The sweltering heat promises good times to be had at the beach. Tickets are booked, SUVs are loaded, vacation leaves are filed. You’ve got your new bikini packed and your new aviators are just begging for some major nose-perching. The playlist is ready and the book, dog-eared. Anything missing? Maybe the following beauty products: all essential for completing the perfect beach holiday. We’ve got oils, washes and quick-fix treatments that make sure life at the beach remains as steady and sunny as it should always be.
California Baby Natural Bug Blend Bug Repellent Spray
How is baby Suri protected from the sun? She goes organic. Katie Holmes, apparently, is a fan of California Baby products, a line of purely organic, natural and chemical-free skin and bodycare products that’s also free of allergens — no nut oils, gluten, soy, oat, dairy — and parabens. The brand’s Natural Bug Blend Bug Repellent Spray, with citronella and lemon eucalyptus, makes sure that you and your babe are safe from bites of why, pesky mites and flies that make their home in tropical sands. It also contains an SPF 30+ sunscreen, making it a two-in-one must.
California Baby Swimmers Defense Shampoo and Bodywash
Why bring a 30-pound trolley to the beach when all you really need is a teeny two-piece, sounds, some chick lit, sunscreen and a great after-swim set. This do-all product, which includes sustainably-grown lemongrass, lightens your load even more. A shampoo and a bodywash in one bottle, this product is great pre- and post-swim. Prior to attacking the water, it’s great for protecting color-treated hair. A promise to restore moisture and pH balance to both skin and hair makes it good bath company.
California Baby is available at Rustans, Beauty Bar, BigNSmall, Procreations and Manila Polo Club.
Avon Anew Clinical Lift and Tuck Professional Body Shaper
You can’t afford to be overly-skeptical of quick-fix treatments during bikini season, especially if the summer heat has had you taking refuge in an ice cream shop (those Rocky Road scoops are particular to lazing around in your tummy). But then, Avon Anew’s Lift and Tuck Professional Body Shaper is, thankfully enough, nothing to be skeptical about. Beauty experts and beauty editors all love this product and stand by its promise of “tightening the tummy and lifting the rear in just four weeks.” (That doesn’t give you enough time but if you throw in some serious treadmill time, maybe you can do it in three.)
An exclusive Vacu-Shape technology and a unique blend of patent-pending ingredients work together to boost cellular metabolism and increase microcirculation, creating a smoother, tighter, jiggle-free look.
Log on to www.avon.com.ph for information on where to buy this product.
Pantene Total Care Intensive Treatment Tub and 3-Minute Miracle ampoule
Unless you’re an A-list Hollywood star that can summon a personal hairstylist from halfway across the globe while filming on location, chances are you are in charge of your hair soon as you step out of the confines of the city. Salon treatments are scarce on a beach trip, so deal with dried-out, harried hair with Pantene’s handy 3-Minute Miracle treatment. This quick-fix hair pacifier may come in a small ampoule but it works hard, helping repair three months worth of damage in just three minutes. Its unique formula repairs and strengthens hair inside and out with Amino Pro-Vitamins that penetrate the hair strands and hydrate severely damaged hair.
Go even more treatment-intensive as soon as you get home with the tub version, the Pantene Total Care Intensive Treatment. It has three times more pro-vitamin ingredients that bring back the smoothness and shine to dried out, sun-, sand-, and water-logged hair. Just like with the 3-Minute Miracle, simply squeeze excess water from hair after shampooing and apply liberally to the hair in the same way as a rinse-off conditioner. Leave on for three minutes and then rinse. This way, only your glowing tan can reveal you’ve been to the beach.
Pantene is available at all leading supermarkets and department stores nationwide.
Yummy Mummy Anti-Stretchmark Oil
Created by new mothers Monica Eleazar-Manzano and Denise Gonzales, Yummy Mummy is a line of all-natural bath and body products that are safe even for babies’ sensitive skin. Shampoos, scrubs, oils and washes are free from parabens, artificial perfumes, petrochemicals, lanolin and other unnecessary synthetic ingredients and is kept preserved by antioxidants.
One of their more interesting, summer-friendly products is an all-natural anti-stretchmark oil that both prevents and corrects those unsightly, web-like lines (our curse for not moisturizing enough). This sweet-smelling oil contains lavender to help prevent stretchmarks, heal fresh marks, cuts and scratches, and tangerine, a known diuretic and an agent that helps prevent cellulite.
Log on to indigomanila.multiply.com for orders or call Monica/Denise at 725-9285.
Yummy Mummy Scrub Me Yummy Edible Peppermint Body Scrub
The entire tanning process is not just all about good sun, a strapless bikini and an over-all spritzing of tanning oil. What you do after baking in the beach the whole day is as essential as the act itself. Exfoliation and moisturizing are both needed to get that amazing tan going, the former to assure that all the dead and peeling skin is scuffed off to reveal your newly-bronzed bod. And moisturizing assures that it stays gleaming. This peppermint body scrub performs both duties at the same time and, because of the peppermint, cools the skin after a hot day out in the sun. It’s edible too, which should make it perfect for other beach pursuits. (We mean ice cream toppings.)
Log on to indigomanila.multiply.com for orders or call Monica/Denise at 725-9285.
California Baby Sunscreen
Fragrance-free and lightweight, this non-chemical PABA-free sunscreen uses a highly micronized, non-whitening titanium dioxide that scatters and reflects both UVA and UVB rays. A bonus addition of Japanese green tea sneaks in an anti-oxidant property. It is non-greasy, and even works well as a makeup primer.
California Baby is available at Rustans, Beauty Bar, BigNSmall, Procreations and Manila Polo Club.