How to Reset Your Skin After Overindulging in Summer Sun
While you may be rejoicing in the warmer weather, it’s no secret that when it comes to your skin, summer can really take a toll. From redness, inflammation, and sunburns to accelerated wrinkles, dark spots, and skin cancer, the sun’s UV rays aren’t kind to your skin and overindulging will only end up harming your complexion.
While keeping your skin protected from the sun will help to prevent all of the above problems, mistakes happen. If you’ve been neglectful about sun protection and are now suffering the consequences, read on as Vivo Per Lei explains how to reset your skin after spending too much time under the heat of the sun.
Cool Down
The very first thing that you should do after overindulging in the sun is to cool your skin down. It’s likely overheated and feeling inflamed, so get it under some cool water ASAP. The colder the water, the better it will be at reducing the appearance of inflammation, which will help to prevent long-lasting side effects.
While you’re at it, give your skin a cleanse too. Not only does the sun cause you to sweat more, but it also increases sebum production. You need to clear all of that away and create a blank canvas if you’re hoping to reset your complexion.
With that said, it’s crucial that you use a gentle cleanser. As we’ll soon talk about, the last thing that inflamed skin needs is harsh ingredients, so use a cleanser that contains skin-loving, moisturizing ingredients. The Vivo Per Lei Hyaluronic Acid Daily Facial Wash, which is infused with sodium hyaluronate, hemp seed oil, and amino acids, would be a great choice!
For the skin on your body, give the Hemp & Spirulina Moisturizing Shower Gel a try. The combination of hemp seed oil and spirulina extract will leave your skin feeling soothed and soft.
Turn to Aloe Vera
Aloe vera is usually the ingredient that’s most highly recommended when someone is suffering from a sunburn, and there’s a reason for this. Aloe vera is known for being one of the best ingredients around for lowering the feeling of inflammation in the skin. It will also help your skin to feel recuperated from those UV rays much sooner.
How should you add aloe vera to your skincare routine? One option would be to get yourself an aloe vera plant, but the extraction process can be a little messy and time-consuming. For the sake of convenience, a skincare product containing aloe vera would be a better option. However, don’t go for those heavily dyed aloe vera gels that you see at your local drugstore. Instead, find a formula without any irritating ingredients – one that combines aloe vera with other ingredients that also tackle the feeling of inflammation.
Case in point; the Vivo Per Lei Aloe Soothing Facial Serum. This silky solution only contains a handful of ingredients, each one gentle, so you won’t have to worry about it irritating your inflamed skin. Instead, with a blend of aloe vera extract, sodium hyaluronate, silk amino acids, and purslane extract, it will leave your skin feeling calm, relaxed, and balanced. It’s exactly what you need for your skin – summer can be brutal!
Provide as Much Hydration as Possible
If you’ve spent a lot of time in the sun, this means that your skin will be dehydrated. The sun is notorious for sucking moisture out of the skin – summer sun is the worst for this.
To counter the dehydrating effects of the sun, your skin will need some extra moisture. Aloe vera is one way to provide this. Being a humectant, it’s extremely hydrating. However, other ingredients do the same, and your skin will need as much help as possible.
One product that will quickly bump up your skin’s hydration levels is Vivo Per Lei’s 24K Gold Caviar Serum. This formula is brimming with hydrating humectants, including sodium hyaluronate, beta-glucan, silk amino acids, and caviar extract. These ingredients hydrate by binding moisture to the skin, enabling them to quickly quench thirsty cells.
Be Proactive About Moisturizing
One of the ways in which the sun causes dehydration is by damaging the skin’s natural protective barrier. This barrier performs a few important functions, meaning that inhibited moisture retention abilities aren’t the only side effect of this damage. Your skin will also end up more sensitive and prone to irritation.
To prevent this and help your complexion get back to normal as quickly as possible, be proactive about keeping your skin moisturized. A good moisturizer will, in a way, mimic the role of your skin barrier by forming a seal over your skin’s surface. Not only will this help to lock hydration into your skin, but it will also work to block impurities from entering your skin quite so easily.
One moisturizer that does this particularly well is the Vivo Per Lei Marine Aqua Facial Cream. It contains a number of ingredients that will do your sun-soaked skin the world of good, including sodium hyaluronate, seaweed extract, and amino acids.
Cut Out Harsh Ingredients for a While
When your skin barrier is suffering from too much sun exposure, it will be very prone to irritation. Sure, using aloe vera and plenty of hydrating ingredients will help to keep your skin feeling soothed, but inflammation will very quickly flare-up if you apply anything harsh to your skin at this time.
Earlier, we recommended using a gentle cleanser, and this advice needs to be stretched to the rest of your skincare routine too. If your routine currently consists of a few products with potent active ingredients, these need to be put to the side for a while. The last thing that your skin barrier needs now is to be further stimulated. Instead, give it time to recuperate. Focus on products that keep it feeling calm and relaxed.
The same applies to exfoliating products. When your skin barrier is vulnerable, exfoliation should be avoided. Wait until your skin feels back to normal before reintroducing exfoliation into your skincare routine.
Add Niacinamide to Your Skincare Routine
While aloe vera is the gold standard when it comes to soothing skin that has been irritated by the summer sun, niacinamide is another ingredient worth adding to your skincare routine. Also known as vitamin B3, niacinamide is a superstar at reducing the appearance of sun damage. It will soothe the look of redness, lower the feeling of inflammation, and even out visible discoloration.
Better yet, layer niacinamide under your sunscreen, and your skin will feel even better protected from the sun. Niacinamide can help fight against the appearance of both UVA and UVB damage. This makes it a must-have in any summer skincare routine!
Don’t have any products containing niacinamide? Check out the Vivo Per Lei Marine Ultimate All Skin Cream. Niacinamide is found near the top of the ingredient list, showing that it’s used in hefty quantities. This moisturizer also boasts several other ingredients that sun-damaged skin will love. Shea butter, vitamin E, and sodium hyaluronate can all be found in this blend. They’ll help your complexion to heal much faster!
Go Heavy on the Antioxidants
While niacinamide is a fantastic antioxidant, there are plenty of others out there too. These are important for everyone to use, but they become even more so if your skin has experienced over-exposure to the sun. Antioxidants are highly effective at reducing the appearance of sun damage. Be it the look of wrinkles, dark spots, redness, or anything else that the sun has exacerbated, antioxidants will leave your skin with a smoother, brighter, and healthier finish.
Ideally, antioxidants should be incorporated into every step of your skincare routine. Go with the Vivo Per Lei skincare products that we’ve already featured and you’ll be off to a good start – each one is loaded with antioxidants, making it easy to add several to your skincare routine.
For an extra weekly antioxidant boost, give the Vivo Per Lei Marine Revitalizing Leave On Hydrating Mask a try. This mask is packed with an array of plant extracts, each one full of various antioxidants. As you can tell from its name, this mask is extremely hydrating too. As we discussed above, this is also important for your skin – summer can leave it so thirsty!
Stay Out of the Sun
This last piece of advice may seem obvious to some. If your skin is dealing with the aftereffects of too much sun, it definitely doesn’t need even more UV exposure! This will only cause further damage, making it even harder for your skin to recover.
While this doesn’t mean that you need to stay indoors 24/7, make an attempt to avoid the sun during its hottest hours. These are usually between 11 am and 3 pm, although this depends on where in the world you live. This is when UV rays are at their most intense and cause the most damage.
Of course, keeping your skin protected with SPF is vital too. When it comes to your skin, summer sun is always going to be damaging to some extent, no matter the time of day. A broad-spectrum SPF will help to shield your skin from both UVA and UVB rays. While SPF 30 is usually recommended, you may want to opt for something a little higher since your skin is already struggling. Don’t forget to keep reapplying your SPF throughout the day too, even if you happen to be staying indoors. UV rays can penetrate through both clouds and glass. This means that your skin really does need to always be covered during daytime hours.
Summary
As you can see, from the perspective of your skin, summer isn’t much fun! There’s so much out there that can damage your skin at this time of year, especially when it comes to those intense UV rays. While prevention is always the best way forward, don’t panic too much if you happen to overindulge in the sun. Instead, follow the tips that we’ve shared above to reset your complexion, and then make an effort to do better for your skin in the future.
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