Sunscreen routine

Sunny days are starting to arrive, and so is the desire to bask in the sun. Opt for a 100% natural routine that will help you prepare your skin for summer and achieve a beautiful tan throughout the season. Be careful, however, with initial exposures, as they can have consequences for the skin and promote its aging if not managed well. Despite applying all these tips, do not neglect essential sun protection to limit the sun's harmful effects.

1 - Gently exfoliate your skin

Exfoliating care is essential for achieving a quality tan. This treatment stimulates cell renewal by shedding dead cells. It refines skin texture, gives a brighter complexion, and helps prevent ingrown hairs in epilated areas. All of this will help you achieve a much more even tan.

Exfoliate your face 1 to 2 times every two weeks and your body 1 to 2 times a week.

2 - Hydrate your skin

Hydrating your skin means providing it with water. Water is the main component of the skin. Maintain your skin's natural hydration by using hydrating lotions or serums. You can also directly use a floral water adapted to your skin type, spraying it over your entire face and neck to purify and tighten pores.

A daily moisturizing treatment is essential to keep skin supple. Dehydrated skin is prone to redness and tightness. Furthermore, water allows for better absorption of skincare products and participates in cell renewal.

Skin hydration also involves water intake primarily through diet, especially by prioritizing water-rich fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers, grapefruit, etc. And remember to hydrate throughout the day by drinking between 1L and 1.5L of water to meet your body's needs.

3 - Deeply nourish your skin

Nourishing your skin means providing it with lipids, i.e., fats. Lipids are essential components of skin composition. They form a protective barrier, thus helping to maintain skin hydration.

Vegetable oils, butters, and waxes are perfect for deeply nourishing your skin. Use them raw or incorporated into a recipe that can take different forms: milk, cream, balm, whipped cream, etc. Nourishing your skin is essential, especially after an exfoliation, as the skin becomes more supple and elastic, making it more resistant to sunburn.

Hydrating and nourishing your skin are two essential actions; they are complementary in providing sufficient quantities of water and lipids, which are constitutive elements of the skin.

4 - A suitable diet to boost vitamins

We have seen that diet plays an essential role in skin hydration by consuming foods primarily composed of water.

However, diet can also play a vital role in preparing the skin for the sun with the consumption of foods rich in vitamins and beta-carotenes, such as carrots, apricots, sweet potatoes, mangoes, pumpkins, etc.

Also, cranberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, pomegranates, cherries, apples, etc., are foods that help limit skin aging because they are rich in antioxidants that will fight against free radicals created by the sun's rays.

Thus, the skin will be gradually prepared for sun exposure and protected against premature aging due to repeated exposures.

5 - Smooth and hair-free skin

Repeated hair removal reduces the size of the hair bulb, slowing regrowth, preventing ingrown hairs, and thus helping to achieve a more even tan.

Tiger nut vegetable oil is a miracle oil against hair regrowth. Daily application of tiger nut oil before and after hair removal helps prevent and limit hair regrowth and its quantity.

6 - Anticipate tanning and create a sun-kissed complexion

Integrate carotenoids into your beauty routine to prepare your skin for tanning and anticipate it. They will provide an immediate healthy glow effect and a gradually tanned complexion that will blend perfectly with the tan brought by the sun's rays.

Carrot oily macerate is a real concentrate of beta-carotenes, omega 6, vitamins, and minerals. The edible roots of carrots are renowned for their regenerating properties that give a healthy glow, radiance to the skin, suppleness, and refines its texture.

7 - Protect yourself from UV rays, essential throughout the summer

Sun protection products are summer essentials. All skin types must protect themselves from the sun. However, certain phototypes, particularly 1, 2, and 3, which have relatively sun-sensitive skin, must be even more cautious by applying SPF 50 sun protection.

Sun protection does not prevent tanning; on the contrary, it protects the skin from the sun's harmful effects, which notably cause premature aging.

Karanja vegetable oil is exceptional due to its composition of Karanjin and Pongamol, two molecules known to protect the skin from the sun's harmful effects. You can apply this oil after progressive exposure to the sun's rays, as your skin is accustomed and has begun to secrete melanin (natural skin pigmentation, tanning), making it less vulnerable to strong exposures. However, be careful with sensitive and fair skin, which cannot do without strong sun protection.

With all this, you should have a peaceful summer and return with a dream tan
for the new school year!