diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 309d9a2..a2c6fac 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+### 2.2.4: 2021-06-23
+
+* Speed up styles tasks by adding a separate watch for prodstyles 
+
 ### 2.2.3: 2021-06-23
 
 * Confirmed fix for rule-empty-line-before from Air-light 7.7.3
diff --git a/gulp/config.js b/gulp/config.js
index 9d5ba32..9c7f798 100644
--- a/gulp/config.js
+++ b/gulp/config.js
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ module.exports = {
     gutenberg: themeDir + 'sass/base/gutenberg.scss',
     src: themeDir + 'sass/*.scss',
     watch: themeDir + 'sass/**/*.{sass,scss}',
+    watchprod: themeDir + 'css/dev/*.css',
     development: themeDir + 'css/dev/',
     production: themeDir + 'css/prod/',
     stylelint: {
diff --git a/gulp/tasks/watch.js b/gulp/tasks/watch.js
index 2a4d522..197a9e2 100644
--- a/gulp/tasks/watch.js
+++ b/gulp/tasks/watch.js
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ const {
 // Task
 function watchfiles() {
   bs.init(config.browsersync.src, config.browsersync.opts);
-  watch(config.styles.watch, series('devstyles', 'prodstyles', 'lintstyles')).on('error', handleError());
+  watch(config.styles.watch, series('devstyles', 'lintstyles')).on('error', handleError());
+  watch(config.styles.watchprod, series('prodstyles')).on('error', handleError());
   watch(config.php.watch, series('phpcs')).on('change', bs.reload);
   watch(config.js.watch).on('change', series('js'), bs.reload);
 };