin, lips have no oil glands — which means they can’t protect themselves naturally. Combine that with cold winds, low humidity, and habitual lip licking, and you get dryness, cracking, and chapping.

Good lip care isn’t a luxury in winter — it’s a necessity.

Luckily, we have the very, very best lip balm in the entire world, so we've got you covered. 

Sensitive skin in Winter: Care for the brave

For those with sensitive skin, winter is a battleground. Redness, flare-ups, tightness and itching are all more common when the cold kicks in.

Our gentle “Baby I Love You” range is the perfect solution. While it was lovingly created for delicate baby skin, this hypoallergenic, fragrance-free collection is a godsend for anyone with sensitive, reactive or compromised skin — especially during winter. Rich in nourishing, skin-safe ingredients and designed to soothe without irritation, this range helps restore balance, comfort, and protection to even the most delicate skin types.

It has a hand cream bar, body butter and soap.

Your Winter Skin Deserves Extra Care

Winter doesn’t have to mean dry, dull, or irritated skin. With a little intention (and the right handmade skincare), your skin can stay soft, glowing, and beautifully cared for — even when the temperatures drop.

So treat your face. Butter your body. Warm up your hands.
And keep your skincare ritual consistent and beautifully natural.