How To Moisturize Your Body Naturally?

Moisturizing your skin is probably THE most important beauty step to taking care of your face and body. Whatever your age, your skin type, and the season, bringing water to your skin via a cream or cosmetic treatment helps to counter its natural dehydration and keep your skin beautiful and healthy. And what could be better than using natural ingredients in clean formulas: without risk to health, these treatments will moisturize effectively and bring you all the benefits of nature. Let’s zoom in on how to moisturize your body naturally and explore the options available to you for natural skin hydration!

Why and how to hydrate your skin naturally?

–Dehydration and Transepidermal Water Loss

Most of the time, we are not aware of it, but our skin naturally and imperceptibly loses water every day. This phenomenon is also called Transepidermal Water Loss (TEWL): transepidermal, certainly, but very real since approximately 500 ml of water escapes each day through the pores of the skin. Drinking enough and regularly is a first step to counteract skin dehydration. But the ideal remains to apply in addition a moisturizing cream adapted to your skin type, to replenish your face and body with water.

–Skin hydration, an essential habit

In addition to this natural evaporation, the skin is subjected to more or less marked external aggressions every day. Wind, cold, sun, pollution or the friction of clothing can undermine its integrity, and the hydrolipidic film, this natural skin barrier, sometimes has difficulty playing its protective role. Without an external source of hydration, the skin runs several risks:

• It can become drier, with all the inconveniences that this often entails: tightness, discomfort, etc. In the most extreme cases, this dehydration can result in painful cracks or fissures.
• It tends to be duller and you don’t look good
• It can become more easily marked: dehydrated skin will tend to display more fine lines.

Don’t wait for these signs to appear before taking action: the ideal is to apply a moisturizing treatment morning and evening, adapted to your skin type, based on natural active ingredients.

Lotion, cream, oil: which products target skin hydration?

There are different types of body care products depending on your skin’s needs. These will allow you to hydrate yourself as best as possible to have beautiful skin.

–Lotion, cream and milk for all skin types

Lotions, creams and body milks have a light and non-sticky texture that allows them to penetrate quickly while having sufficient moisturizing power to make your skin soft. These treatments are perfect for daily hydration by fighting against the aggressions of the winter cold or pollution.

–Moisturizing balms and body butters for sensitive skin

Moisturizing balms and body butters are nourishing and protect your skin on a daily basis. Sensitive or very dry skin love them because they are rich in lipids.

–Body oil for dry to very dry skin

Oil is the perfect treatment when you have very dry skin that needs a strong dose of hydration and nutrition. It deeply nourishes the skin, repairs and soothes. Vegetable oils, such as sweet almond oil or coconut oil, are famous for their benefits on the body but not only, you can also use them on your hair. Contrary to what one might think, dry body oils do not leave any greasy film.

Little tip: whatever the texture chosen, one of the essential steps for using your moisturizer is to gently massage your body. The treatment then penetrates better into the epidermis and deeper into the skin for a boosting effect.

How To Moisturize Your Body Naturally?

Nature is full of treasures to take care of your skin. Certain plants, berries or fruits with moisturizing properties have proven themselves for thousands of years. For example, we can mention vegetable oils, which nourish, repair and soothe the epidermis. Vegetable oil has the advantage of being softer and better assimilated by the skin. Unlike mineral oils, its production does not require heavy chemical processes, which have a strong impact on the environment. Among the favorite vegetable oils for dry skin or skin lacking softness, we can mention:

• Olive oil: rich in vitamins (A, D and E in particular) and squalene, it prevents TEWL and provides its antioxidant properties,
• Argan oil is perfect for nourishing, protecting and repairing skin cells. Rich in antioxidants, it is an oil of choice to fight against skin aging and reduce wrinkles and fine lines,
• Coconut oil: very well tolerated, even by sensitive skin, coconut oil is an active ingredient of choice to moisturize the face, body, but also lips and hair,
• Jojoba oil, for its part, nourishes, softens and smoothes skin lacking in hydration. It has the advantage of having a dry texture, which will not leave a greasy film, and can therefore be used by all skin types, even those suffering from imperfections.
• Castor oil is a moisturizing, healing and purifying vegetable oil that deeply moisturizes the skin while reducing wrinkles and fine lines. It can be used to remove makeup from your skin but also to nourish and thicken your eyelashes and hair.
• Aloe vera gel, the “miracle” moisturizer, recognized for its benefits since Antiquity and made up of 99% water, aloe vera is a miracle plant with many moisturizing and healing properties. It also fights against excess sebum by eliminating impurities and stimulating cell renewal. It instantly refreshes the skin in case of sunburn and nourishes it deeply. To preserve all its active properties, the aloe vera pulp must be cold pressed and without preservatives.

Moisturizing your skin daily helps preserve its radiance and prevent the appearance of wrinkles. A beauty and health gesture that has become essential for many women… The moisturizing creams offered on the cosmetic market are numerous and full of promise. However, their composition is not always transparent and safe. Exit preservatives, dyes and other artificial fragrances, hydration can now be done with natural ingredients!

Moisturizing is an act of self-love and communion with the resources of our environment. Get to know the ingredients mentioned above and fly away to a beauty nourished by nature.

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