If you are a current client, you already know why it’s so important to choose the right skincare regimen for your personal dosha. But even if your facial skin looks its best, many of us still forget to pay attention to the skin below our neck!
Don’t despair… It’s never too late, and having a structured body care regimen with clean, natural ingredients will not only keep your skin feeling supple and looking radiantly healthy, but will also protect you from the damaging effects of toxic chemicals and invasive treatments (learn more).
Why Pay Attention to Body Care?
Your skin is your body’s front-line watertight barrier that protects you from the millions of microbes, toxins and other damaging effects of the environment. When your skin stays unprotected and undernourished over a period of several months, it often develops problems like irritation, redness, flaking, itching, acne and red bumps, and even conditions such as eczema.
The Science: Larger body surface areas need special treatment. This is because while facial skin has only 4-8 sublayers of epidermis, body skin has 11-17 sublayers. So it is important to choose regimens that can go beyond skin deep and create building blocks (a/k/a the collagen-elastin matrix) without being sticky or heavy on the skin.
Targeted Body Care with Puraveda Organics
Your Plan of Action: Before your skin problems get progressively more difficult to deal with, a few (minimalist) preventive measures can save you from expensive and uncomfortable treatments later.
Here’s our simple guide of the products you need for soft, smooth, and well-nourished skin of your life:
24+ Hour Moisture Lock
One of the most important protocols for great body skin is optimum moisturization. Regardless of your skin type, when your skin is hydrated, it looks healthy and gives you a supple feeling. Our best-selling Vanilla Silk Body Butter is a silky smooth formula with a warm Vanilla scent that you’ll love. It has Shea Butter, Aloe Vera Gel, Avocado Oil, and other Cold-pressed oils for guaranteed deep skin moisture. Bilberry, Neem, and Calendula soothe, repair, and improve skin texture.
After your skin is thoroughly cleansed (and exfoliated with our Papaya & Honey Exfoliation Mask & Scrub), take a small amount of our rich body butter and apply evenly on the skin. The formula is lightweight and made with USDA organic and sustainably wild-gathered ayurvedic botanicals, and absorbs quickly, leaving skin renewed and refreshed for a long time.
Vanilla Silk Body Butter works best when applied post-shower or for extra hydration right before bed. Don’t forget to concentrate on hands, feet, and elbows.
Sun Protection
Sun exposure leads to accelerated skin aging, uneven skin tone, sunburn, thickened bumpy skin (solar elastosis), and other serious damage (such as skin cancer!). To minimize these, an effective sunscreen becomes a vitally important part of your daily regimen body care with Puraveda Organics.
With a formula that is sweat and water resistant, is easy to apply, and provides broad spectrum protection against UVA, UVB, and UVC rays – our @PVO Sun Protect SPF 30+ (EWG Approved) is what we recommend. A 2–in-1 body and facial sunscreen that blends in immediately, providing a healthy finish without feeling dry or heavy, our SunProtect is made with Micronized Zinc Oxide (learn how it benefits your skin), cold-pressed oils, soothing botanical extracts, and our proprietary DevaBright formula. Provides up to 4 hours of protection against sunburn, aging, dryness, and hyperpigmentation.
Suitable for all skin types, SunProtect is easy to apply and won’t leave a white sheen on your skin and will not stain your clothes.
Skin Friendly Shaving
A part of your body care may also include hair removal. Everytime you wax or shave your skin, our Puraveda AfterShave Toner/Balm instantly reduces any redness and helps minimize post wax skin bumps/ shaving rash. It has an amazing aroma of Pure Sandalwood Oil, with extracts of Blueberry, Beet Root, and Naturally Sourced Vitamins to keep skin nourished and protected.
Once it’s fully absorbed, follow with Vanilla Silk Body Butter to restore ultimate hydration. Suitable for both men and women.
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