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Skin Care Routine: 4 Steps to Having a Glowing Skin

Tomer Farkas — Wed, 30 May 2018 09:53:27 +0000

No matter how much of a busy day you are having, you should always find time to take care of your skin. This will not only help you reveal its natural beauty, but it will also help you relax after a long day at work! While there are tons of beauty products you can choose from, it is very important that you know how and when to use them.

Here is a very simple 4-step skin care routine that you can follow for a perfectly clear and glowing skin!

1. Cleansing

Cleansing your face is the first and most important step of the routine. You should repeat it twice a day – in the morning and evening. If you are wearing makeup, make sure you remove it first with a special makeup remover such as hydrophilic oil or micellar water. We cannot highlight enough how bad going to bed with makeup on is for your skin!

Once removing your makeup, follow with a water-based cleanser to clean any further impurities or oil-residue. At Belle Azul, we recommend using our Dual Facial Cleanser, which offers a 2 in 1 cleansing solution to gently detoxify and exfoliate your skin. Finish off by drying your face carefully with a soft towel. Do not rub as rubbing can cause irritation!

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2. Toning

Toning your skin is important to remove dead cells and cleanse your pores in depth. This step goes just after cleansing and is also to be repeated both in the morning and evening. Choosing the right toner for you largely depends on the type and needs of your skin.

We advise you to check out our Pure Swiss Hyaluronic Serum, a rejuvenating facial serum designed to give your skin deep hydration and preserve its youthful look for a long time. Hyaluronic acid is often renowned for its ability to retain water, which makes it the perfect solution for a more refreshed-looking, plumper skin!

3. Moisturising

Moisturising should be the third step in your daily skin care routine. Applying a facial cream on right after toning will create a protective barrier for your skin while providing it with additional hydration and nourishment. Prior to this, you can also apply an eye cream should you wish to target the delicate area around your eyes.

We invite you to have a look at our Bio Smart Range, a collection of moisturising products based on Apple Stem Cells, developed specifically to boost the skin’s natural regeneration and prevent the appearance of lines and wrinkles.

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4. Sunscreen

Wearing sunscreen is essential, even if you are popping your nose out for just a couple of minutes. It really is the most effective way to protect your skin against dryness, premature ageing, and many other unpleasant skin conditions including cancer! You should remember to put it on even if the other beauty products you used contain SPF.

This year, to protect your pretty face from the destructive effects of the sun, we have developed the Belle Azul Facial Sun Cream with SPF 50+. It is designed to give you a secure protection against UV rays while leaving you with an irresistible matte tan. Definitely a must-have in your beauty routine, especially in the summer!

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How to Keep Your Skin Hydrated in the Summer?

Tomer Farkas — Wed, 23 May 2018 13:22:10 +0000

Summer is just around the corner and surely, most of you are excited to put away your warm jackets and jump in your bathing suits! We, at Belle Azul, can’t wait either! However, the summer does also bring with it a lot of potential damage to our skin, sucking out the life of it and making it look dry and dull.

Knowing how to keep your skin hydrated in the hot weather is extremely important for retaining its fresh and glowing appearance!

Why is Skin Hydration Important?

Every little cell, muscle and organ in our body needs water to function properly. As incredible as it sounds, more than half of our body is made of water! Our skin plays a crucial role in retaining all this moisture, so it’s important that we take extra care to nourish and protect it.

Hydrating your skin is one of the best things you can do to maintain its young and healthy appearance. Given it has the water it needs, your skin will always play in your favour! It will act as a barrier to nasty toxins and bacteria, and will carry crucial nutrients to your body cells.

On the other hand, neglecting skin hydration might make your skin more sensitive and susceptible to germs. Lack of moisture often results in dry, itchy and red skin, it could even speed up the process of ageing, encouraging the appearance of wrinkles and lines!

What Causes the Skin to Dehydrate?

Skin dehydration can basically be a result of two different case scenarios: insufficient water intake or excessive water loss. Now, there are several factors, internal and external, that may lead to those two scenarios. Here are some of the most common ones:

High temperature
Lack of humidity
Strong UV radiation
Aggressive cleaning methods or strong chemical products
Intensive exercise
Ageing
Drinking alcohol, coffee and smoking

What Are the Symptoms of Dehydrated Skin?

Ok, you are now familiar with the contributors to skin dehydration. But how do you know if your skin is dehydrated? These are some of the symptoms you might notice, which can help you identify skin dehydration and take immediate measures:

Rough skin with limited elasticity
Redness
Peeling
Coarse thick skin
Cracks that might occasionally bleed

How to Keep Your Skin Hydrated?

With the summer approaching and the sun rays becoming more and more powerful, the risk of skin dehydration is growing. Therefore, it’s imperative that you know how to protect yourself from it and retain the elasticity and radiance of your skin. You don’t want to end up with dry and dull skin, exhausted from the sun, do you? Just follow these tips and you can thank us later!

Tip 1. Drink plenty of water

You have probably heard this a million times, but please let us highlight its importance once again! Drinking water is one of the most straightforward and easiest ways of keeping your skin hydrated. It is especially important in the summer when your body tends to lose a lot of fluid due to sweating.

Same happens in the gym, while running like crazy on the treadmill and working hard to get that booty ready for the beach! Don’t forget to rehydrate after your workout! The water will help you get rid of waste products from your muscles, speed up recovery time and improve your flexibility!

Tip 2. Maintain a well-balanced diet

While it is very important to drink loads of water, it can be easy to fall behind your daily water intake target. Eating foods rich in water, can help you get back on track! What’s more, they will even keep you full on fewer calories, which could save you the guilt of chucking down a big, fat chocolate brownie!

Fruits and veggies provide tons of benefits for the body, supplying it with all the necessary nutrients such as vitamin C, E, zinc, etc. Remember your mum always used to tell you… “Five-a-day keeps the doctor away”? Well, guess what… it’s much easier to eat fruits and veggies in the summer. What’s better than a cold, sweet watermelon on a hot summer day?

Tip 3. Moisturise regularly

Moisturising plays a major role in keeping your skin hydrated during day and night time. In this respect, hyaluronic acid holds the key to a smooth and flawless skin. In fact, your own cells produce it naturally to maintain your moisture levels, but due to environmental causes and ageing, these levels may experience a fall.

To compensate for this, skin care experts often recommend using moisturisers rich in hyaluronic acid. At Belle Azul, we advise you to check out our Pure Swiss Collection, which is based on hyaluronic acid. You might want to have a look particularly at our Pro Hydrating Sorbet, very light moisturiser, perfect for the summer, and our Hyaluronic Acid Serum, an advanced solution for extra skin hydration and firmness.

Tip 4. Use sun protection

During the hot summer days, you need to take extra care to protect your skin from the damaging sun rays! Using a reliable sunscreen with the right sun protection factor (SPF) could save you from so many troubles such as sunburn, premature skin ageing, or even cancer! Generally, SPF varies between 15 and 50, and lighter-skin people often need a higher protection factor.

Before you go on your next summer holiday, make sure to check out our new Belle Azul Facial Sun Cream with SPF 50+, a high-performing sun lotion. It will not only give you a strong sun protection, but it will also leave your skin with a beautiful matte finish! Don’t forget to re-apply it after swimming or drying yourself with the towel!

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7 Beauty Secrets That Every Girl Should Know

Tomer Farkas — Tue, 08 May 2018 11:21:58 +0000

Have you ever wondered how Hollywood stars always look so flawless in spite of age and other factors? At Belle Azul, we are dedicated to making every girl feel like they have just stepped off the red carpet!

Our beauty experts have come together to reveal their top 7 beauty secrets to help you achieve that marvelous celebrity look!

1. Skin Care is More Important Than Makeup

This one is a bit obvious, isn’t it? Focusing on your skin care in your daily routine, you can not only reduce the amount of makeup you need, but also make it look better on your skin! Skin care products often contain essential active ingredients that nourish your skin and make it look healthier and more radiant.

Caring for your skin enables you to prevent problems before they appear. You wouldn’t have to use tons of makeup to hide your acne. Rather, you would be able to enjoy perfectly clear skin with a slight, gentle touch of makeup to highlight your unique characteristics. The best thing is that if you don’t know how to apply makeup, you can always go fully natural!

2. The Goal of Makeup is to Highlight, Not to Hide

While makeup is often used to cover imperfections that we might be ashamed of, its true objective is to highlight certain features that make us proud. Makeup should be worn with confidence, while proving to the world that you are still comfortable in your own skin.

There is no need to hide behind tons of layers of makeup (foundation, concealer, highlighter, eyeshadows, eyeliner, eyebrow pencil etc.) to feel beautiful. The key to natural beauty is… to just keep it simple: with a bit of mascara and a nice lipstick on, you might as well impress everyone!

3. Beauty Products Should Be Stored Correctly

We all know that having our beauty items all stored together in the bathroom can be very pleasant on the eyes. At least, that’s how they always keep their products in the movies and it always looks very neat and tidy, doesn’t? Unfortunately, this shouldn’t be the case in real life.

Storing skincare and makeup products in the bathroom is not always a good idea, as the warm and humid atmosphere often makes them expire more quickly. In fact, some items need to be kept in the fridge, as per instructions. Don’t waste your beauty products just because they look nice together!

4. Showering with Hot Water is Bad for Your Skin

Taking a long hot shower before jumping into bed can be very relaxing and rewarding. It works amazing to relieve stress and soothe muscle stiffness. Unfortunately though for all hot showers lovers, hot water is not so beneficial for your skin…

Hot showers and baths can often dry out the skin, causing redness, itching and even peeling. They dehydrate your body and steal away essential nutrients that keep your skin healthy and glowing. Next time you shower, turn down the water temperature!

5. Applying Multiple Masks at Once Can Bring You Multiple Benefits

Facial masks are a great addition to our beauty routine, allowing us to optimise our results. You can find tons of masks with different goals: detoxifying, repairing, nourishing, illuminating, etc. What if we told you that you can combine a few of them at the same time to achieve optimal results?

Applying multiple masks at once allows you to target different areas of your face, thus creating a custom mask to meet the needs of each facial area. With this in mind, at Belle Azul we have designed the 360 Mask Collection, a flexible kit containing 3 different types of masks to deeply hydrate and detoxify your skin while preserving its youth.

6. You Are Not Too Young for Anti-Ageing Products

Talking about youth, being in your twenties, you are probably sceptical about using anti-ageing products. Why would you if you don’t have any wrinkles or lines yet? Anti-ageing products are for mature women, who suffer from signs of ageing, right?

Well, not exactly. While anti-ageing products are most often than not used by women over 40, they can also be very beneficial for the younger ones. Starting to use such beauty products in your twenties can help you effectively prevent early signs of ageing while retaining the young beautiful look of your skin for longer.

7. Your Hair Needs More Care Than You Think

Having thick and shiny hair like the beautiful models that you often see on the TV adverts requires some effort. Your hair tends to be very sensitive when it’s wet, so you should treat it with extra care. Drying it with a towel or blow-drying when the hair is too wet can cause breakage and frizz. Same goes for brushing – better use your fingers to detangle it when it’s wet!

Using a heat protectant when you expose your hair to heat is a must. You can check out our Moroccan Hair Serum, which has been developed specifically to protect from heat damage and control frizz. To nourish and strengthen your hair in depth, it is also recommended that you do deep conditioning treatments at least once a week, using a leave-in mask. Treat your hair the way it deserves to be treated and we promise it will be worth it!

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