As we all know about wellness in terms of exercise, diet and nutrition. What about your body skincare routine ?

Personally, I’ve been always about facial care and investing in that for many years, but my body skincare routine? Honestly not the first thing in my shopping list. What I have discovered, it’s more than just a body wash them smells exhilarating.

Your body skincare is just as important as the face! Some people experience body acne, like myself after my first born. Acne btw is the most challenging skin condition. You have try many different products to see what works for your type of acne. Studying as a facial specialist I learned it can be caused internally meaning in your body, caused by hormonal, or allergic reaction to foods. External on your skin, can be allergic response to environment conditions, skincare, congestion from oil production in the pores. There are many reasons and causes and always recommend speaking with your dermatologist before a treatment.

My focus has been lately, trying to advoid the prescription route internally, and focus on products for my daily routine externally.

Some of my body skin concerns are brighter skin, firmness and body acne. I focus on exfoliation, that helps remove dead skin cells and help with cell turnover, which helps skin restore and have brighter result. You can exfoliate manually like a body scrub, or use a cleanser with active ingredients that also exfoliate by applying directly to skin to give a “glow”.

Some of those ingredients that help are enzymes, niacinamide, and vitamin C. I also only use products that are hypoallergenic,and non-comedogenic ( meaning , doesn’t clog the pores) sometimes shea butter isn’t the best move haha as I used to use, it does hydrate! but it also clogs the pores, and when you have body acne that’s the last thing I want to do.

I also advoid sulfates and parabens.

You may have to invest more into a body wash or lotion, but you may spend that money on a good cafe experience these days haha, so I chose my battles and it’s always the wellness that wins!

Here are some of my favorite products for my body care regimen. Remember skin routines work but it does take time to see results and everyone is different,also try to be consistent.

Cheers.

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