Survival Guide: 5 Musty-Try Winter Skincare Brands

The icy wind blasts your face as soon as you step outside. The forced-air heat or clanging pipes compensate when you return - both wreaking havoc on your skin. From single-digit temperatures to the desert dryness of manmade heat, this is the time of year to pamper your face and body every chance you get. EDGE offers six go-to's to keep you moisturized in all the right places.

Dr. Hauschka: Skincare Holiday Gift Sets
What better gift than replenished and refreshed skin for the holidays and who better to trust than one of the leaders in organic skin care and beauty, Dr. Hauschka?

Choose from more than 35 mini face and body care products to customize your own special gift. Go with a fragrance theme like rose, lavender, or almond, or get creative and assemble your own combination of products to suit even the most fickle friend. Each individualized gift comes with a Dr. Hauschka cosmetic bag to house the treasures. Choices range from Sage Purifying Bath Essence to Lemon Lemongrass Vitalizing Body Milk and so much in between.

$25 minimum purchase to receive Dr. Hauschka Cosmetic Bag.

The Jojoba Company, Hydrating Day Cream
Moisture is what our skin craves this time of year, and The Jojoba Company delivers in spades with its Hydrating Day Cream. Jam-packed with moisturizers that combat winter villains, the cream's star, jojoba, gets in deep, backed by chamomile to calm, pomegranate to improve elasticity, Siberian ginseng to tighten and. firm and green tea to calm, The Jojoba Company's Hydrating Day Cream is a powerhouse without being greasy. Its clean, fresh sent will make you think perhaps the buds of spring are not too far off... but they are.

$32.95/1.7oz tube
$52.95/2.9oz glass bottle

Snowberry, New Radiance Face Serum
The winter can make all of our skin feel a bit dry, tired, and well, let's face it: old.

Cheerily packaged and powerfully crafted, Snowberry's New Radiance Face Serum feels light and clean, but packs a punch to soften those nasty little lines and smooth the rough edges with its proprietary Cu-Pep, a peptide that counters inflammation and "stimulates the skin's natural anti-oxidant system."

Safe for all skin types and far from thick or oily, this sweet little serum makes your skin feel a little bit closer to spring in the harshness of winter.

$36.00/1 fl. oz.

Belli Skincare: All Day Moisture Body Lotion and Sheer Comfort Lip Balm
Belli Skincare's founders created their product line with mothers-to-be in mind, delivering a range of skincare that is allergy tested, paraben-free, and without artificial dyes and fragrances.

Pure and bright with sharp citrus and cool chamomile, Belli Skincare's All Day Moisture Body Lotion goes on clean with no gummy, thick build up. However, don't let the lightness fool you; this clean cream does the trick, banishing winter dryness and radiator inducing itchiness all with a crisp, happy fragrance. Belli's Sheer Comfort Lip Balm is more than straightforward, containing only 100 percent ultra-purified lanolin, ridding your lips of cracks without unnecessary waxes, perfumes, or flavors.

All Day Moisture Body Lotion $17.00/6.5oz
Sheer Comfort Lip Balm $12.00/.3oz

Born, Pure Foaming Cleanser and The Source Collection
During the holidays, most of us have found the restorative power of the grape through its most noble product: wine. There's even more greatness to be found in this marvel of produce, and Born has captured it in their grapeseed oil family of products highlighting their special Muscadine oil.

Born's Pure Foaming Cleanser is light but thorough, sloughing off all of your post-holiday party make up without stripping your skin. Afterwards, its line of serums restore everything from regular holiday wear and tear (The Source for Skin); tight, sore post-tobogganing muscles (The Source for Muscles); and even baby-bound skin (The Source for Mothers).

Prices vary.