Our faces often get most of the attention, but skincare doesn’t stop at the neck. With the warmer weather meaning your limbs are potentially seeing the light of day for the first time in months, now is the perfect time to give your body some much needed moisture and hydration. While we all know the key to silky smooth skin is moisturising, sometimes even the best body creams and lotions aren’t enough to save our skin.
Fortunately, there’s a simple hack to banish scaly skin forever. Best of all, it only requires two products; both of which you likely already own.
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The secret to baby soft skin? Body lotion and oil. Though many people use one or the other, body moisturiser and oil work synergistically to simultaneously moisturise and hydrate the skin. Lotion works to penetrate the skin and deliver hydration, while oil is able to lock in moisture due to its occlusive properties.
So for baby soft skin in under a minute, simply dispense a generous portion of body lotion into your hand, add a squirt of oil, then mix them together before applying to your skin. For best results, try this straight out of the shower on slightly damp skin.
Though this hack will work with any body lotion and oil combo, it’s no secret that not all skincare products were created equally. The best formulas are created with skin-loving ingredients, designed to hydrate, repair, tone, and potentially even exfoliate your skin. To help you put your best limbs forward this season, we’ve rounded up the most effective body lotions and oils on the market.
The best body lotions for dry skin
Enbacci Complete Body Firming Lotion
If you’re looking for a body lotion that performs double duty, the Enbacci Complete Body Firming Lotion is the one for you. Lightweight and rapidly absorbed, this lotion uses saponaria pumila stem cells to enhance skin elasticity and firmness, while providing nourishment and hydration.
Grown Alchemist Body Cream
Antioxidants from wheatgerm extract and almond, grapeseed, and rosehip oils help condition and soothe dry skin, while sea butter and jojoba oil work together to provide intense hydration. Perfect for very dry skin needing an extra boost!
Bangn Body Firming Lotion
Bangn Body combines intense moisturisation from shea butter with anti-inflammatory green coffee extract and skin brightening pineapple fruit oil in this face and body lotion.
The best body oils for dry skin
Peggy Sue Body + Bath Oil
Coconut and grapefruit oils provide the skin with vitamins and antioxidants while jojoba oil mimics the skin’s natural oil properties to provide deep hydration and plump the skin. Plus, the vanilla and grapefruit scent is beautifully relaxing!
RAWKANVAS Remedy Calming Hemp Body Oil
Rapidly-absorbed, non-comedogenic hemp oil delivers moisture and essential fatty acids to the skin, while ylang ylang, bergamot, and sweet orange essential oils provide a calming scent.
Grown Alchemist Body Treatment Oil
A potent blend of tamanu oil, seabuckthorn berry, and rosehip oil deliver antioxidants and essential fatty acids to the skin, working to improve age spots, stretch marks, and scars, leaving skin feeling soft and supple. The scent of ylang ylang, bergamot, and sandalwood essential oils provide an uplifting, stress-relieving aroma.
Words by Arabella Johnson
Feature image courtesy of Mariano Vivanco for Vogue Brazil
