These Overnight Beauty Treatments Will Transform Your Skin, Hair and Lips While You Sleep

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It’s not always easy finding the time in the middle of your busy day to apply a face mask or hair treatment, but overnight sleep masks are a more convenient and effective solution due to the increased wear time which allows for maximum absorption. The best part is, all you have to do is apply, go to bed—then wake up looking and feeling refreshed!

Your body repairs itself while you sleep, which is why it’s crucial that you get a minimum of seven to eight hours of sleep per night. Sleep affects how we look and feel, and has a major impact on our quality of life. When sleep is cut short, your body isn’t able to accomplish everything it is supposed to do, which includes the repair of muscles and releasing of hormones that regulate growth and appetite.

The Best Products That Will Enhance Your Beauty Sleep

Sleep also contributes to a healthy immune system, and cell repair and renewal while we get some shut eye, which not only helps us function and perform better, but also affects the healing of wounds, production of collagen in skin, inflammation, skin hydration, and so much more. Being deprived of sleep can also result in a decrease of blood flow to the skin surrounding your face, causing your complexion to look dull, uneven, and tired.

There are a wide variety of overnight beauty treatments for skin, hair, and lips that are designed to work their magic while you sleep. Here, we’ve rounded up the best sleep masks and treatments that will give you glowing skin, healthier hair, and softer lips. Read on to discover and shop:

Algenist GENIUS Sleeping Collagen ($98)

This vegan collagen sleeping cream delivers essential nutrients and nurtures skin as you sleep with patented alguronic acid (naturally sourced and sustainably produced from algae), exclusive active vegan collagen (high-concentration vegan collagen that strengthens and conditions skin), and skin-mimicking ceramides and mary thistle, which support skin barrier function, increase hydration, and reduce the appearance of wrinkles.

belif Aqua Bomb Sleeping Mask ($38)

This jelly-pudding sleeping mask replenishes and revives dull, dry skin with intense hydration for a dewy, radiant glow. Filled with ultra-hydrating herbs like skin-soothing Scottish heather and lady's mantle, the pillow-proof formula is lightweight and absorbs quickly for fuss-free hydration. The mask blankets and wraps around the skin’s contours with a refreshing layer of hydration and also helps improve redness.

Biossance Squalane + Lactic Acid Resurfacing Serum ($65)

This gently powerful 10% vegan lactic acid serum boosts skin cell turnover for smoother, brighter, and more even-toned skin. The lactic acid serum is an alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) that effectively exfoliates skin, and also includes balancing clover and hydrating squalane that transforms dull skin overnight. Helps restore a healthy-looking complexion by minimizing the effects of daily stressors.

Bumble and bumble Bb. While You Sleep Overnight Damage Repair Masque ($53)

This overnight restorative mask helps reverse the appearance of damaged hair for silky, de-stressed strands by morning. Blended with antioxidant-packed camellia oil and super-nourishing evening primrose, the luxurious mask offers intense hair repair by targeting past tress trauma and safe-guarding against future damage. Advanced hair repair technology helps repair split ends and restore a healthy look and feel. 

Dermalogica Sound Sleep Cocoon Transformative Night Gel-Cream ($89)

This recovery treatment gel-cream transforms skin overnight so you can glow during the day. Motion-activated essential oils works all night to promote deep, restful sleep for healthier-looking skin by morning. Vitamin C reduces signs of skin fatigue and restores brightness, while tamarind seed extract creates a nourishing cocoon for softer, more hydrated skin. Sandalwood and French lavender soothe your skin and senses with aromatherapy to promote deep sleep.

DOCTOR BABOR Cleanformance Renewal Overnight Mask ($45)

Featuring over 95% naturally-derived ingredients, this rich cream mask supports the skin’s rejuvenation process and strengthens the skin barrier to plump and nourish skin during sleep. It includes pre- and probiotics, hyaluronic acid, red maple bark extract, natural apple pectin, shea butter, almond oil, macadamia nut oil, grape seed oil, argan oil, and vitamin E to balance skin and contribute to an even complexion. Cleanformance product boxes are comprised of 80% recycled paper from an FSC-approved sustainable forestry and do not include any plastic wrap. All of the plastic tubes are made from 30% recycled, and the glass jars and bottles are recyclable and show product content levels

Eight Saints Lip Trick ($22)

This super-hydrating lip mask provides extra healing to target delicate skin on the lips. Coconut oil traps moisture in skin, vitamin E boosts circulation and increases new skin cell generation, while organic beeswax delivers natural antibacterial agents. Features a yummy vanilla scent.

FarmHouse Fresh Three Milk Ageless Sleep Cream with Peptides ($49)

The brand’s number one-selling face cream is uniquely rich and intensely hydrating with a time-release delivery system of pure retinol. The slow-release system ensures that it delivers softness, firmness, and more without irritating skin. The thick texture of the cream is so thick that you’ll feel a noticeable protective barrier, which allows the retinol and peptides to work while you sleep. It also includes botanical milks and a proprietary blend of vitamins, extracts, and moisture-boosting ingredients that continue to enhance a more youthful appearance over time.

Fresh Rose Deep Hydration Sleeping Mask ($30-$56)

This two-step mask delivers continuous hydration overnight, drenching skin with moisture and locking it in for a supple, dewy look. After just one night of use, you’ll notice plumper, smoother skin. Start by replenishing moisture with a cooling gel essence powered by rosewater, Damask rose extract, and hyaluronic acid. Then lock it in with a silky water-cream mask that uses advanced time-release technology, which creates a tight-knit web on skin’s surface to gradually deliver moisturizing ingredients throughout the night.

Joyōme Intensive Overnight Repair ($93)

This powerful, ultra-hydrating serum delivers multiple anti-aging benefits. Designed to enhance the absorption of five key ingredients, skin feels firmer and smoother, lines and wrinkles appear visibly reduced, and age spots and redness are diminished. The patent-pending Microbiome Balancing Complex also replenishes skin’s moisture barrier to protect against environmental age accelerators. 

Kérastase Blond Absolu Overnight Recovery Treatment for Lightened Hair ($60)

This overnight leave-in serum with hyaluronic acid and edelweiss flower hydrates and recovers hair that has been damaged from lightening treatments. Whether highlighted or lightened, hair will feel hydrated and soft to prevent future breakage and split ends. Hyaluronic acid hydrates tresses while the pleasant orange blossom scent further enhances the experience.

LANEIGE Lip Sleeping Mask ($24)

This leave-on lip mask soothes and moisturizes with its softening balm texture that adheres to lips for quick absorption. Enriched with vitamin C and antioxidants, the Berry Mix Complex offers a sweet and fragrant blend of raspberry, strawberry, cranberry, and blueberry extracts. The exclusive Moisture Wrap technology features hyaluronic acid and minerals that form a protective layer over lips to lock in moisture and active ingredients. Apply a generous layer at bedtime to reduce flakiness and wake up with refreshed, supple, and soft lips. Available in Sweet Candy, Vanilla, Berry, Apple Lime, and Gummy Bear.

L’Occitane Immortelle Reset Overnight Reset Oil-In Serum ($68)

This unique serum helps fight visible signs of aging with Immortelle Essential Oil, while acmella oleracea extract provides smoothing properties and marjoram extract helps reawaken skin. It helps skin recover overnight, and over time, skin appears reset by morning with fewer visible fine lines and a more youthful, rested look.

Lumene Nordic-C Sleeping Cream ($25.99)

Restore radiance while you sleep. Revitalize dull-looking skin with the potent combination of seed extract and seed oil from antioxidant-rich Wild Arctic Cloudberry, vitamins A, B3, C and E; pure Arctic spring water, and hyaluronic acid. The brand’s new technology helps to boost radiance and promote the healthy appearance of skin for a softer, brighter-looking complexion by morning.

Moroccanoil Night Body Serum ($62)

This concentrated overnight body serum aligns with skin's natural overnight recovery process, delivering high-performing ingredients that work together to firm, smooth, and nurture skin, in addition to providing protection from environmental stressors. An advanced antioxidant-rich blend of argan and tsubaki oils helps to firm and nurture skin, while holy basil extract protects from environmental stress and vitamin C ester helps smooth and strengthen skin for a more radiant, youthful-looking appearance. Fragranced with the Moroccanoil signature scent.

NaturAll Club Ice Cream Treatment Deep Conditioner ($13.50)

Ice Cream™ Treatments are deep conditioners packed with innovative ingredients and an intensely moisturizing raw avocado base. The three “flavors” are each perfectly suited to treat specific hair concerns (Original Dry, Repairing, and Curl Defining). Boasting refreshing scents and creamy formulas, they are the ultimate treat for hair!

Omorovicsza Budapest Midnight Renewal Serum ($200)

This nourishing serum stimulates optimal nighttime skin repair with stress-protecting, repairing actives to transform skin overnight. An innovative form of retinal reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, stimulating collagen and boosting elasticity without irritation, as well as resurfacing and smoothing skin. Bio-actives reverse the damaging effects of sleep deprivation by enhancing cell renewal, whilst a nurturing combination of polyglutamic acid and oat lipid hydrate and repair the skins barrier. By morning, fatigue is diminished, and the nourished complexion is plump, smooth, and radiant with a youthful vitality.

Origins Drink Up Intensive Overnight Hydrating Mask ($35)

This ultra-moisturizing sleep mask infuses skin instantly with hydration and keeps it soft and smooth for up to 72 hours. Highlighted ingredients include avocado and Swiss glacier water, which is said to be among the world’s purest mineral-rich water, and works with hyaluronic acid to drench skin in moisture.

Paula’s Choice Super Hydrate Overnight Mask ($38)

This deeply hydrating overnight mask resets depleted skin by infusing it with nourishing ingredients including antioxidant-rich shea butter, glycerin, reishi mushroom, and cloudberry. Soothing plant extracts and a sensitivity-inhibiting peptide work with proven hydrating ingredients to calm factors in skin that trigger redness and irritation. The cream-gel mask provides long-lasting hydration and is also great for sensitive skin.

PerriconeMD Intensive Overnight Moisturizer ($185)

This velvety-rich, intensely moisturizing night cream delivers time-released nutrition throughout the night to retexturize skin, relax the appearance of expression lines and improve skin elasticity. It goes to work while you sleep, visibly firming, smoothing, and deeply hydrating skin. Essential Fx Acyl-Glutathione Intensive Overnight Moisturizer is an extremely moisturizing overnight treatment with time-released nutrition for improving skin elasticity throughout the night. It’s formulated with Acyl-Glutathione to reduce the look of wrinkles and a vitamin F blend to visibly restore suppleness.

Sara Happ The Dream Slip Overnight Lip Mask ($34)

This deeply replenishing lip treatment is infused with nourishing jojoba, macadamia, and sweet almond oils, along with hyaluronic acid and konjac root, to soothe and repair lips. It’s also infused with chamomile, honey, and vanilla for the ultimate relaxing sensorial experience. For best results, pair with one of Sara Happ’s lip scrubs.

Skin Authority Night Revitalizer ($28-$72)

This multi-action, nighttime formula helps smooth the appearance of fine lines and brightens an uneven or dull complexion, in addition to moisturizing skin. A natural AHA exfoliator derived from sugar cane helps reduce fine lines and brighten skin, moisturizers and hydrators soften and smooth the feeling of rough texture, and vitamins brighten a dull complexion.

VENN Concentrated Revitalizing Lifting Mask ($85)

This rich, leave-on treatment mask is supercharged with a concentrated series of free-radical fighting antioxidants and peptides, including VENN's patented water-solubilized Compound K to visibly lift, hydrate, and boost radiance in an instant—revealing a perfectly revitalized, 3D re-contoured complexion. This super-powered mask is formulated using the brand’s proprietary Solubilization, Hydration, and Binary-Layer Delivery Technologies to deliver both immediate and lasting benefits to skin. The actives are formulated to work closer to the skin's surface and help seal in all the benefits from the prior skincare steps.

Youth To The People Dream Eye Cream ($48)

This overnight eye cream formulated to visibly smooth the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, firm the look of skin, and actively hydrate while you sleep. Ingredients include goji stem cells to support skin renewal and visibly smooth fine lines and wrinkles'; vegan hyaluronic acid and ceramides to hydrate and plump the look of skin as you sleep; and vitamin C, which visibly firms the look skin around the eyes.

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Kamala Kirk is a University of Southern California graduate and has been an editor/writer for more than a decade. She has written for E! Online, Total Beauty, TravelAge West, Malibu Times Magazine, and many more. She resides in Los Angeles and is a proud pug mom. Follow her on Instagram: @kamalakirk