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Shower Upgrades Your Skin Needs Now

Are you washing soft skin down the drain by committing these dehydrating shower sins?
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 Skip Scented Soaps
Would you like to smell like a flower-filled meadow if it meant you had to have scaly skin? Yeah, we didn't think so. Along with sweets scents, fragrant soaps can leave behind flaky skin due to moisture-stripping, sulfate-heavy formulas. Instead, try reaching for a hydrating oil wash, like Skinfix's Cleansing Oil Wash. The product's combination of jojoba, grape seed and aloe leaf juice work to replenish rather than rob your body's natural oils.

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Go Easy on the Shampoo
Put down that shampoo bottle, ladies. While you may think you're ensuring a headful of healthy, shiny locks by lathering up every day, over-shampooing can strip your hair and scalp of hydrating oils. Live on the edge, and try going a few days without washing your hair. Just make sure things don't start to get funky. Dry shampoo can help with that, particularly if you suffer from a greasy head of hair.

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Put Your Best Face Forward
On-the-go gals know how to multitask like pros by washing their face in the shower. Not only does it save time, but it opens up pores to receive all the moisturizing, cleansing goodness of face washing products. What they might not know is that they can undo the complexion-saving work of said products washing their face before they've shampooed and conditioned their hair. Otherwise, the runoff from hair products can clog the very pores they've just cleansed.

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Scrub Before Shaving
Unless you're a fan of ingrown hairs, make sure you prep your skin for shaving by exfoliating in the shower. That way, your razor is more likely to grab any hairs that would otherwise be trapped under dead skin. And speaking of razors, don't store 'em in the shower where they're likely to get rusty and irritate delicate skin as a result.

NOV 30, 2015 | SHARES
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