Beat the Heat with Summer Skin Care Products

Ensure Your Complexion Keeps its Cool While the Temperature Rises

Jul 14, 2009

The heat is on... but your skin doesn't have to go into meltdown this summer. It's easy to keep your cool while the temperature rises. How?

With moisture-boosting products that promise to soothe and hydrate thirsty, stressed-out complexions. The most important product in your beauty kit is undoubtedly a high-factor sunscreen to protect skin from harmful UV rays. But don't forget those warm-weather essentials to ensure you remain fresh faced all summer long.

Hold the Gin and Give Skin a Refreshing Tonic Instead

Sun-worshipping is an instant route to wrinkles (stick to the fake tan, ladies), but if you've been unlucky and burned, even though you were slapping on the sunscreen, cool down with Eau Thermale Avène Spring Water Spray, £3 from Boots, or independent pharmacies, which promises to instantly calm and refresh skin and soothe complaints such as sunburn, prickly heat and dehydration. Anti-irritating, it has a 7.5 pH (close to neutral) so it will not sting or burn skin, and can be sprayed on open, clean wounds.

Parched skin will love Darphin's Hydraskin Intensive Moisturising Serum, £45, House of Fraser, which relieves that uncomfortable tight feeling that comes from a day exposed to sun, sand and seawater, as well as restoring radiance and guarding against dehydration.

For a double whammy with both moisture boosting and anti-ageing properties, try SPF15 Super Hydrate Face Cream, £34.26 from Hampton Sun at Space NK, which contains a cocktail of vitamins, botanical extracts and anti-oxidants to help diminish the signs of premature ageing while Protein Skin Serum, £54, from Jo Malone, softens dehydration lines and restores a healthy, dewy complexion.Also try Olay Regenerist Rehydrating Lotion with SPF15, £19.50, that helps to keep ageing at bay by regenerating skin's appearance for a younger-looking you! As well as your favourite lotions and potions, take it one step further by giving skin a helping hand from the inside out with Nude's Hydrate food supplement, £50.89, also from Space NK, which is packed with Omega oils to keep skin supple and help plump and firm.

Tackle Ageing Around the Eyes

The delicate skin around the eyes is one of the first places to show signs of ageing, so when you're outdoors this summer, keep those shades firmly on! Everyone has their own eye issues, whether it's that papery, 'crepey' look or dark circles.

Perk up peepers with with a few dots of Bobbi Brown's Hydrating Eye Cream, £26.50 to minimise the look of fine, dry lines or Estee Lauder's Hydra Complete Multi-Level Moisture Eye Gel Creme, £27 a refreshing treat which harnesses mineral-rich bio-water to plump and iron out those lines in a flash.

Restore Skin While You Sleep

Skin repairs itself while you sleep, so get into the habit of massaging in a nourishing night cream like Prescriptives' new Comfort Night cream, £35, which promises all sorts of lovely things while you catch your zzzs, from infusing moisture into the skin while helping to calm sensitive and irritated patches.

So while you're guaranteed to sizzle in that hot summer bikini, make sure your skin doesn't suffer.

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