Back-to-School Skincare: Quick and Effective Natural Solutions

A new school year can be overwhelming; on day one, we get bombarded with new classes, changing friendships, new routines, and so much more. It’s no wonder taking care of our skin might not be at the top of the priority list. But a good skincare routine makes a huge difference in how we look, feel, and show up for life. A busy schedule doesn’t have to mean skin neglect.

Our BodyBoom team has put together some effective solutions to help you maintain healthy, glowing skin all school-year-long, regardless of how busy you get. Whether you’re dealing with breakouts, dryness, or just want to keep your skin looking its best, these tips are for you.

Essentials for Your Best Skin

Oily, acne-prone, dry – no matter what’s going on with your skin, these essentials are…essential.

1. Eat Healthy Foods: Skin reflects what we eat. A balanced diet rich in fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains provides the essential nutrients your skin needs. Foods high in antioxidants, like berries and leafy greens, can help protect your skin from damage.

2. Stay Hydrated: Drinking plenty of water is one of the simplest and most effective ways to maintain healthy skin. Aim for at least eight glasses a day to keep your skin hydrated and to help flush out toxins.

3. Get Enough Sleep: Your body repairs itself while you sleep, including your skin. Aim for 7-9 hours of sleep each night to allow your skin to rejuvenate and stay clear. Skip the late nights and give your skin some “me” time.

4. Wear Sunscreen: Never skip sunscreen, even on cloudy days or during the winter. UV rays cause skin damage and premature aging any time of year. Choose a broad-spectrum sunscreen with at least SPF 30 and reapply throughout the day if you're spending lots of time outdoors. That means slathering on some sunscreen before soccer practice, tennis practice, or softball practice; whatever you’re practicing, practice savvy skincare first.

5. Keep Your Hands Off Your Face: Touching your face can transfer dirt, oil, and bacteria from your hands to your skin, leading to breakouts and irritation. Try to keep your hands away from your face as much as possible. Just. Don’t. Touch. It.

6. Don’t Over-Exfoliate: While exfoliating is important to remove dead skin cells, doing it too often can irritate your skin and strip away natural oils. Aim to exfoliate no more than 1-2 times a week with a gentle, all-natural product. If you’re scrubbing every day – you know who you are – then you’re doing more harm than good. Resist the urge to scrub, scrub, scrub, and take a gentler approach.

7. Stay Active: Regular physical activity increases blood flow, which helps nourish skin cells and keep them healthy. Exercise also helps reduce stress, which can be a factor in skin problems.

These healthy habits are good for your skin, good for your body, and good for your mind.

But What About Products?

Let’s face it: you could do all the things on the above list faithfully and still fall short of your skin goals. Sometimes it takes more than good sleep and good food to overcome the challenges posed to your skin by your genes, the environment, and other…stuff. In other words, sometimes your skin needs a boost from good products.

Here are four Body Boom products made to help you get and keep glowing skin:

1. Wildly Moisturizing Body Cocktail: This lotion for dehydrated skin is perfect for dealing with the dry or dehydrated skin that often comes with back-to-school season. Packed with nourishing ingredients like avocado oil, tiger grass extract, and vitamin E, this ultra-nourishing body cream improves your skin’s texture and tone and protects it from environmental nasties. Arms, legs, bellies – put this lotion anywhere you have skin.

2. Superstar Make-up Removal Butter: If you’re going to get plenty of sleep and take care of your skin, your bedtime routine needs to be quick and easy, which means you need a product that just slides your makeup off. Enter BodyBoom’s Superstar Makeup Removal Butter. Our cruelty-free makeup remover features shea, cocoa, and mango seed butter, along with other vegan ingredients that dissolve your makeup – even the waterproof kind – without clogging your pores or causing other problems. Bonus: the light candy scent will be your favorite.

3. Seboom Mattifying and Calming Facial Cleansing Gel: Cleansing with this all-natural gel is a must for your evening skincare ritual. It’s made from natural, vegan ingredients like zesty lemon extract, moisturizing betaine, and salicylic acid that work hard to target acne and boost skin clarity.

4. Seboom Mattifying and Normalizing Face Mask: This vegan face mask combines kaolin clay and zinc oxide to absorb excess oil, unclog pores, calm inflammation, and put you in control of breakouts. Antioxidants like green tea powder wash away the bad stuff and fight off the drying effects of blemishes to leave your skin replenished and revitalized. Slow down and give you and your skin a much-needed relaxing treatment one to three times a week with this all-natural mask.

That’s just four products out of our amazing selection of vegan, organic, clean skin care products. Our goal? To help you have skin you love with no filters. When your skin is happy, you’re happy. And we’re happy because we’ve done our job.

Ready, Set, Glow!

Back to school – love it or hate it, one thing’s certain: life will be better if you don’t have to worry about your skin. Smart skincare doesn’t have to be complicated or time-consuming. With a few simple habits and the right products, you can show up on the busiest school days feeling confident in the skin you’re in.

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Here’s to a great school year and beautiful skin.