Beach day must-haves to keep you looking great and feeling fabulous
By Carla Snuggs
Healthy skin is hard to keep up with for all of you beach lovers! Posh Beauty Blog has the perfect products to keep your sun-kissed skin flawless and hydrated along with a host of beachy products to help you have a fabulous beach day! Here are some fabulous beach bag must-haves:
Goldfaden MD Sun Visor SPF 30
Dr. Goldfaden’s fast absorbing, oil-free, PABA-free and fragrance-free SPF 30 sunscreen protects your skin from harmful UVA/UVB rays. This unique product offers dual-action protection by delivering high-level UV filters to help prevent sun damage, fine lines, and dark spots. Skin renewing organic red tea works to rejuvenate skin and provide antioxidant benefits. This advanced, revolutionary, ultralight translucent oil-free, fragrance-free and even smear-free formula is a must for all skin types. Purchase: GoldfadenMD.com
Skinn Essential Radiance Kit
The Skinn Essential Radiance Kit has 3 summer/beach essentials: Essential Radiance Body Wash, Essential Radiance Sugar & Shea Body Polish and Essential Radiance Botanical Extract Mist. Essential Radiance Body Wash is a detergent-free body wash formula will gently cleanses and conditions the skin. It has a soothing scent of Green Tea Leaves, and romantic notes of White Peony, Rose and Pink Jasmine. Fresh Lemon and Bergamot help to enliven and awaken your mind. Summer skin can become dry and crepe, so smooth, soften, nurture, condition and exfoliate your skin with Essential Radiance Sugar & Shea Body Polish. This luxe body polish contains natural ingredients like Shea Butter, Pistachio, Avocado, Olive and Hemp, Pure Cane Sugar to exfoliate and exotic fruits like Acai Berry and vanilla planifolia fruit that help combat free radicals. The Essential Radiance Botanical Extract Mist is both calming and sensual. Antioxidant-rich extracts, such as grapefruit, rose, orange and apple will help address free radicals, soothe and hydrate after a day at the beach.
BIC® Simply Soleil Click™
BIC recently launched the perfect product to get your legs ready for the beach-ready: the BIC® Simply Soleil Click™. Simply Soleil Click offers a brightly-colored disposable handle, six 3-blade disposable cartridges in each package and a soothing moisture strip with cocoa butter. The soothing moisture strip is 2.5 times larger than the average BIC razor moisture strip, which pampers skin and leaves legs silky after each shave. Simply Soleil Click is super affordable at $6.99.
Double Buff
Before you start slapping on the self-tanners, use Double Buff, by Mio - a DRY skin buffer that kicks in its double action body buffing in 30 seconds flat. The dry exfoliation leaves your skin soft, smooth and ready for your sef tanner. It’s a dual enzyme exfoliator that leaves you feeling well- exfoliated without the shards of salt or sugar that rake your skin! Perfectly rounded spheres of Pumice, Lava and Bamboo are blended with Papaya and Pineapple enzymes to dissolve dry skin, increase cell regeneration, and improves strength and elasticity of your skin. Use this as the first step to a flawless self-tan ($33, Mioskincare.com).
YON-KA PARIS SPF 50 High Protection Crème and Eau Micellaire
Yon-ka Paris' high UVA – UVB broad spectrum protection cream is perfect for fair skin and all skin types when exposed to intensive sunlight. Key Ingredients: Hydrating, revitalizing, regenerating; apricot kernel oil, vegetable glycerin. Soothing, softening; bisabolol, vitamin B5, licorice extract. Anti-oxidant, protecting, and regenerating; vitamin E, three teas polyphenols and vitamin A ($55, yonkausa.com). Eau Micellaire is a cleansing water, perfect for the beachy, summer weather because Eau Micellaire tones, refreshes, enlivens and promotes youthful skin with every application without causing irritation. Micellaire technology allows this cleansing water to combine expert make-up removing agents and anti-aging prevention elements to capture impurities and remove make-up. This ultra-efficient cleanser provides a fast and luxurious tonic that instantly removes all traces of makeup from the face, eyes and lips in one simple step with no water needed ($42, dermstore.com, skinstore.com, skin-one.com).
LALICIOUS Sugar Lemon Blossom Hand Cream
Indulge in a luxurious hand cream with a refreshing blend of floral notes and lemon zest. Mango Butter deeply moisturizes to nourish and heal dehydrated skin. Milk Thistle seals in moisture with a protective barrier, leaving skin deliciously soft and smooth ($18, lalicious.com)
Skinn Foot Fetish Heel Balm
Smooth, rejuvenate, and hydrate rough or cracked feet with Skinn’s Foot Fetish Heel Balm. Formulated with Vitamin A, E, and C, Shea Butter, Meadowfoam Sead and Jojoba Oil for hydration, plus Salicylic Acid for exfoliation... this balm glides on like butter, yet absorbs quickly, giving your feet the luxury treatment it deserves.
KEVYN AUCOIN Matte Lip Color
Rich in pigment, The Matte Lip Color is a velvety-smooth, full-coverage matte finish lipstick that stays bright and luminous all day long, locking lips into a state of fixed color that won’t smudge and wears for hours. I love all of the shades, perfect for poolside events and lounging at the beach. My fave: Eternal! This innovative formula also contains special esters and emollient ingredients that guarantee the minimization of wrinkles over time ($33, Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman, Nordstrom, Space NK, and independent and online retailers nationwide).
NCLA NAIL WRAPS IN 'NEON BLOSSOMS
These bright, floral and summery nail wraps are the perfect accessory and pop of color to any weekend beach look. And the best part about them? There is no drying time or heat lamp required and they don't chip for over a week ($16, Shopncla.com)
Skinn Collagenesis® Daily Defense - SPF 30
Skinn’s Collagenesis Daily Defense is a beach day must- have as it's a light-weight, quickly absorbing sunscreen serum that provides SPF 30 and broad spectrum UVA/UVB protection from the sun’s harmful rays. Formulated with an advanced encapsulated delivery system for immediate and long-term moisturization, as well as a full array of Vitamins A, C and E to provide ongoing antioxidant protection against free radical damage. Oat Beta-Glucan, a powerful naturally derived anti-aging ingredient, perfectly complements this sophisticated sun protection formula by soothing previously damaged skin tissues, while helping inhibit the formation of new sunburn cells ($35.00, Store.skinn.com).
My Beauty Tea
My Beauty Tea (MBT) is a great way to help promote healthy, glowing skin and hair this summer and beyond. Beauty starts from within and a daily dose of MBT as this natural beverage will hydrate the body while calming the mind and soul. Hand-packed in Canada, MBT sources only the finest ingredients from around the world. Fruits and flowers are blended with high-quality herbs packed with anti-oxidants. MBT also offers a variety of fun flavors such as Mermaid Blend (hibiscus flowers, rosehips, fruit and coconut shreds), Beauty Blend (cinnamon bark, chamomile flowers, orange peels) and Cozy Party (herbal tea with raspberry leaves, lemon verbena and cardamom). Available online at Mybeautytea.com and select beauty departments and spas.
Lustre Drops
Lustre Drops by Mitch Stone Essentials was created specifically to help bring on those beachy waves. Celebrity hairstylist Mitch Stone, avid surfer, has created a haircare line specifically for people who love being near the water. His Lustre Drops (one of six products in his line) is a serum that detangles and brings instant shine to my hair, and protects each strand while while I'm swimming. Mitch Stone recently used Lustre Drops on a couple of stars from 'Orange is the New Black' - Laverne Cox and Dascha Polanco! Purchase: Mitchstonehair.com
Lifestyle/Accessories
Tervis Insulated Drinkware
Upgrade your beach drinkware! Tervis, has a chic line of tumblers and water bottles that are perfect for sitting at the beach or being on-the-go. There are so many designs and licensees so the drinkwear can be tailored to your passions, interests and style. I love that Tervis products are Made in America. They’re double wall insulated so they’re perfect for cold or hot drinks, and prevent condensation; dishwasher safe; and have a lifetime guarantee. I’ll be sipping my ice tea and lemonade in my San Diego Chargers tumblers all summer long.
Glam Screen Mirror Screen Protector
The Glam Screen Mirror Screen Protector is a smartphone cover that doubles as a mirror. When the screen is lit, the Glam Screen is invisible. When it's off, the cover turns into a high-definition mirror so you can check your make up, fix your hair and get food out of your teeth before taking that perfect beach selfie. I love that the tempered glass is scratch-resistant tempered glass, and it installs without bubbles in a flash ($34.99, Glamscreen.com).
Disclosure: Press samples were provided by some brands/PR for editorial consideration, product testing, photography and review.
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