YOUR 5-STEP ROUTINE: HOW TO GET GLOWING SKIN
How can we define great skin? At L’OCCITANE, we believe it's reaching YOUR skin’s full potential. It’s about how to get the best from it, regardless of all the lifestyle, hormonal, and personal challenges your skin can face. Using our beauty skincare range, you can make your skin feel soothed and fresh all day long. Read further to discover how to get glowing skin.
"Hi everyone! I’m Sasha and I’ve been working with my L’OCCITANE family for 8 years now. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every second of it and have remained with the brand for so long because, I really love their ethics, commitments and values. We support biodiversity for our planet, recycling for our future, support for our producers, and investment in women’s free enterprise, so I am truly proud to be a part of this!
So, let’s discover together how you can achieve great skin and boost your skin confidence…”
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How Your Environment Impacts Your Skin's Natural Glow
“First up, lifestyle of course plays a big factor in your skin's health. Low humidity, dry heated air, lack of water intake, and external aggressors can all play a part in making your skin look a little dull, uneven, and textured. Whatever your external habits, ensure you counter-act them – for example, if you like to have your heating on high, make sure you’re keeping your skin moisturised. If you are very active, then drinking plenty of water is vital to replace the fluids you’re losing in sweat, which in turn will reduce enlarged pores. No matter what your lifestyle entails, make sure you bear in mind the basics in protecting your skin.”
How Your Shower Temperature Affects Your Skin Health
Taking care of your skin starts with how you shower. Our L'OCCITANE experts recommend showering under warm water instead of hot, as hot showers can strip the skin of its natural oils, leaving it dry and irritated. A good practice is checking the water temperature with your wrist to ensure it's comfortably warm. This approach helps to maintain the skin's moisture barrier, keeping it healthy and hydrated after showering.
L’OCCITANE's Recommended Beauty Routine for Glowing Skin
“Now when it comes to your beauty products, it’s important to choose a routine you will easily make a habit of. Constantly changing your beauty routine or products can actually irritate your skin. With this in mind, I am going to talk you through the products that I personally find to be the crème de la crème in achieving great skin, an even skin tone, minimised pores, and help you achieve glowing skin, and then it’s up to you how many you incorporate into your daily routine!”
1. Double-Cleanse for a Deeper Clean
The first and most important step is always to cleanse properly. For make-up and SPF wearers, a ‘double-cleanse’ is recommended, which means first using a gentle make-up remover such as our Cleansing Milk Facial Make-up Remover (infused with honey and fig milk) or our lmmortelle Precious Cleansing Oil if you prefer an oily texture. As your second step, either repeat using the same cleanser, or use a separate gel-based cleanser if your skin is on the combination/oily side, such as my personal favourite the Aqua Réotier Water Gel Cleanser, which provides a refreshing burst of hydration that leaves your skin feeling comfortable, clean, and fresh.
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Shea Cleansing Cream
A rich and creamy extra-gentle cleanser infused with shea extract and soothing orange blossom floral water.
Immortelle Precious Cleansing Oil
Ideal for all skin types this gentle make-up remover is infused with anti-ageing Immortelle and soothing Calendula.
Immortelle Precious
Cleansing Foam
A gentle face cleanser that lifts away impurities and leaves skin clean, soft and comfortable.
2. Prepare Your Skin with a Toner
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Now, toners are an often-overlooked step but it really makes a difference to your skin. A toner is designed to prep your skin for optimum absorption of other products, as well as being that first layer of light hydration. Our Immortelle Essential Water is a gentle and effective toner that contains no alcohol or astringents. Simply sweep it over the skin using a re-useable cotton pad after cleansing, or at any time of the day when you want to quickly refresh your skin.
4. Apply a Face Serum Before Moisturising
After you’ve exfoliated, cleansed, and toned, a serum is your next step to great skin. Serums are the water-based counterpart of their matching moisturiser, which means you have all the concentrated benefits and extracts of your chosen product range, but without the oil/cream base. This step targets the lower levels of the skin; serums have a finer molecule composition and can therefore sink in deeper. Again for a real luminous and even skin tone, our Reine Blanche Illuminating Serum is a perfect choice. It's super light and doesn’t feel heavy under a moisturiser.
5. Complete Your Routine with a Hydrating Moisturiser
Of course, the step which most people have as their bare basic is a good moisturiser. Dry skin will look tired and dull, so the key to achieving that glow really depends on wrapping up your skincare routine with a good moisturiser. Seeing as serums are water-based, it's good to put a cream or oil over the top to seal in and protect the upper layers of the skin, while the serum does its work down below. At night I am an avid user of the divine oil; I find I wake up with a healthy glow that really boosts my confidence when I see my reflection in the morning! But for the day, we have many different moisturisers to choose from depending on your skin type, from rich and comforting shea butter, to the light-textured and illuminating Reine Blanche (which, for a glowing complexion is a must have!).
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