Dove Visible Effects body lotion

Well, over with the summer, and beginning with the winter, it's still important to keep your skin moisturized. Now that the moist level in the air is lower, the dry and cold wind on your skin, can be quite drying and damaging, therefore the importance of hydrating your skin, even though it's covered by the winter layers of clothes. This moisturizer, I've bought, a few moths ago, will help you do that.

The Dove Visible Effects body lotion, it's a moisturizer that claims to help moisturize the deep layers of your skin, where the beauty of skin begins. It has a multi-layer complex, that at first analysis, can be perceived as a heavy moisturizer on your skin, that will leave you with a greasy feeling, but it's quite the opposite. The texture of this lotion is a bit thick, but it's well absorbed into skin, and fast, leaving you with a soft feel , and with what it seems to be a barrier, maybe caused by the dimethicone. The smell is the part I don't really appreciate, because at first it smells good, like every dove lotion use to, by after a few applications it starts to be a bit overpowering, because I prefer a more fresh scent. But overall the lotion it's quite good, specially when you need that little boost of moisture.

Garnier BodySummer Lotion

Although the summer has already arrived, and you can tan your skin more easily and naturally, it is always possible to achieve a darker tan helping to enhance the one you got on the beach. For those, like me, who have a lighter skin tone, a help achieving a healthier skin tone, is always welcome.

A few years ago I found this gradual self-tanning lotion that turned out to be my second experience with self-tanners (the first was with Nivea for Men Summer Look), and therefore my lotion of choice for this purpose. Like many products from Garnier, this is of excellent quality and is inexpensive, costing about 4 €.

Starting with the package, it has a color that at first may scare you because it has an orange hue, which goes against the prejudice that exists about the self-tanning, that turns the skin orange. As for the smell, the packaging states that the aroma is a light apricot scent, which there's nothing soft about it, being quite overpowering. The smell is a bit sweet, which does not necessarily mean that it is bad, just not suitable to apply by day time and leave the house, because turns out to be a little strong. Furthermore, there goes the usual smell of DHA, which together with the sweet smell of the lotion, leaves a scent of cookies, that turns out not to be totally disgusting, because you will get used to it, but for those who know the smell, can detect miles away we are using self-tanner.

As for color, it is a gradual self-tanning, so the color takes a few days to be able to see. For me, the version that I used was the dark skin tones, and it takes about three days to get some shade, which is visible after one week, but not very dramatic. Only a winter glow, to remove the gray tone of the skin. If you do not exfoliate your skin and keep applying it, the tone starts getting more yellowish, and I only recommend to apply until it reaches a certain shade of tan. Less is more, and in this case, a light color, turns out to be natural and warms the skin tone.

The lotion is rich in vitamin E, and with no doubt leaves the skin very soft and is a great addition to the product. For men with body hair, this lotion is quickly absorbed, and you need only to wait for a few minutes (4 or 5 min) for the lotion to dry, and does not accumulate in the hair, avoiding the stains. However, I noticed that the hair may darken slightly after repeated uses, because, as the skin peels, the hair will remain for a little more time.

Personally I apply at night, waking up each day with a slightly more tanned look, and removing the smell of self-tanner in the shower. It is undoubtedly a great solution for the winter, but for summer months it gets boring, because the results are not as dramatic as you wish, and I end up not having the patience to wait for the results. Finally, it is necessary to warn all that is necessary all the usual care that you have with self-tanners, although some of them, with less concerning.

Johnson's 24 Hour Moisture Lotion

Sometimes my skin, altought it's a little bit oily, tends to become dry, and I feel the need to apply lotion in the winter time. It gets much softer and even looking, after I moisturize it, and less oily too, if the lotion doesn't cause that effect in the first place.

So I picked this particular lotion, with no special reason, only to try it out, and I ended up quite satisfied.

The smell when the product is still in the bottle is not very pleasant, it reminds me a chemical sent with, what I believe, is rose perfume...but when applied on the skin, the smell is actually quite refreshing. Not girly, kind of a neutral scent, which is not very manly even, but ok. But that's not an issue, beacause it' not an overpowering smell that interfers with your normal perfume, and it fades away.

Your skin does gets more soft and even, not oily, because the lotion absorbs very fast, and your skin starts to reflect the light, which, for me, is a sign that is moisturized. I was scared at first because in the ingridients there's Paraffinum Liquidum and Lanolin, that would make my skin breakout, but that fear was overcomed, beacuse it didn't.

The Johnson's 24 Hour Moisture Lotion, does have an ingridient that makes it not a everyday lotion for me, and I will consider if I'll use it in summer time, which is Lactic Acid, that has a peeling effect, maybe that's why the company claims that it leaves the skin smoother. I noitice that it interfears with the self-tanner, that it goes away quicker, but I do use it after the weekly exfoliation to turn your tan more even.

Besides that, It's a very good lotion, that really leaves your skin looking good! Apply it after the shower, because that's when your skin is more receptive to the lotion and helps lock in the water that's still in the skin.