10 Best Hydrating Masks and Peels to Soothe Dry Skin

As winter approaches and the temperatures drop our skin naturally becomes a bit drier. Adding hydrating masks to your skincare routine can help your skin retain moisture and keep your skin looking its best during the cold winter months. An exfoliating mask or peel can help remove dead skin cells and grime so that your serums and moisturizers can work more efficiently. 

Now is a great time to start including ways to give your skin additional moisture. Here is our list of the top seven hydrating masks and peels to include in your skincare routine this winter (and beyond) that will give your skin a nourishing boost. 

1. Bliss In the Honey Hydrating Face Mask

When it comes to hydrating the face you can’t go wrong with Bliss In the Honey Face Mask. It is an intensely hydrating face mask made with moisturizing honey and lavender oil. This face mask is non-greasy and melts into your skin for an instant boost of hydration leaving behind your softest, smoothest skin ever. 

Acacia honey and bee propolis extracts heal and seal in moisture while promoting a radiant glow. Lavender oil soothes irritation and the senses while cocoa seed extract fights off free radicals.

In The Honey hydrating face mask is dermatologist tested, hypoallergenic, cruelty-free and paraben-free. Its gentle formula soothes and relieves dry irritated skin and eliminates dullness. To use simply smooth on a thick layer onto clean and dry skin. Leave on for 10 to 15 minutes before rinsing. Use as often as needed. Your skin will be left looking luminous, dewy and renewed. 

2. The Ordinary Peeling Solution

Women and men with oily skin, acne-prone, or acne-scarred skin will LOVE The Ordinary Peeling Solution.  With 30% AHA plus 2% BHA, this facial mask is serious skincare. Start with twice-a-week use, then once a week thereafter for only ten minutes to retain youthful, glowing fresh skin. 

This low-viscosity solution is intended to be used as a masque but do not leave it on for longer than 10 minutes. This product contains an alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) that may increase your skin’s sensitivity to the sun and particularly the possibility of sunburn. Use sunscreen, wear protective clothing, and limit sun exposure while using this product and for a week afterward. 

This home use mask provides serious clinical results. Use on clean, dry skin for up to ten minutes, rinse off with tepid water. The peeling occurs over the next few days leaving fresh-looking, glowing skin behind. This mask also helps with fine lines and wrinkles and hyperpigmentation too. You will be amazed at how great your skin can look!

Intrigued? Read our full product review of the Ordinary Peeling Solution here.

3. Bioderma Sensibio Sensitive Skin Mask

If you have sensitive skin this next moisturizing face mask is for you. Wind chapped, reddened, sensitive skin can benefit significantly from Bioderma Sensibio Sensitive Skin Mask. Sensibio Mask provides intense moisturization for sensitive skin. It does this by gently targeting visible redness and discomfort while providing natural moisturizing agents to soothe and soften skin. This is one of the best hydrating masks on the market for people with sensitive skin.

This is our favorite mask for hydration of sensitive skin because it is so gentle. Apply to the face after cleansing, leave on for ten minutes, then rinse to reveal soft, smooth skin. This thick, creamy formula feels even better after refrigeration for a few minutes. Cooling, soothing, moisturizing…what else do you need?

4. Mamonde Lip Sleeping Mask

Wake up with smooth, pillow-soft, kissable lips with Mamonde Lip Sleeping Mask. Mamonde Lip Sleeping Mask is like a hydrating face mask but made specifically for your lips. This lip mask uses muru muru butter to gently moisturize and replenish dry lips while restoring your lip’s natural plumpness while you sleep. 

Gently glide on a small amount to your lips before you go to bed. If you have very dry or chapped lips you can increase the amount that you would use. Antioxidant-rich plum blossom extract and muru muru butter create a glowing moisturized lip that locks in moisture. In the morning your lips will have a smooth satin finish. 

Mamonde studies the wisdom of nature in flowers and carefully extracts the active ingredients to nourish the beauty within you. The product is made in Seoul and is part of many Korean skin care routines all over the world. Use the power of flowers to give your lips the moisturizing boost they need. 

5. Fenty Beauty Pro Kiss’r Lip Scrub

When your lips dry and crack in this wintery weather, you don’t really feel like lingering under the mistletoe. Get mistletoe-ready with Fenty Beauty by Rhianna Pro Kiss’r Set. It’s a lip scrub in a twist-up stick, with apricot seed scrubbers to gently exfoliate and nurture your lips with every application. 

Made with rich shea and mango seed butters, the lip balm is super creamy yet lightweight and non-greasy, nurturing your lips and locking-in moisture. With a slight pink tint, your lips will be sexy soft and smooth in a very short time and stay that way. Use this lip set with your hydrating masks to have soft smooth skin everywhere this wintertime. This lip exfoliate set also makes a great gift for a friend or for yourself.

6. Honey and Milk Hand Care Spa Gloves

Dry cold air is hard on your hands and especially so for people whose profession demands frequent hand-washing. Get your hands back into silky soft shape with this Honey and Milk Hand Care spa gloves peeling exfoliating treatment. Deeply moisturize and repair your damaged, dry, cracked skin, soften cuticles, and remove dead skin and calluses in less than one hour. 

This nourishing mask contains honey and milk extract, collagen, shea butter, Vitamin E, and 10 plant extracts to soften hands naturally. This mask contains an anti-aging serum which helps reduce the appearance of age spots for more beautiful, youthful hands. This soothing and moisturizing hand mask deeply moisturizes and repairs your damaged, dry and cracked skin. It can even work to strengthen and repair your damaged nails, soften cuticles, remove dead skin and calluses. This moisturizing hand mask is great for men and women, especially men that work with their hands. 

7. Baby Foot – Foot Peel

Everyone is talking about foot peel masks or what are sometimes called exfoliating foot peels or baby foot peel. What’s the deal? These foot treatment masks leave your skin like new in about 10 days. Most use natural botanicals to erase calluses, cracks, and flaky skin on your feet. 

These foot hydrating masks come in many variations: apricot, coconut, papaya, and many other fruits and botanicals. Simply wear the booties for an hour or so, one on each foot, and then over the next week or so, your feet will shed the dry skin like a snake shedding its skin, leaving you with baby smooth soft feet. Enjoy a spa Experience at home; no scrubbing, no pain, just sit back, relax, and get flawless feet with Baby Foot. This is a perfect DIY solution for your feet. 

Our favorite and the original, Baby Foot is still one of the best foot peel masks available. Try one with your BFF or have a private spa day by yourself. Give your man the gift of sweet feet. “Best foot peel” “An absolute miracle” and many more fantastic reviews on this foot peel.  

8. Peter Thomas Roth Cucumber Gel Mask

If you have dry skin just around the eyes this Cucumber Gel Mask by Peter Thomas Roth is exactly what you need. We absolutely love Peter Thomas Roth’s entire line of skincare. His new lines have been blowing up for one simple reason: they work!

The Cucumber Gel Mask is an extreme hydrator that also provides depuffing because it is cool when applied. This moisturizing eye mask will help repair, deep, and moisturize the skin around your eyes leaving you absolutely glowing. 

This ultra-gentle gel helps soothe, hydrate and detox the look of skin with botanical extracts of Cucumber, Papaya, Chamomile, Pineapple, Sugar Maple, Sugarcane, Orange, Lemon, Bilberry and Aloe Vera. This hydrating eye mask is excellent for soothing the look of skin after sun exposure, peels, waxing, facials and extractions or just to relieve dry wintertime skin, too. Use his Hydra-Gel Eye patches for the best results. 

9. TonyMoly Hydrating Sheet Face Mask

Looking for a hydrating sheet mask? Look no further than TonyMoly’s I’m real Olive Radiance Sheet Mask. These sheet masks hydrate, soothe, and brighten your face’s appearance all with the mess-free convenience that only a sheet mask can provide. 

Simply remove the mask from the package and apply it to your face. Let it sit for 20 minutes and then take it off. Wash your face and pat dry to reveal your new super soft skin. We recommend trying a few of his masks but our favorite is the Aloe Vera moisturizing sheet mask. It’s soft and gentle formula works to give your skin an instant boost and noticeable results in just 20 minutes. 

10. AHAVA Natural Dead Sea Mud

If you have naturally dry skin which leaves your entire body dry during the winter months you’ll need to use an all-over body treatment to relieve your dry skin. AHAVA Natural Dead Sea Mud is best used when applied to the whole body. 

This hydrating body mud mask is harvested directly from the mineral-rich Dead Sea for its high cleansing properties. This body mask delivers 100% authentic, Dead Sea mud, the most mineral-rich mud on earth. It is composed of multiple layers of silt from the Judean mountains, infused with the mineral-rich water of the Dead Sea, Dead Sea mud provides detoxing and soothing relief. 

It is a potent cleanser. It is able to absorb dirt, oil, and toxins while removing excess dead skin cells. Natural Dead Sea Body Mud improves skin’s texture for a smooth, soft surface with restored radiance. It is also ideal for helping to relieve pain from stressed out or inflamed muscles. The power of nature’s original spa, in your home.

Now, you can savor a soothing spa experience right at home with this super moisturizing body mask. For many people, Dead Sea Mud miraculously improves skin tone and refines texture and provides relief to sore muscles and arthritic pain.

Spread this body mask all over your body and leave it on for 7 to 15 minutes before removing it. You can also heat the mud before applying it for additional therapeutic benefits. This body mask isn’t intended for facial use, but watch how quickly it can restore your skin’s glow to your body. 

Cure Your Dry Winter Skin With These Hydrating Masks and Peels

Hydrating masks and peels are an excellent way to give your skin a little TLC. Peel-off all that dead skin, excess oil, gunk, and grime sitting on the surface of your skin and reveal the fresh glowing skin within. This list includes our ten favorite hydrating masks and exfoliating peels that you can use to get spa-like results at home. Try them out and let us know which one is your new fav. 

If you are looking for a face mask that is 100% natural and won’t break the bank., try reading our article on DIY Face Masks that you can make at home using pantry items.