Transform your post-shower routine into a luxurious experience
hen was the last time that you truly invested in your bodycare? While you may already have locked down a face product for every inch of your complexion, your body deserves the same love and attention - the skin is the largest organ in the body, after all.
Don’t skimp and settle for the leftover samples you have acquired from hotel stays, proper body care should be packed with all the nourishing ingredients that you would find in your facial skincare routine.
Support the skin’s natural barrier with a body oil. These are not the formulas that you may have been familiar with in the past. The new oils on the block are non-greasy, non-sticky and instead provide long-lasting hydration.
Enriched with the likes of CBD, essential oils and botanicals, they invigorate the senses and offer a pampering and luxury experience every single time you step out of the shower, while also leaving skin soft and supple.
With or without shimmer included, they bring a holiday-worthy glow and feel like a real indulgence with every application. Simply massage into skin to maximise the self-care experience and to encourage quicker and better absorption of the ingredient line-up.
For oily skin types, you may think you need to veer away from oil-based products, but in fact the opposite is true. You may find better hydration from body oils than lotions and creams and with the likes of jojoba oil, they can help regulate sebum production by mimicking the skin’s own production.
Blemish and acne-prone skin may want to forgo some of the heavier components like coconut oil, avocado oil and almond oil and instead look out for peppermint essential oil, tea tree oil and rosehip which have antibacterial properties.
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Ole Henriksen has harnessed the expertise of his beloved skincare line and transformed it into bodycare with a two-part collection that includes this body oil.
The Firmly Yours Dry Body Oil has a lovely grapefruit scent that gives a pampering experience with every application, while also hydrating dry areas - no greasy feeling included. It brings the summer feeling even when the weather doesn’t play its part and leaves you with a glowy complexion without needing to head to the beach. The formula is lightweight and glides onto the skin with ease, absorbing quickly and smoothly into the body.
Look also to the body moisturiser of the same range.
Massage this oil into your skin before bed and let the calming and soothing essential oils help you to drift off into a sound slumber. It is enriched with the brand’s trademarked Tranquillity fragrance that combines English lavender, sweet basil and jasmine to create the restful scent.
But while it is packed with aromatherapy benefits, it’s kind to the skin too. As you apply onto the body, you will notice your skin feeling more hydrated and nourished and that is due to the moisturising combination of safflower oil, jojoba, rose and elderberry contained with the formulation. This is further enhanced by vitamin A and rosehip oil to treat your skin to regenerative properties.
In Neal’s Yard Remedies’ collections of beautifully-scented massage oils, there’s aromatherapy benefits aplenty. Each is designed to destress, boost your mood and help you unwind, while also treating the skin to powerhouse ingredients like rosehip oil, almond oil, argan oil and more.
Jojoba oil in particular is known for its hugely moisturising properties that is ideal for dry skin types, those with mature skin and even those with sensitivities. The brand has created this high-quality formula to be multi-purpose so that when you’re finished covering each of your limbs in the nourishing formula, you can continue on to your hair and scalp too.
It leaves a radiant, dewy finish without clogging pores or leading to excess sebum production - quite the opposite in fact.
Rodin olio lusso was founded with just one product: a face oil, Naturally, the brand is considered to be an authority in the world of skincare - and it is this very label that Jo Malone has called on for its latest limited-edition collection.
The two Estée Lauder-owned labels have created this body oil that is infused with essential oils to revitalise the skin from head to toe. The product contains evening primrose and sweet almond oils that are brimming with nourishing properties to leave your skin looking and feeling healthy, glowy and revitalised.
This oil from ESPA is a restorative product for both the body and mind. Offering a sensorial experience with every application, it has a lovely fragrance from the essential oils that have an uplifting and reviving effect. It contains peppermint, eucalyptus and rosemary that work in tandem to wake you up after a sleepless night and get you ready and rearing to start the day. There’s also avocado, sweet almond, and soybean oils so your skin is being treated to some seriously nourishing ingredients, while tantalising the senses at the same time.
You don’t need to have spent a week soaking up the sun rays in St Tropez to get that fresh from the beach glow. Summer Fridays has bottled the enviable radiant complexion and made it accessible all year round with this body oil.
It is a skincare product first and foremost so it’s packed with the nourishing cocktail of jojoba, macadamia, sunflower, and apricot kernel oils as well as vitamin E to protect against free radical damage. The formula hydrates and leaves skin feeling velvety soft.
The product has a beautiful addictive aroma too, with the fresh notes of almond, vanilla blossom and coconut. Dry and dull skin has met its match.
CBD is everywhere. It comes as a oral-drop supplement, in skincare and in drink form so it comes as no surprise that you’ll find the ubiquitous ingredient in your bodycare too. In balm form, it has been lauded for easing muscle pain and tension, and in oil, as is true for the OTO Balance body oil, it has anti-inflammatory and soothing benefits.
Alongside CBD, there’s also fragonia, helichrysum and chamomile blended within the oil to enhance the calming effects and also bring a dose of antioxidant goodness to protect your skin from environmental damage.
As with just about every product in the Diptyque repertoire, this product is luxury defined. Everything from the scent to the texture feels like a million bucks, and when applied to the skin, it’s the ultimate self-care experience. You can lather it all over the body and hair to douse in the protective avocado and urucum oils as well as bring the subtle but lovely scent of jasmine, saffron and ylang ylang. It’s light, has a spray applicator with a fine mist and you’ll feel soft, smooth and hydrated all over.
After a long, stressful day, treat yourself to the self-care ritual of this body oil. Put your feet up and coat yourself in the deep conditioning that this massage oil provides. If you can convince your loved one, partner or housemate to do a proper massage, well that’s all the better but a few spritzes of this product is all you need to feel Zen and push all your troubles away. It is infused with the spa-like concoction of chamomile, vetivert, and ylang ylang with calming properties and dries quickly so you can get all tucked up in bed in a matter of minutes. Divine.
By incorporating this a massage of this oil into your routine on a regular basis, you’ll be boosting microcirculation to encourage your complexion to look healthier from top to toe. The formula packs magnesium-rich kelp, omegas 6 and 9-rich microalgae, and red algae to soothe, tone and enrich the skin - all of which are naturally derived. The smell is beautiful and so is the texture - it’s light, smooth to apply and absorbs quickly.
Who has time to shower and moisturise, really? When time is tight (as it always seems to be on our watch), keep Bali Body's Shower Oil in your bathroom.
Designed to be used after soaping down, the blend of natural oils and antioxidants work to nourish and deeply hydrate the skin while you're still in the shower. Ideal for all skin types, just massage onto skin, paying particular attention to dry spots on knees, heels and elbows, and wash off to marvel at your healthy-looking, glowing skin.