Summertime can be challenging for your complexion and body. You need sun protection. Weather can change back and forth, bouncing between a need for lightness and richer pampering. Perspiration, sand, dirt from gardening can make you grimy. Drunk Elephant to the rescue! I was happy to be hosted to experience it.
Scrub a dub dub. You take more showers in the summer because, let’s face it: you get stinky! Kamilii Cream Body Cleaner is for everyone, even if you think you don’t like cream cleansers! It’s got a thinner lotion consistency, with a pearlized look. And oh, does it have a heavenly natural almond scent! It’s perfect for shaving. It has restorative amino acids. It has a pH of 5.0.
Have you shied away from exfoliating cleansers because you’re only familiar with the nut shell scrubs of the 1980s that created micro-tears and made everything worse? Here’s a whole new ballgame: Scrubbi Bamboes Body Cleanser has bamboo beads, which are ultra-gentle. They’re in a jelly that foams up. This is for mild exfoliation, perhaps for peeling skin or more sensitive skin. It has an attractive natural vanilla scent and 5.3 pH.
Sugared Koffie Almond Milk Scrub is an intense, dense scrub that will take care of beach sand, scaly skin, muddy areas. It has more of a natural, not candied scent. Almond milk is rich, make sure you take time to rinse.
If you’re wearing any kind of waterproof or glitter makeup, you need a serious makeup remover. Slaai Makeup-Melting Butter Cleanser applies with a little spoon to go from an oil to a milky product. You won’t get chunks stuck in your eyes or brows! You can double-cleanse with a gel cleanser afterwards if you like.
Some folks were taught at a young age to moisturize after swimming and bathing and others need to learn right now. You want to seal moisture into your skin and replenish what may have been stripped with waters and chemicals. Drunk Elephant has a number of options. If you need a deeper exfoliation from neck to toes, try out T.LC. Glycolic Body Lotion. In a thinner consistency, it gives you that effective dose of actives that’s found in advanced skincare. It has a 10% AHA content, but also, a gentle 3.5 pH.
How about when you need a very effective hand cream, without putting industrial greases on? Therabu Buttered Reparative Hand Cream works on two levels: It’s anti-aging and moisturizing for 24 hours! Not only does it have marula and shea butters, but nourishing oils like avocado and jojoba. Colloidal oatmeal will take away that windburned, rashy look. The vanilla-colored dense cream isn’t greasy, smells like vanilla and feels soothing upon contact.
Whether coming out of the shower, the pool or ocean, your hair will get tangled and completely unmanageable. Modern next-level haircare includes a detangling, heat protection product. Wild Marula Tangle Spray is silicone-free, with light plant oils to protect the hair strand. So many protection products yent that’s created to dissipate. It pumps out in a fine stream mist.
There are so many lip balms out there, but Lippe Balm is different! It isn’t scented or flavored. It’s got a firm consistency, but doesn’t drag. It does a lot, for a little item. This is what they say: “Spiked with an antioxidant-rich blend of shea butter, avocado oil, and cranberry seed oil, plus peptides and sea fern algae. Gives lips a plumper look and a better-defined lip line, keeping them in lip-top condition. Green tea leaf and vitamin C help neutralize free radicals and environmental aggressors.” It’s definitely a good first step before applying makeup.
Many beauty magazines, including Allure, NewBeauty, InStyle, etc., have given their top awards to T.L.C. Sukari Babyfacial. This is a AHA/BHA skin resurfacer (AHAs and BHAs are two different acids that perform different functions in skincare).
It’s a creamy consistency mask that contains glycolic, tartaric, lactic, citric and salicylic acids. This combo rapidly dissolves that thick, distressed layer of skin that creates the appearance of big pores, accentuates wrinkles, leads to breakouts and other problems. Think of the skin of a professional golfer vs. the amateur who’s mostly indoors. Because there are a lot of active ingredients, they do caution you to not use other potent products at that time or on irritated skin. Also, they recommend you use their Virgin Marula Luxury Facial Oil afterwards.
F-Balm Electrolyte Waterfacial is a newer entry to the super-popular night mask category. True to Drunk Elephant’s commitment to clean and efficacious products, it has niacinamide (a Vitamin B derivative), sodium PCA, plant squalane, five forms of ceramides, omega fatty acids and powerful antioxidants. It pumps out a medium-rich lotion consistency that absorbs immediately into your skin. So, you won’t wreck your sheets or come off like an extra in the beauty parlor scene from the 1939 version of The Women. Nobody will know you have it on.
It strengthens the skin’s acid mantle — exactly what the wind strips off — as well as helping with uneven tone and texture. Yet, it isn’t irritating or gritty. Definitely use this the night before you’ll be taking photos.
There’s a new sunscreen that will check a lot of boxes, including drying rapidly and sheer. Umbra Sheer™ Mineral Cream SPF 30 PA+++. comes in a light almond-pink tint, so that there’s no 1960’s lifeguard in Beach Blanket Bingo look. It doesn’t leave a residue, so it won’t pill or feel greasy. So, the PA with a bunch of plus signs indicates an even more effective sunscreen. They suggest using it on the back of your hands, which is a good idea if you don’t like liver spots.
What’s good in a beach bag? Washability! Cuteness! Chic! Drunk Elephant now carries a bunch of things to carry what you need to carry. So, whether you’re at the beach, camping, in a state park changing room, attending an outdoor concert, check out the different colors, sizes and vibes.
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