One of the easiest way to refreshing your full-body skincare routine is to lather-up with the most luxurious cleansers. Photo: Sigi Skin
It is the first week of 2024, and what better way to kick start the new year by transforming your shower routine for the better?
The right body wash products can nourish skin and help give you that silky smooth feel. Take a look at the latest offerings and give your year a clean start.
Nourishing and rejuvenating
Sigi Skin's Calming Breeze Body Wash caters to all, featuring a subtle clean musk scent with hints of refreshing buttery peach.
Vegan-friendly, gentle for kids, and safe for eczema-prone skin, everyone can indulge in this product's tranquil benefits, crafted with a harmonious blend of ingredients which include alfalfa.
This protects the skin from premature ageing while easing redness and irritation.
Verbascoside, a plant stem cell derived from lilac, regulates sebum production and soothes acne thanks to its high antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties.
Rice helps to soothe sensitive skin, and ceramides fortify the skin's barrier, promoting a plump and firm complexion.
It also contains Glycerin that seals in moisture, leaving your skin feeling soft and nourished.
Gentle and effective
Illiyoon's Ceramide Ato Line is formulated specifically for sensitive Asian skin with several core ingredients.Yoon Complex, produced from the Asian herbal medicine “Senghyulyunbueum”, it includes ginseng water and bupleurum falcatum root.
Phytoceramide, which are plant-derived ceramides from black beans have a similar structure to the ceramides of various sizes found in the skin, aim at strengthening the skin barrier gently and effectively.
The Ceramide Skin Complex is made with high amounts of ceramides and fatty acids as well as cholesterol.
The brand's Ceramide Ato 6.0 Top To Toe Wash has a mild pH balancing formula for a gentle yet effective top to toe cleansing experience.
It can be used on the scalp, face and body while maintaining the skin's natural acidity for a healthy skin barrier.
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Ultimate hydration
The Li’bra by Libra Wellness Skin Balancing Body Wash is made up of avocado oil, broccoli extract and coconut, which are meant to restore balance in skin pH levels while leaving the skin hydrated and nourished.
Sulfate-free, vegan and suitable for all skin types, the wash was designed to remove impurities without over stripping and drying.
It has a citrus botanical scent top notes of passionfruit, grapefruit, pineapple, tangerine and big strawberry, while its middle notes are peony, vanilla orchid, red berries, jasmine and lily of the valley.
Its base notes are musk, woody notes and oakmoss.
Invigorating formula
Aesop's new Bar Soaps are a sudsy collection to cleanse, buff, and invigorate.
Named Refresh, Polish, and Nurture, these 150g slabs provide an effective and fragrant cleanse, leaving skin ready for hydration.
The Refresh soap is an invigorating, non-drying cleanse that purifies without drying the skin and is created with a blend of lime, bergamot rind and ylang ylang that lends it a citrus, floral and fresh aroma.
Polish, a gentle exfoliation soap bar that has a green, camphoraceous character, is curated with a combination of grape seed and finely milled pumice, as well as sage leaf, pine needle and clove bud, suitable for most skin types but mainly for dry or patchy skin.
Nurture is a mild, non-perturbing cleanse ideal for dry skin. Created with rosemary leaf, cedar atlas and lavender stem, it leaves a woody, herbaceous aroma on the skin.
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An earthy solution
Salt & Stone's Santal & Vetiver Body Wash is a multi-benefit, refreshing gel body cleanser with antioxidant-rich seaweed extracts and natural hydrating ingredients designed to restore skin exposed to the elements.
The product is meant to soften and soothe while cleansing to reverse the drying effects of outdoor activity, wind, sun and sea.
Its scent combines Australian sandalwood with a dominant cedarwood accord, and is supplemented by an earthy vetiver note with a backdrop of warm amber.
Containing seaweed extracts and spirulina, these antioxidant-rich ocean botanicals soothe irritated skin exposed to the elements, while niacinamide creates a stronger, healthy skin barrier while improving the look of skin texture.
