(Beauty)

The Skincare Essentials Your Gym Bag Needs

by Jaclyn Smock

Before a trip to barre or spin class, it’s important to de-grime, de-grease and prep your skin for its next sweat-filled sesh. Trust us, a few extra minutes in the locker room will make all the difference in keeping your complexion fit and flare-up free. Ahead, the products to keep your skin sorted while you are in beast mode.

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Workout-Friendly Skincare

Step 1: Remove Makeup

Waterproof mascaras and thick foundations don't stand a chance against this deliciously-scented cleansing balm. While it's seamlessly melting makeup off it's also gently exfoliating the skin with papaya extract and vitamin C-rich acerola extract, leaving your complexion purified and glowing.

Step 2: Cleanse

Before a workout, it's important to make sure every pore-clogging impurity has been completely removed from your face. Enter Belif Pore Cleaner Bubble Foam, this user-friendly and antioxidant-rich innovative gel-to-foam wash rapidly starts fizzing with micro-bubbles to remove any traces of makeup that your pre-cleanse missed. Skin is left free of dirt and debris and pores are left clean and unclogged. Remember to cleanse post-workout, too to get rid of new bacteria and sweat.

Step 3: Tone

Mellow out redness and inflammations on your post-cleansed face with this well-balanced toner that contains mandelic acid, a multitasking AHA that keeps skin clear and monolaurin, an effective, non-irritating coconut-derived anti-bacterial. Use immediately after cleansing for the best results.

Step 4: Treat

This super-concentrated treatment packs a one-two punch against your sweat-prone hairline and T-zone so you can avoid any bumps and blemishes. Detoxifying salicylic acid works to unclog pores while a specialized LCA complex renews the skin and provides antioxidant protection.

Step 5: Moisturize

When you exercise, your skin loses water from sweating, so it becomes dehydrated and needs proper moisturizing before you begin working out. When we need to quench our skin but also balance it out, we reach for Allie Of Skin Molecular Multi-Nutrient Day Cream. It combines our beloved probiotics with marrubium stem cells and moringa extract to form a protective shield against environmental pollution, preventing these external particles from sticking to and damaging our skin.