We Stay Home and Take a Spa: 10 Suggestions to Enjoy your Stay at Home!

We stay healthy, we stay safe - we stay home!

This is the message of the day due to the coronavirus pandemic. Staying at home during this period is the best way to be responsible and show love both to ourselves and those around us. 

This, of course, does not mean that we cannot enjoy it too! To make your stay at home more enjoyable, turn your house into a private Spa, tailored to your needs and wants, and gift yourself with the pampering and care you deserve! How?

1. Start with a Face Cleansing  

There is nothing more refreshing than looking at your face in the mirror every day and seeing it shinier and fresher! Start your pampering with a face cleansing. Face cleansing completes our daily body cleansing and is the first skincare step and the very foundation of beautiful skin.

At first, remove thoroughly your makeup using products meeting the needs of your skin. The Bioderma Micellaire Sensibio H2O offers smooth cleansing and makeup removal in the face and around the eyes, removing efficiently any type of impurities. If your skin is dry, better prefer the Micellaire Vichy Purete Thermale Mineral cleanser and makeup remover, a powerful yet smooth micellar cleansing emulsion for dry skin, enriched with Vichy’s Spa Metallic Water and soothing white tea polyphenols.  For oily, acne-prone skin, choose specialised products, like the Frezyderm Ac-Norm Active Foam Plus, which removes excessive smegma, impurities, and makeup, battles oiliness and regulates the production of smegma.

Prefer products that match your pH and meet the special needs of your face. Once you have removed dirt and all makeup traces from every part of your face, you are ready for the next step!

2.  Time for a Revitalising Peeling

Continue with a Peeling product for an even deeper cleansing. Try Frezyderm Facial Scrub Gel, a smooth and fresh gel that removes dead keratin cells. It ensures deep skin cleansing, removing impurities (air dirt, cigarette smoke etc.) while giving a feel of freshness and well-being. 

For even deeper peeling, you can try a peeling scrub, like the EXPRESS BEAUTY face scrub with olives by Apivita, which removes dead cells from the skin thanks to its fine olive stone grains, while offering a unique sense of rejuvenation and smoothness, thanks to the organic olive and grape oil it contains.

3. Enjoy a Hydrating Face Mask

After cleansing, it’s time for hydration! A face care mask, like the Apivita Face mask for Intensive Hydration with cucumber, will give your skin the freshness and hydration it needs. Spread a thick layer on your face with clean skin, avoiding the area around the eyes. Leave it for 10 minutes, remove the excess mask with a tissue or wet cotton, and then rinse it off with plenty of water.

Extra relaxation tip: While waiting for the mask to act:

• Enjoy a smoothie with your favourite fruits.
• For the ultimate repose and relaxation, add 5 drops of your favourite essential oil in a bowl of hot water.
• Sit comfortably and unwind!

For hydration combined with anti-ageing action, the Magnetic Face Mask by Biovene is an innovative, natural, anti-ageing and revitalising face mask that consists of magnetic iron particles, active carbon, and a mixture of the most valuable oils offered by nature, for a smooth, steady, and shiny skin. Try it!

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4. Ensure Genuine Hydration

For more systematic hydration and daily care, choose a moisturising face cream.

Tip: Don’t forget that, in order to choose the proper cream, you should always consider certain criteria, i.e. your skin type, possible skin issues, personal habits, as well as the time of year.

5. Do not Neglect your Eyes!

Staying inside does not mean that you should lose your enchanting look! Besides, beauty and charm not only attract attention but boost our spirits too!

At first, chase away the signs of tiredness around the eyes with an eye mask. Next, apply the special eyelash treatment by Foltene, whose ingredients strengthen the thin and weak eyelashes and prolong their life cycle, offering anti-ageing action and making your look even more captivating!

6. Care for your Figure! 

Just because you don’t go out so much does not mean that your figure must suffer! With a proper diet, a mini exercise in-house plan, as well as specialised weight-loss products, you can retain your form and remain slim!

7. Restore the Glow of your Hair

Frequent shampooing and house... incarceration can make us neglect our hair and make them look weary, dull and dim.

A hair mask after shampooing your hair will help the internal restructuring of your hair strands and restore health and glow to your hair!

Tip: Choose a mask that matches the type of your hair and achieve the perfect nutrition and hydration.

8. Refresh your Look 

Is your hair dyed and the roots have started to stand out?  You don’t have to worry or wait for the hairdressers to reopen to refresh your style and look!  Dye your hair by yourself simply and effortlessly with a hair dye like the permanent hair dyes Color Elixir by Apivita.

Extra tip: Change the colour or tone of your hair and make a nice surprise for you and your spouse.

9. Pamper your Hands

The part of your body that suffers the most during this period is your hands. Intensive washing (which is necessary of course) and the use of antiseptics damage and dry the skin, causing chaps and small abrasions.

So, it is imperative to pamper your hands, ensuring deep hydration for them and nutrients that will help them refresh their appearance every day.  Cicaplast Hand Cream by La Roche Posay will comfort the cracked and weary skin of your hands, and restore the protective barrier of the skin.

10. A Glowing Smile!   

Complete your pampering with a shiny and healthy smile! Enhance the brightness of your teeth with whitening toothpaste. Elgydium Whitening is a toothpaste that removes pigments from the surface of the teeth, giving a whiter smile without damaging the enamel of the teeth. In addition, Curaprox Black Is White is a black toothpaste with active carbon that restores discoloured teeth in the most natural way.

Finally, for those of you who find manual brushing boring, gift yourself with an electric toothbrush and make brushing easy and fun!

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