7 beauty must-haves to get you through the season from sun protection to gentle
cleansing.
With this summer a seasonal rearranging of our beauty routines is in order. Switch up your usuals with lighter textures, more fortified protectors, and soap that cares and cleanses—to accommodate the extra sweat and oil produced by our skin. Read through our selection below.
The Hardworking Refresher
Sweat, dirt, and heat isn’t the best for our pores. Intense heat causes excess sweat, and excess sweat can offset the skin’s natural pH into a more acidic range, which can cause our skin barrier to be damaged. Excess sweat can also lead into an overgrowth of yeast, which is the cause of fungal acne. Given that you’ve consulted with your dermatologist, try prebiotic-based skincare like L’Occitane Triphase Essence Mist which helps keep skin’s pH levels in check. It strengthens the skin barrier and keeps your skin’s good bacteria balanced. Pro tip: keep it in the fridge for a more refreshing experience.
The SPF That Keeps on Giving
Almost everything’s a pollutant these days, and these can disrupt our skin’s health. Clarins’ reformulated UV Plus Multi Protection Moisturizing Sunscreen claims to protect skin from atmospheric pollution (smog, smoke, carbon emissions), indoor (smoke, fumes, oil in the air when frying), pollen, blue light (from devices) and photo-pollution (a combination of pollution and UV rays). It has a ultra-lightweight but hydrating formula with no white cast, and now comes in two other tints aside from translucent—rose, for a pink tint, and lavender for counteracting any dullness.
Healthy, Radiant Skin
Japanese brand Hada Labo’s deeply hydrating range (especially the lotion!) has always been well-loved for providing simple lightweight skincare. Now, they’ve created a brightening version of their cleanser, lotion, and cream that delivers the same intense lightweight hydration but with an added bonus of brightening. Brightening has a ton of uses such as addressing discoloration, melasma, hyperpigmentation, acne scarring, which can all be triggered by sun exposure. Hada Labo’s Premium Whitening Range employs tranexamic acid, arbutin, and vitamin c to brighten and keep the skin healthy. It’s also fragrance, mineral, alcohol, colorant-free.
The Ultimate Hydrator
Despite the high humidity, high heat may also mean dehydration, inside out. Dehydrated skin is the most vulnerable and can allow infection, sensitivity, and photoaging to damage your skin deeply. Perricone MD Cold Plasma Plus Intensive Hydrating Complex is a light, whipped balm-textured, ultra-moisturizing hydrator that delivers moisture to your skin sans greasiness and fragrance, making it the ultimate summer moisturizer that easily integrates into any routine. This intense hydrator is powered by peptides, which are amino acids that make up the building blocks of your skin’s proteins, so as it deeply quenches it also improves the appearance of wrinkles and it could even strengthen your skin against breakouts.
Deep Cleanser That Cares
The simplest products sometimes work the best, like Cetaphil Gentle Cleansing Antibacterial Bar. It’s a soap for the most sensitive of skins that gently and deeply cleanses to remove contaminants as it also moisturizes—great for those who prefer a no-fuss, multi-use soap in the shower.
All-Around Clean
Chic, well-fragranced, and easily accessible bath and body products are not the easiest to find locally, but For Keeps Daily is it. They have everything from hand sanitizers, hand and body wash, and bar soaps in the most pleasant essential-oil based scents. If you don’t know where to start, try the cleanse and protect gift set that comes with the following: CLEANSE Hand and Body Wash (475ml), PROTECT Hand Sanitizer (475ml), CLEANSE Hand and Body Bar Soap (135g), CLEANSE + PROTECT Travel Set (60ml ea), plus freebies like a For Keeps journal, a waffle hand towel, a loofah, all packaged in a cute reusable jute tote.
Skincare Starter Pack
Cosmetics giant BYS launched an entire skincare collection that covers everything from double-cleansing to SPF. The whole line is perfect for the skincare newbie as it has all your bases covered—we love the Extra Hydrating Balancing Toner as it comes in a gentle, alcohol-free formula, which is hard to come by with most drugstore brands.