Creams, oils, scrubs… How to enjoy the sun all summer long without damaging your skin?

Juliette Moreau Alvarez 7:55 p.m., July 07, 2022

Who has never wanted to show off their beautiful tan when they come home from vacation, only to end up covering their arms in shame because of nasty sunburns?

Experience the injustice of looking like a crayfish after having covered yourself with sunscreen?

Coming back to the office with too dry skin after being exposed to the sun's rays for an entire week?

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, Europe 1 beauty expert Maud Ravier lists all the products you should have in your beach bag to avoid sun damage to your skin.

"You can sunbathe while keeping very beautiful skin!"

Be on the lookout for the condition of your skin

To know if your skin is healthy, and thus prepare your routine, you must first assess your sun capital.

“It is unfortunately not like a cell, it does not regenerate”, explains Maud Ravier.

Hence the importance of pampering your skin!

There are plenty of little signs that show the state of your skin.

"You have to check if you have small white spots or, on the contrary, brown spots", explains the expert at the microphone of Europe 1. "Look if you have trouble making melanin, and if you have stopped tanning ."

Maud Ravier repeats it: "These are little tricks to look at that make you say, be careful, you may have already started your sun capital well."

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"Sun = aging skin", warns the columnist.

To avoid premature aging, only one solution: moisturize the skin again and again.

"Dehydrated skin is skin that spots hyper-pigmentation, withers, stiffness and wrinkles."

And dull skin, less susceptible to sunburn, is not exempt from daily hydration!

"We must not say that dark skin is safe. Thick skin, with deep wrinkles, is also affected by the sun", insists the expert.

Because even if the damage is not visible, the sun causes oxidative stress and alters the cells.

Forcing your skin to renew itself

After taking stock of your skin, you have to take care of it.

"The basis is to make scrubs", specifies the expert at the microphone of Europe 1. "It is the best anti-aging that exists."

A perfect sidekick to prevent the skin from becoming too wrinkled.

"You will force the fibroblasts to manufacture collagen, elastin and therefore a large base of subcutaneous protection."

After removing all the dead skin, you have to cuddle your new skin.

To avoid drying out, Maud River favors essential cosmetic products: nourishing oils and creams.

"As well as protecting your skin, you'll also be moisturizing it."

Her essential: "The Oh My Cream oil, which is vegetable and above all has clean filters!"

A product that respects both the skin and the environment.

Little extra: "You can also use it to protect the hair."

They must also be hydrated to avoid the famous straw on the head and a color that turns, forcing in extreme cases to cut everything.

For athletes, or pretty people who want to wear their make-up on the beach, there is a miracle product.

"Too few people know that there are invisible mists", informs the beauty expert on Europe 1. "In index 50, it's absolutely brilliant, and it avoids having greasy substances on the skin."

Choosing the right sunscreen

To protect yourself from UV rays, there is of course the essential sunscreen.

A real summer puzzle: choosing your sunscreen in the face of the huge range on the market.

For Maud Ravier, "effectiveness is not the only requirement when choosing your cream": "There are still too many preservatives or filters which are suspected of being endocrine disruptors."

You have to find the formula that suits your skin.

"Of course, you have to change your sunscreen every year", reminds the expert who notes that 57% of cream users reuse it from one year to the next.

"A cream degrades very quickly on contact with the outside. You will have the impression of protecting yourself when you are not! Even worse when there is a small suspicious odor: in this case, the cream has really turned off."

On Europe 1, Maud Ravier hammers the message: "We must renew our products!"

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If you have chosen or incorrectly applied your cream, you are putting your skin at risk and sunburn is guaranteed!

To soothe and rehydrate in an emergency, the miracle product remains aloe vera.

Not very original, but devilishly effective according to the beauty expert.

You can buy a jelly, to keep in the fridge, but also buy a branch that you will cut yourself.

"It's a miracle product that instantly soothes. It has anti-inflammatory properties, it accelerates healing, it's antiseptic, it calms irritation and itching due to the sun."

In short, an all-in-one to have in your bag!

To continue to nourish your skin after being exposed to the sun, while keeping your tan, Maud Ravier offers you a homemade recipe: "You can make a small mixture with oil, apricot and vegetable buriti, a real concentrate of carotenoids."

The mixture will hydrate and color your skin.

“So be careful with the clothes,” concludes Maud Ravier.

What to finish the state with a perfect and golden skin!