Is your body beach ready?  Hot fun in the summertime!  Let’s hope so.  You may not be the size you’d like to be but you surely can have the skin you’d like to see.

Becoming beach body ready is just one goal.  You’ll be able to accomplish many where your skin care needs are concerned.

Speaking of the beach … not only will you be looking for ways to protect and care for your skin, you’ll also be wanting to protect your health. COVID – 19 is the virus to contend with this summer. One of the scary things about it, is that there are carriers that don’t know they have it. This makes your beach visit one that should be well thought out.

Skipping the beach this year, create your own social distancing gatherings in your yards or on private ends of a park.

Guess What? Your Skin Still Needs to Be Summer Ready.

You can begin your black skin care body regimen with a full body scrub.  That’s right, you’ll want to remove all the dead skin cells from your entire body, from head to toe.

Massage your skin with really good body butter scrub. Preferably one made with Shea butter.  After an exfoliation treatment, your skin will welcome the comfort of a soothing body butter.

Body butters, especially those made with Shea Butter, help to lock the moisture into
your skin.  The best time to apply a body butter to your skin is after a bath or shower. Your skin is in a state of softness and the water temperature should have helped your pores to absorb any topical product that you might put on it.

What Happens To Your Beautiful Black 
Skin While Taking in the Sun?

The idea of Sun bathing should set off a series of thought waves about caring for your skin.  As a melanated person, the first thing you might want to consider is how you will care for your skin.

Your melanin can be a gift and a challenge all rolled up into one. Time in your yard and time at the beach are two different types of Sun bathing. Time at the beach can complicate things at times.  You’ve got the sun and the salt water.

Did I say the sun?  Your time spent in the sun should be limited whether it’s your back yard or the beach.
You know how you see black people that have been in the sun so long that they look
gray?  That’s too much exposure and the time spent might only have been 30 minutes. 30 minutes of sun at its highest peak is too much exposure.

Mid-morning and late afternoon to early evening are the best times for sun exposure.  A sunscreen should always be one of the items that you bring with you to the beach or your sun bathing environment. Whether it’s your roof top, fire escape or your living room, it’s all good.

Can You Actually Get Too Much Sun?

Did you know that too much sun can cause hyperpigmentation of your skin?  Dark spots, uneven skin tone and freckles are just a few of the signs of too much sun.

Because of your melanin, you could be experiencing trauma and not know it.  So limit your time in the sun but remember to keep your skin moisturized and exfoliated.  This will enable you to keep the dead skin cells away and have skin smooth as a baby’s bottom.

That’s it for this week. As always …

Dedicated to Your Beauty,

Juliette Samuel,
Esthetician/Author/Publisher,
Nyraju Skin Care