The best face care ingredients for body care
While the skin on our bodies is a bit different from that on our faces, it doesn’t mean we can’t use some of the same actives in our body care. When you’re suffering from acne, dull skin, bumps and strawberry skin on your body, you want solutions. What if you could use some of the same dermatological actives on your body that work for your complexion? Read on to discover the key face care ingredients used in the latest body care, and which products will work best for you.
How is the skin of your face different from that of your body?
As you might expect, the skin covering our bodies is 1.5 to 9.5 times thicker than the skin on our faces. Thicker skin, like that on our arms and legs, is prone to roughness and an uneven texture. And despite being thicker than on your face, your body’s skin has a slower cell turnover. This means the skin is more prone to roughness, bumps, dryness or other related skin conditions.
In addition, an active lifestyle – like sweaty exercise – can mix with sebum and pollutants, blocking your skin’s pores. That can aggravate existing skin conditions. And when you exercise, your body temperature rises too, which can also inflame skin and lead to strawberry skin, or make acne-prone skin worse.
A targeted body care routine, which includes both exfoliation and hydration, can make a huge difference to the quality and condition of your skin. Let’s look at how the latest body care products use some of those star ingredients you’ve been using for your face.
How can I take care of the skin on my body?
Step One: Exfoliate
A good body-care routine starts with exfoliation. Why? Because exfoliating your body removes dead skin cells, prevents clogged pores, stimulates cell turnover and prepares skin for better absorption of a body serum, body cream, body lotion or body oil. Essentially, you can only obtain healthy looking skin with an exfoliation routine, followed by a moisturizer for dry skin or a good moisturizer for acne.
Exfoliate with a serum:
One gentle but effective way to exfoliate your body is with acids. Biocorps Anti-Bump Body Serum is like a gentle daily peel to speed cell turnover for instantly smoother and brighter skin. The 5% AHA + BHA + PHA acids help to resurface the skin, both on the surface and deeper down. With daily use, this gently refining body serum has been clinically proven to reduce the appearance of body blemishes – like acne, bumps and marks – by 67% in a month.1 Its gliding fast-absorbing gel texture easily allows for layering of a body moisturizer for dry skin or a moisturizer for acne on top.
Exfoliate with a scrub:
Biocorps Anti-Roughness Scrub is another champion of brighter, bump-free skin. Its mainly natural ingredients, like fine micrograins based on apricot seed, work to gently refine body roughness for clearer skin. In tests, 90% of consumers experienced gentle exfoliation and clearer, softer skin. And it makes an excellent body scrub for dry skin, as 80% felt it respected their skin’s natural skin balance, leaving it suppler, refined and smoother with no dryness.2 Not to mention that it works on skin firmness too! Ideal before a firming body cream, or body lotion for dry skin, as its luxurious silky texture is like a sensual second-skin. While the body serum is ideal for daily use, this body scrub for dry skin, suitable also for all types of skin, including sensitive, shouldn’t be used more than 2-3 times a week.
What if I have sensitive skin? Can I still use exfoliants?
Created with nature, using Life PlanktonTM, and its 35 nutrients, and rigorously tested, Biocorps formulas are more than suitable for sensitive skin. It’s a good thing too, as sensitive skin is often most prone to the skin conditions targeted by the Biocorps bodycare range. Wondering what makes Biotherm’s body exfoliants so unique? Gentle, nature-based formulas are one excellent reason. Another is a high degree of biodegradability (more than 94%) and commitment to sustainability. Take Biocorps Anti-Bump Body Serum: as well as being highly effective, and gentle enough to be used on sensitive skin, the body serum has a formula with 86% renewable and 97% natural origin ingredients, all of which contribute to an excellent overall environmental score of B, verified by external experts.
Step Two: Hydrate
Hydrate with Lait Corporel L’Original
This iconic body lotion for dry skin with Life PlanktonTM and citrus essences has a light, milky texture that absorbs easily without an oily residue. Its formula contains a blend of regenerating Life PlanktonTM, Omega 6, and Omega 9 that work together to strengthen your skin's barrier from the very first use. Its iconic fragrance of unique bright citrus notes, from essential oils carefully extracted from oranges and grapefruits is refreshingly zesty. It also remains true to Biotherm's Blue commitments with its 100% recycled plastic bottle.
Remember, when you use Biocorps Body Serum with Lait Corporel L’Original your skin is left even healthier, as the two products work in synergy. The 8 visible signs of skin health are improved: skin is firmer, more elastic, renewed, softer, hydrated, clearer, more comfortable and with a refined skin texture.5
Hydrate with BioCorps Multi-Corrective Body Milk
Biocorps Multi-Corrective Body Milk is a potent, skin-improving body moisturizer for firmer skin. Enriched with a high concentration of nutrient-rich Life PlanktonTM, and a blend of natural and natural-origin oils, and shea butter, it’s an excellent corrective skin-firming body moisturizer for dry skin. Addressing the issue of aging, slackening skin, it has a body toner effect: improving skin firmness by as much as 26% from the first application.3 The potent formula of this multi-corrective, skin-firming body cream promises a visible skin improvement in just seven days.4
What are the best face care ingredients to treat my body’s skin?
These are some of the most powerful ingredients for the body used in Biotherm’s body care range:
Life PlanktonTM with 35 nutrients
Biotherm’s star proprietary ingredient is derived from thermal plankton, a microorganism found in the thermal springs of the French Pyrenees. Rich in vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other skin-regenerating nutrients – a total of 35 in all – it’s a key ingredient in the Biocorps bodycare range, as well as many Biotherm skincare products, including body lotion for dry skin. It triggers skin regeneration, as well as amplifying the impact of other dermatological actives.
Peptides
These cellular restoring actives work to soothe, firm and hydrate. Peptides are chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. They are used in anti-aging skincare for their ability to stimulate collagen and elastin production, and combat sagging skin.
Salicyclic acid
An excellent exfoliant, salicylic acid is a champion of anti-acne skincare for its ability dissolve excess oil and dead skin cells to clear clogged pores and resurface skin. If you’re thinking it would be a great active in body scrub for dry skin or for sensitive skin, you’re right. Biocorps Anti-Roughness Scrub (for all skin types) contains peptides and salicylic acid, in a powerful combination that leaves skin smooth, firmer, glowing and blemish-free.
AHA BHA PHAs
These are types of hydroxy acids prized for their exfoliating properties. They help improve skin concerns like acne, uneven texture and dullness. Biocorps Anti-Bump Body Serum contains these exfoliating acids in a 5% concentration – gentle enough for daily use, and combined with hyaluronic acid and Life PlanktonTM to clear, smooth, hydrate and refine the texture of your body skin.
Hyaluronic acid
Hyaluronic acid is a powerful replenishing and hydrating active. A humectant, it has the ability to attract and maintain moisture from the environment. HA, as it’s known, is also lightweight and non-comedogenic – perfect for acne prone skin, and even sensitive skin. An ideal active for a body serum for sensitive skin like Biocorps Body Serum.
Clearly, using facial skincare actives for body care can effectively address various skin concerns, offering solutions for acne, dullness, and other issues. Discover the latest body care products using face care ingredients from Biotherm.
1 Clinical study on 60 women and men after 4 weeks
2 Self-Assessment on 75 Caucasian women and 95 Asian men & women after 4 weeks
3 Instrumental test (Dermal Torque Meter) on 40 women after one application.
4 Clinical study, 42 women, after 7 days of use.
5 Self-Assessment on 59 Caucasian women, using Biocorps Anti-Bump Body Serum & Lait Corporel L'Original, after 4 weeks
