Swap Pasty Skin for a Beautiful Glowing Beach Body - the Natural and Organic Way!

Summer is the time when our skin gets an airing, especially in the UK. We hardly get a chance to reveal our skin normally, as we shelter from wind, rain and cold weather most of the year. You maybe planning on a vacation abroad or just want to get the sun kissed look, so now is the perfect time to get yourself pampered and looking fabulous.

If, like me, you’re feeling a tad pasty and unconfident about revealing your winter body for the whole world to view on the beach, then take a few vital steps to create a confident new you. Not only will you look healthy on the outside, you will genuinely be healthy on the inside as you can easily achieve the look without the use of loads of nasty chemicals that could compromise your health, cause allergies or skin sensitivity.

Some of our recommendations are classic favourites that are time tested and really do work, rather than the latest new fads on the market!

It’s really important to get your skin ready for receiving new products that are going to revitalize and energise, so getting rid of old built up dead winter skin cells is an important first step; with this all important natural beauty care treatment, you’ll find your skin glowing and ready for the sun. This step is called exfoliation and can be done easily through some home made treatments such as granulated sugar. But for those of you that prefer all the aromatherapy oils formulated into an invigorating and beneficial ready made scrub, you must try our Spiezia body scrub, or Eselle Organics luscious and invigorating Lime and Coconut organic body scrub. Exfoliate your whole body from toe to décolletage (cleavage) at least once a week to keep your skin looking healthy throughout the summer. Don’t forget the hard to reach bits. Exfoliate gently but regularly for optimum results, its really important to follow with a moisturiser so that your skin doesn’t dry out, that’s why Eselle’s Lime and Coconut Body Scrub is so good, it’s a two in one that leaves you smelling fabulous and silky smooth afterwards.

If you have let the body lotions slip, then make sure you don’t forget this all important step now. Dry, flaky, greying skin will not look healthy and will easily damage under the sun. To get your skin beautifully primed, moisturize everyday after you shower or bath, with an all over organic body moisturiser. For lotions, try Essential Care Hand and Body lotion or Green People’s No scent Hand and Body Lotion, but if you really love to pamper yourself try Organic Apoteke’s Body Cream, one of our Raw Gaia or Eselle Organic Body Butters.

The next and final stage before hitting the beach is getting the tanned look. Wise sun worshippers will know that tanning beds are not such a good idea and increase the chance of skin cancer dramatically. So getting that tanned look in a healthy non-damaging way is essential if you are looking for the sun kissed look this summer. Even if you’re not going on holiday but want to look like you’ve been on the beach, then we have the natural, healthy alternative to getting the perfect tan. Green People’s Self Tan Lotion, like all of our products, has no parabens, phalates, petrochemicals, colorants or nasties, and can be applied 2-3 hours before needed. To build up your tan, you will need to re-apply again after 3 days. If you’ve followed the first two steps to getting your skin primed well, then the self tan stage will be easy!

When you finally do hit the beach, make sure you use organic sun protection, start off with a high factor such as Green People SPF22 and then reduce down to SPF15 as your natural tan builds. This will prevent you burning and also from damaging your skin. John Masters Sea Salt Mist gets your hair in the mood for the beach by protecting it and giving it extra Body and wave. Use a healthy bronzer such Inika’s Mineral Bronzer on your face along with a luscious lip gloss from Sante, and Zoya’s fabulous Kylie 299 Coral Pink nail polish to complete your summer look – and all without exposing yourself to one nasty chemical, how clever is that!?