Prepare and Protect Your Skin for Spring
Spring is here, which means it is time to deep clean your house and switch around your wardrobe from warm winter coats to skirts and dresses. Spring is also an important time to update your skincare regimen as temperatures and humidity increase and you become more exposed to sun and allergens. This seasonal change will also cause changes to your skin's overall health and appearance. As we leave behind dull, dry, lacklustre, itchy winter skin, and layers of balms and oils, let's take a look at how you can best prepare and protect your skin for Spring and the potential damaging effects of the hotter Summer months.
SPRING CLEAN – Exfoliate and renew
Spring is a time to bring out brightness and exfoliate a little more. Exfoliating can remove dry, dead skin cells after the cooler months and restore a fresh radiant glow to the skin. This will allow moisturisers to be absorbed better into the skin and even skin texture. The AHAVA Skincare range provides the perfect collection of products to achieve that Spring clean feeling.
The AHAVA Time To Clear Facial Mud Exfoliator is a gentle facial scrub that exfoliates and renews the skin to reveal a softer, more radiant complexion. Formulated with Dead Sea Mud and tiny polishing granules to gently remove surface skin cells for a deeper cleansing experience. This exfoliator also cleans pores to promote cell renewal and leaves a glowing radiant complexion.
Shop ThisDead Mud is a black mineral mud found in the Dead Sea region which is rich in potassium, magnesium, calcium and iron which are all essential ingredients to maintaining supple, healthy skin. Unique to AHAVA Skincare products, the natural properties of mud have been proven to restore moisture to the skin. Similarly, it helps to relieve and soothe symptoms such as roughness, soreness, cracking and redness.
Our tip: exfoliate using granulated/gommage/enzymatic exfoliator once per week, and use a detox mud mask on another day of the week.
Lighten the Load
This is the time to also switch to lighter and more hydrating products. A moisturiser is crucial to any skin-care routine, but using heavy creams in the spring can actually cause unwanted breakouts. We recommend that you switch from very heavy, nourishing and oil-based products to lighter formulations, like a hydrating serum. Look for serum, lotions, or hydrating gels rather than creams.
We recommend AHAVA Dead Sea Osmoter Concentrate as this moisture and radiance boosting serum recharges, illuminates and rehydrates the skin. This serum provides supercharged benefits as it features a new technology that has the ability to deliver 3 times the Osmoter to skin cells.
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Seasonal Ingredients
Health experts say that we should eat 'seasonally'. In fact, the same rationale should be applied when choosing ingredients for skin. Besides the mandatory SPF, products should contain antioxidants, anti-inflammatory and melanin management agents and that are more equipped to environmental stresses caused by the warmer months and extreme levels of UV Radiation. Look for ingredients that include:
- Aloe, Cucumber
- Centella Asiatica
- Curcurnim
- Magnesium
- Phytic & Ferulic Acids
- Zinc
- Resveratrol
- CQ10
- Vitamin C
- Glycyrrhiza Glabra
- Venuceane
- Quintescine
- Niacinamide
- Oligopeptide-68
- Oligopeptide-24
Smarter Sun Protection
After spending months rugged up indoors, slathering on sun protection is a must once it starts getting warmer.. *Correction* more diligent sun protection is a must and that includes application even when it is cloudy. “Springtime is actually a high-risk time for sunburn and sun damage,” says dermatologist Christopher O'Connell.
“Although the weather is warmer, it’s still so mild you might not feel how strong the sun actually is. It is important that you apply sunscreen every morning and reapply it again before any outdoor activity during the day.”
Ensure that sun-care products or moisturisers and makeup offer Broad Spectrum, with physical sunscreen that have Titanium Dioxide or Zinc Oxide included.The AHAVA Skincare range has a wide variety of SPF products to ensure UVA/UVB protection.
The AHAVA Beauty Before Age BBA Uplift Day Cream SPF 20 is a clinically approved UVA, UVB and evo-vivo measured infrared protection that also works to reduce the appearance of deep wrinkles to refine facial contours and elevate sagging.
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There are many other ways you can prepare your skin for the warmer months, both topically and holistically. Nothing is worse for skin then a long, cold winter, low humidity in conjunction with heat and hot air. Knees, elbows, heels and toes can suffer from a winter of what we don't see, we neglect. The AHAVA skincare and body products are the perfect addition to any routine.
Here are some final tips on how to awaken skin from its winter hibernation and get it ready for Spring and Summer.
- Exfoliate and moisturise head to toe – we love the AHAVA Mineral Body Exfoliator as it is a 2-in-1 cleansing and exfoliating gel that removes dead cells and promotes skin-renewal, leaving
- skin feeling super refreshed.
- Get moving – something as simples as a daily brisk walk
- Eat more fruit and vegetables
- Keep well hydrated
- Invest in a good foot cream and apply before bed. AHAVA Dermud Intensive Foot Cream is a rich, intensive foot cream that treats, soothes and protects dry, cracked and split skin.
- Wear protective sunglasses
- Change your pillowcase more often