Keep Your Skin Healthy During The Summer Months

Keeping your skin healthy should be a priority. Due to the fact skin is the largest and arguably most important organ in the human body. It helps us regulate body temperature and prevents lose of moisture, allows us to feel and provides us with a protective barrier against the elements and physical damage. All functions that are vital for staying alive and living a healthy and enjoyable life.

Being on the outside of our bodies, though, means our skin is particularly susceptible to harm. And when the sun is shining, it can suffer greatly if we don’t take action and protect it.

The sun damages our skin because of ultraviolet radiation. These short-wavelength light rays sit between visible light and X-rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, and are therefore high frequency and contain a lot of energy.

When these high energy light rays come into contact with the skin, they generate highly reactive free radicals. Excessive free radicals in the body — which are also caused by stress, pollution, cigarettes, bad diet, etc., — leads to cellular damage. When this happens in the skin, the consequence is everything from wrinkles to cancer.

Needless to say, we need to protect our skin in the summer months. Here are four products revered across the ages for keeping your skin healthy and protected when the summer sun is shining bright.

Aloe Vera Gel

The ancient Egyptians called aloe vera the plant of immortality, and since then it’s been hailed as one of the best skincare remedies around.

Whether its a dry and flaky scalp, sunburn, psoriasis, or an infection, aloe vera can help soothe and replenish your skin almost instantly. It’s powers come from its seventy-five different nutrients, including two healing and anti-inflammatory hormones, Auxin and Gibberellins, and a plethora of antioxidants including beta carotene and vitamin E and C. For keeping your skin healthy, use a pure aloe vera gel once or twice a day, and you’ll soon find out how it got its nickname.

Argan Oil

Believed to be one of the rarest oils in the world, argan oil is endemic to Morocco and has been used for centuries in treating a number of skin and hair conditions including slow growth, dryness, acne, and stretch marks.

Its benefits come from being an abundant source of vitamins and minerals, essential fatty-acids, and antioxidants that enrich as well as moisturise the skin. Due to its growing popularity, however, it’s important to make sure you find a product that is one hundred percent argan oil, and not a mix of low-quality, cheaper oils.

Tea Tree

Tea tree oil is not from the same source as the tea you drink every morning, but rather Melaleuca alternifolia — a native Australian plant that’s been cultivated for its many medicinal benefits for over a century.

When it comes to your skin, tea tree oil is a powerful moisturiser with potent antibacterial properties, allowing it to clean as well as nourish. This makes tea tree oil perfect for keeping your skin healthy and protected from bacteria when traveling or at the beach, and even better for maintaining grime and dirt free hair.

Skin Healthy Sun cream made in the UK

Sintra Naturals vegan mineral suncream is made in the UK from natural ingredients and is sun safe to SPF30. Skin experts recommended you use a broad-spectrum sun cream that protects from both UVA and UVB rays. Sintra naturals vegan mineral suncream will do just that, it’s also coral reef safe, and 10p of each sale will go to Marine conservation trust.

Features of Vegan Mineral Suncream

• Clinically tested by world famous laboratory
• Tested on both dark and light skin
• Coral reef safe with non nano zinc oxide
• No animal testing with sustainably sourced vegan ingredients
• Plastic free and 100% recyclable
• No white cast sun cream

How to use Vegan Mineral Suncream

• Apply sunscreen before going outdoors. It takes approximately 15 minutes for your skin to absorb the sunscreen and protect you.
• Use enough sunscreen. Most adults need about 1 ounce — to fully cover their body. Rub the sunscreen thoroughly into your skin.
• To maintain maximum effectiveness, sunscreen should be reapplied at least every 2 hours and directly after extended swimming or sweating.
• For sensitive skin, apply a small amount of the product to test before full use. Keep out of the eyes and broken or unhealthy skin.

See our full range of natural sun creams full of natural goodness all made in the UK and supplied in plastic free packaging!

About Snooty Catz

Are you new to Snooty Catz? We are a small UK independent business that loves to live ethically for both ourselves and our pets. This is why we stock a fabulous range of natural wellbeing products for both people and their pets. As well as ethically sourced homewares and eco gifts.

Snooty Catz is an ethical business, and deeply cares about the environment. So each order is sent in eco-friendly, plastic free packaging. We have also partnered with Ecologi and will plant one tree for every order placed. There’s a lot of good happening over here!

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