Clean Skin Care Products to Renew Your Spring Routine
Clean Skin Care Products to Renew Your Spring Routine
By: Briley Rakow
Spring is all about renewal and starting fresh, and nothing says fresh quite like clean skincare. Keeping your skin healthy and chemical-free is an absolute must heading into the warmer weather, and luckily, there are lots of amazing brands to help you revitalize your skin.
The first step in any skincare routine is cleansing your skin of all the dirt, sweat, and makeup that may gather overnight or throughout the day. The Youth To The People Superfood Antioxidant Cleanser uses cold-pressed antioxidants from kale, spinach, and green tea to prevent buildup in your pores and support your skin’s pH balance. This is a great product to use once or twice a day, particularly if you have normal to oily skin. If you’re a bit on the dyer side, the Versed Skincare Gentle Cycle Milky Cleanser may be more your speed. It uses anti-inflammatory and antioxidant-rich ingredients to purify and protect your skin through everything the new season throws at you.
Serums are a great way to focus your skincare routine around your skins’ specific needs. You can use them everyday oras a need based regimen. They’re also easily layerable with other skincare products. The INKEY List’s Hyaluronic Acid Hydrating Serum is sure to leave your skin feeling smooth and hydrated with 2% hyaluronic acid. It’s perfect if you struggle with maintaining your natural glow over the course of the day, but is still simple enough to use on oily skin. If you’re looking for that dewy spring skin, the combination of niacinamide and hyaluronic acid in Glow Recipe’s Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops is exactly what you need. The serum hydrates the skin while also reducing hyperpigmentation leaving you with a beautiful glow.
To keep all these lovely ingredients in, you’ll need a moisturizer that hydrates without feeling heavy or oily. On the lighter side of the moisturizer spectrum is First Aid Beauty’s Hello FAB Coconut Water Cream. Full of electrolytes, this product nurtures your skin without adding any extra oils. For those of us who need something a little more heavy-duty, Skinfix uses active lipids, peptides, small particle hyaluronic acid, and shea butter to prevent water loss and keep the skin firm in their Barrier+ Triple Lipid-Peptide Face Cream. Somewhere between these two products lies the Tatcha Dewy Skin Cream Plumping + Hydrating Moisturizer which utilizes Japanese purple rice to create a healthy glow for your skin.
An often forgotten, but all too important step in the skin care process is sunscreen. Dermatologists are finally being heard as skincare companies are creating all formulas of sunscreen, and luckily for us, have come out with some clean products that don’t leave an oily white cast on your skin. Farmacy’s Green Defense Daily Mineral Sunscreen blends out well under makeup and, since it’s a mineral sunscreen, protects reef and ocean life when you wear it at the beach. Supergoop! who has no shortage of clean sunscreen products, created the perfect clear sunscreen for summer and winter. My personal pick is the Glowscreen Sunscreen SPF 40 PA+++, which doubles as a makeup primer and offers blue light protection for days where your screen time is extra heavy.
Skin care is so important in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and clean products ensure that your skin is protected from unnecessary chemicals and irritants. All of these products can be layered together or added into your current routine, and are sure to leave your skin feeling renewed and refreshed all season long.