SUMMER SKIN
Get your body ready for the heat
Our bodies may not be bikini ready quite yet, but like it or not, the warm weather is causing us to shed some layers. Here are some of our favourite products to help our bodies look good in those summer skirts:
1. If your body needs a bit of a boost, try the Elizabeth Grant Collagen Firming and Toning Body Kit ($39.99, elizabethgrant.com). Including a Collagen Firming and Toning Serum that contains ingredients such as smoke tree and anise extracts to tighten and improves the appearance skin, we love the Extra Firming Body Cream, which helps to improve firmness and elasticity with Yellow Golden Rod flower extracts and caffeine.
2. Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula Skin Therapy Oil ($13.99, available at Wal-mart) is a dry oil fortified with Cetesomate-E Complex to increase the skin’s ability to absorb ingredients like vitamin E and rosehip oil to target stretch marks, scars and wrinkles.
3. After all that body prep, polish off your skin with Nivea Express Hydration Body Lotion ($8.90, nivea.ca). The fast absorbing lotion incorporates Hydra IQ technology, utilizing Nobel Prize-winning research on Aquaporins to help restore the skin’s moisture for over 24 hours.
4. Don’t forget your feet! Keep them sandal ready with Burt’s Bees Peppermint Foot Lotion ($14.99, burtsbees.com). Ingredients like tea tree, parsley and sodium bicarbonate help neutralize mild odors, peppermint oil invigorates tired overworked feet, and wheat germ and coconut oils add moisture to rough and calloused feet.
5. Wax away any unwanted hair with Andrea Professionals Water Soluble Cold Wax ($13.99, andreahairremoval.com). The all-natural based wax requires no heating and the water-soluble solution makes residue easy to wash away. The kit also includes SloGrow Lotion to help inhibit the growth of new hair.
