Summer Glow Up Beauty Products

Summer is the time to swim, go for a hike or bike ride, soak up the sun safely on your skin and body and become confident with who you are. The following beauty and wellness products can help create a confidence glow.

Aiming to be the most influential beauty brands in e-commerce in 2021, The Gentle Beauty offers a line of beauty products to enhance natural beauty and create glam stars who enjoy going full-out on their makeup. Their cruelty-free, clean, multi-use beauty products are lightweight, and their super pigmented gloss for lips offers a watermelon scent. Apply and it dries quickly for a sheer, all day matte finish. You can also use the lip tint as a blush. Make sure to blend one at a time before it dries quickly. Check them out on TikTok and Instagram @thegentle.beauty. Products start at $10.

TerraVita offers innovative topicals and bath salts that protect summer skin from sunburns, and soothe sore muscles with healing-plant based ingredients. These products not only hydrate, but they help the body’s inflammatory response to fight sunburns. Ingredients include Mahuka Honey to sooth and replenish dry or damaged skin; Aloe Vera for reducing redness and inflammation; Coconut Milk to help maintain skin elasticity and CBD to fight free radicals and promote healthy skin. My favorites for an overall skin glow include:

TerraVita Moisturizing Body Butter with 500MG CBD and Manuka Honey; TerraVita Max Relief for natural pain relief and offering a deep penetrating cooling sensation; TerraVita Bath Salts formulated with magnesium rich Epsom Salts to help soothe sore muscles. The Dead Sea salt and Broad Spectrum CBD (THC-free) unique blend of botanicals and essential oils helps speed up muscle recovery and TerraVita Hydrating Lip Balm combines Vitamin E, Shea Butter, Mango Seed Butter, Manuka Honey and essential oils to rejuvenate, soothe and protect lips.

Award-winning Naturally London’s handcrafted and botanical-based foot, hand, and nail-care products are uniquely designed by their female, black, and veteran owner and founder, Chrissy Cabrera. Not only is she a certified aromatherapist, she formulate each Naturally London product with ingredients to promote holistic benefits. Her foot + hand care = self-care. Each product is formulated with non-toxic, organic-certified ingredients, and offers pleasing unique scent combinations.DIY Spa Pedicure kit includes:

Exhale Foot Soak or Refuge Foot Soak – an antioxidant-rich foot soak to draw out impurities from the skin and melt off your stresses like butter. Moisturizing Foot Polish – an award-winning salt-based scrub that will buff away dead skin, immediately moisturizing your new skin thanks to nourishing ingredients such as avocado, jojoba and Vitamin E. Healing Foot balm – a super-moisturizing balm designed to soften the driest of heels and hard calluses by using beeswax that gently glides over the skin to lock in softness.

Los Angeles based AMASS makes clean botanics to keep one clean and hydrated. The Four Thieves liquid soap offers the essence of cinnamon, allspice, clove and eucalyptus. The Pseudo Citrine Botanic lotion offers blends nutrient-rich, fast-absorbing emollients of sweet almond and coconut oils to deeply nourish both hands and body. A bright aroma of lemon and zippy ginger are mellowed by milky sandalwood, green tea, and lavender. Grapefruit and cedarwood are reminiscent of puckering citrus and soft pine. It’s silky smooth to spread on and this lotion keeps skin supple while smelling great. Developer Rick Caruso announced his lifestyle enhancement property partnership portfolio has partnered with Los Angeles based AMASS to bring the clean botanic brand’s personal care and spirits line to Caruso’s The Americana at Brand, The Grove, Rosewood Miramar Beach and Palisades Village.

MixX Laboratory is a Leaping Bunny certified company. The products were created free of animal testing at all stages of product development. I like the Hyaluronic Acid Essence – a great gentle moisturizing serum. Nano Hyaluronic Acid particles help my skin achieve all-day hydration. The Idebenone Essence is an antioxidant that helps my skin defend against UV rays, while firming my skin and diminishing the fine lines, wrinkles, and dark spots.