Pamper Yourself To Renewed Skin

by Judie Bizzozero

Fall means bonfires, football games and bundling up in old familiar sweaters to keep us warm and toasty. As Old Man Winter begins to rear his ugly head, it is imperative to pay special attention to our skin as it will experience a loss of moisture and essential oils and become dull-looking without the proper care.

Why not gear up for fall by pampering your skin to help renew and rejuvenate it throughout the next few months? Did you know that the makers of the same indoor tanning products you've been using all year long also make some great bath, body and spa products formulated specifically for you?

From body scrubs to body mists, from rehydrating lotions to spa therapies, there is something for everyone. By incorporating a daily skincare routine, you'll begin to notice a renewed you in a matter of weeks.

Start by preparing your skin with a wonderful blast of salt scrubs that slough off dead skin cells, revitalize your skin's appearance and promote a healthy looking radiance.

Next, indulge your skin with a luxurious bath or shower with one of your favorite bath and shower gels--rich with delicious fragrances and moisturizers--to nourish your thirsty skin.

After your bath or shower use a high-quality daily moisturizer to nourish your skin. Moisturizers do just what their name implies--add moisture to the skin and keep it soft and supple. Use them every day and apply to your skin when it is still damp from the shower or toner. Remember that putting moisturizer on dry skin is of little use because it is not very easily absorbed.

If you've just finished tanning or exercising, but don't have the time to shower, treat yourself to a spritzer to soothe, cool, refresh and softly hydrate the skin while delivering a blast of fresh fragrance. As always, if you are tanning indoors, use a high-quality tanning lotion purchased at your local tanning salon.

Putting On The Spritz

John Abaté International™'s Body Mist is lightly scented to soothe and cool as it refreshes and softly hydrates your skin. Its unique, rejuvenating mixture of ginseng, aloe vera and copper helps maintain a longer-lasting tan, while a special odor-inhibiting formula creates a shower-fresh feeling all day.

Body Mist can be chilled to provide extra refreshment after warm weather activities, exercising or tanning. The 7.5-ounce bottle with mister delivers a perfect spritz of freshness whether it's applied after bathing or to help squelch cigarette or cigar smoke odor on hands or clothing. JA Body Mist has a suggested retail price of $10.95.

JA also offers its Exfoliating Salt Glow. Formulated with a blend of purifying sea salts and nourishing essential oils--including macadamia, avocado, lemongrass and soybean--Exfoliating Salt Glow is recommended to be used in the shower once or twice a week.

Exfoliating Salt Glow is infused with aromatherapeutic peppermint, spearmint and cedarwood oils and provides your skin with the pampering it deserves. The 14-ounce jar retails for $25.95.

Gimme Some Color

Supre helps you get through the winter months with a full spectrum of a tan and the energy of shimmer with its Colour line of tanning products. Supre's premiere line of shimmering tan maximizers, flash bronzers and self-tanners elevate the skin's natural, rich color. Look for the Colour Counter Display featuring art and emotion at your local tanning salon. The Colour line is available in 7-ounce tubes that retail for $38 and .75 packettes that retail for $6.

A Soothing Solution

California Tan invites you to try its Soothing SunHemp, an intensive Step-3 body moisturizing treatment that helps boost your tanning results while moisturizing and calming stressed skin.

Soothing SunHemp contains a tint, which gives a burst of instant color and evens out skin tone. VITATAN™ PLUS with Ty-Rol helps boost tanning results, while hemp seed oil offers intense moisturizing benefits. Plant extracts provide soothing, calming benefits for stressed skin and senses. The 12-ounce bottle retails for $17.

Relief In A BreeZe

BreeZe Products introduces After BreeZe Skin Saver, a revolutionary new product that contains Calendula--a pure botanical extract used to treat burn victims in hospitals.

Specially formulated to treat sunburn, it also contains aloe vera, lanolin, cucumber and oils extracted from eucalyptus and tea trees. Skin Saver is a must-have for outdoor--and less-likely indoor--overexposure. It's also great for treating windburn and chapped skin. The 8-ounce tube retails for $19.95.

A Day At The Spa

Body Invest invites you to pamper yourself with its new body and bath care line--Marine Spa. Designed to provide the perfect nautical experience, the line has fresh sea fragrance, as well as vitamin-rich seaweed extracts and mineral-rich sea salts.

Entice your senses with Bahama Breeze's citrus clean scent, Drift & Dream's ginger essence or Cool Mint Sorbet. Each fragrance is available in a moisturizing shower gel and hydrating body spritz. These 8-ounce products retail for $9.95.

For a little something extra, try the Smooth Sailing Shave Créme, available in an 8-ounce bottle and retailing for $14.95, and Sea Coral Salt Scrub, a 10-ounce jar retailing for $11.95.

Rehydrate That Tan

After a long day in the sun reach for Sun Ergoline's Bermuda Gold, an exclusive line of rehydrating lotions for indoor tanners. For the fastest, deepest tan ever, Bermuda Gold's Tanning Accelerator has Maximum Tyrosine that jumpstarts the tanning process. The maximum tyrosine interacts with melanocytes to help create melanin and a natural tan. The core of this unique formula consists of super rehydrating rose hip to keep your skin hydrated while tanning.

Bermuda Gold's Rose Hip Aloe Rehydrator After Exposure Lotion is formulated with essential natural oils and pure aloe vera gel. Daily use restores moisture balance in your skin, rehydrates the basal cell area, minimizes the appearance of wrinkles and keeps skin soft, supple and tan.

The products are available in 8-ounce bottles and 2-ounce Bermuda Bullets.

The products featured above can be found in your professional tanning salon and are ideal for helping maintain proper skincare, whether you tan indoors, outdoors or not at all.