Thursday, June 25, 2015

The Foolproof Beach Body: 10 Products for Prepping Your Skin

Photographed by Mikael Jansson, Vogue, May 2009

Summer’s balmy temperatures and ocean views are best enjoyed in paper-thin slip dresses and modern maillots—which is to say that for the next three months, your skin will have its day in the sun. With that in mind, the season’s best products are designed to get your limbs glowing from the sanctuary of your bathtub. Mio’s body-perfecting dry brush does the trick before you turn on the water by boosting circulation and sloughing away dead skin particles, while the New York City superfacialist Mila Moursi’s Revitalizing & Beautifying Oil seals in nourishing Vitamins E, F, and A après shower and leaves behind a healthy sheen—essentially the perfect parentheticals to your bathing routine.

Much can be done from inside the tub as well: Clarisonic makes a whirring brush head specifically designed for the body that’s especially good at exfoliating elbows, knees, and feet. Follow it with Malin + Goetz’s addictive peppermint-scented bamboo and pumice scrub for a smooth canvas for self-tanner or sunscreen. In recent months, the top beauty companies have also managed to multitask effectively, designing breakthrough in-shower lotions that are, in some cases, more effective than a traditional body moisturizer. Jergens’s innovative in-shower lotion, which is applied to wet skin immediately after you’ve turned off the water, provides twice the moisture of a standard cream and locks in a blend of hydration and coconut oil when it’s smoothed over skin—no rinsing required. In need of an instant tan? St. Tropez’s In Shower Gradual Tan can be applied to clean, wet skin (and washed away three minutes later) to bestow a gradual golden effect to even the palest complexions while simultaneously providing a dose of moisture. Here’s to leaving your body looking and feeling all together born again.

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