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Moisturizing can be tricky in the summer months. While it remains an essential part of skincare, many moisturizers are too heavy for hot weather, leaving the skin feeling sticky, greasy, and uncomfortable.
If you can relate, Lionesse has a solution. The Golden Sapphire Cream is a lightweight moisturizer that not only feels refreshingly cool when applied to the skin but also tackles many summer-related visible skin concerns.
Meet the Golden Sapphire Cream: The Lightweight Moisturizer Your Skin Has Been Waiting For
If a lightweight moisturizer is what you’re after, you’ll love the exquisitely silky texture of the Lionesse Golden Sapphire Cream. It has a delicate feel – one that allows it to quickly melt into the skin once applied. As it does so, it provides an intense splash of moisture, along with several other benefits:
- Gives the skin barrier a stronger and more resilient finish
- Softens the look of fine lines and wrinkles
- Leaves the skin looking plumper, smoother, and more elastic
- Lightens the visibility of dark spots and evens out the skin tone
- Chock-full of powerful antioxidants
- Locks hydration into the skin
- Brightens a dull complexion
With such a multitasking nature, this lightweight moisturizer lends itself well to the summer months. It provides a dewy, hydrated glow without leaving the skin feeling greasy.
A Look Inside
How, exactly, is this lightweight moisturizer able to offer such a wide scope of benefits? The answer lies in its ingredient list. Let’s take a closer look inside one of those glitzy golden glass jars…
Peptides
With the summer heat really taking a toll on the skin’s natural protective barrier, one of the most important roles of a moisturizer is to ensure that the skin barrier feels replenished and strong enough to cope with the season. Heavier moisturizers do this with a blend of different plant butters and oils, whereas the Golden Sapphire Cream uses peptides to give the skin barrier some TLC. With numerous studies proving that peptides play a key role in barrier function, these are great ingredients to have in a lightweight moisturizer.
Peptides are also known for boosting the skin’s moisture content. The skin’s ability to retain moisture improves when it has plentiful peptides, ensuring that skin cells feel sufficiently quenched at all times.
Aloe Vera
If you’ve ever applied aloe vera gel to your skin, you’ll know how cooling and soothing it feels. Aloe vera leaf extract, a key ingredient in this lightweight moisturizer, has the same effect. It’s the perfect ingredient for a summer skincare routine – it saturates the skin with moisture while also lowering the feeling of inflammation in the skin.
What many don’t realize about aloe vera is that it’s a natural source of salicylic acid. It keeps the pores feeling clear, which allows other skincare ingredients to easily penetrate the skin. It also gives the skin a brighter and clearer finish.
Licorice Root
Although licorice root has been used for cosmetic purposes for centuries, it has only recently started to receive the attention it deserves. This plant extract contains a few notable compounds, such as glycyrrhizin, which not only calms the look of redness and irritation, but also prevents the appearance of aging and dark spots.
Thanks to its complexion-soothing effects, licorice root extract is well-tolerated by all skin types. It’s a worthy ingredient to have in your arsenal if your skin often feels inflamed in the summer.
Green Tea
While all botanical extracts contain antioxidants, green tea is famous for consisting of certain compounds that can’t be found in many other plants. EGCG, for example, is a bioactive compound with potent properties that enable it to protect against the appearance of UV damage, boost skin hydration levels, and give the skin a smoother, firmer finish.
So, when you see a lightweight moisturizer formulated with green tea extract, you immediately know that it’s going to pack a punch in terms of antioxidant power. The way in which it soothes the feeling of inflammation makes it useful in the summer, too, as does its ability to regulate how oily/dry the skin feels.
Caffeine
Love how your morning cup of coffee perks you up for the day? It all comes down to the caffeine, a compound that will have the same effect on your complexion too. This is why it’s a popular ingredient in many eye care products, like the Lionesse Amber Eye Cream. It revives, brightens, and tightens the look of the skin, which is why we’ve also incorporated it into our Golden Sapphire Cream. This way, the rest of your face is able to benefit from caffeine as well!
Just like many of the other ingredients in our much-loved lightweight moisturizer, caffeine has excellent antioxidant properties. It tackles the visibility of free radical damage, evens out the skin tone, and leaves the skin looking infinitely more radiant.
Vitamin E
Another antioxidant that you’ll find in our Golden Sapphire Cream is vitamin E. Like all of the other antioxidants we’ve mentioned, this one is also a superstar at keeping the skin feeling safe when faced with environmental aggressors.
However, vitamin E is also a great ingredient for keeping the skin barrier feeling supported. With hot weather often compromising skin barrier function, a lightweight moisturizer infused with vitamin E can make all the difference in the summer months.
Making the Most of the Golden Sapphire Cream
As you can see, the Golden Sapphire Cream has plenty to offer. However, if you want to ensure that you’re making the most of all of its benefits, here are a few tips to keep in mind:
Always Cleanse First
Applying a moisturizer to skin that hasn’t been cleansed first is going to be disastrous for your complexion. You’ll end up sealing in a multitude of impurities, from dirt and sebum to pollutants and dead skin, all of which will get pushed deeper into your pores.
So, before slathering your skin with the Golden Sapphire Cream (or any moisturizer, for that matter), always cleanse first. If you’d like to use a cleanser that perfectly complements our lightweight moisturizer, give the Lionesse White Pearl Facial Cleanser a try!
Apply Your Moisturizer to Damp Skin
Whether you’re applying your moisturizer immediately after cleansing or you have a few other skincare steps to carry out in between, one tip to remember is that your skin should, ideally, always be damp when you moisturize. Why? Because moisturizers work by forming a light seal over the skin’s surface. If there are extra water molecules hanging about at that time, they’ll be locked into your skin by your moisturizer. This significantly boosts your skin’s moisture levels.
What should you do if your skin dries out before you’ve had the chance to moisturize? Give it a spritz with a hydrating face mist or toner. The Lionesse White Pearl Skin Toner, which contains a blend of skin-quenching ingredients, does this job well!
Exfoliate Regularly
We’ve already talked about how important it is to cleanse before moisturizing. Well, regularly exfoliating is crucial too. While a cleanser removes impurities from your skin’s surface, an exfoliator dives in deeper. It clears any blockages in the pores, which makes penetration easier for your moisturizer.
With that said, picking the right exfoliator is vital. While people often gravitate toward aggressive exfoliators, it’s always best to keep things gentle. A product like the Lionesse White Pearl Facial Peeling will exfoliate your skin without harming your skin barrier.
Gently Pat and Sweep
How do you apply your moisturizer to your skin? For many, the answer to that question involves rubbing it in. However, experts advise taking a different approach if you want to enhance absorption…
Rather than rubbing your moisturizer into your skin, try gently patting and sweeping it in instead. This gives circulation a boost, allowing your skin cells to put your moisturizer to better use.
More Hydrating Moisturizers From Lionesse
Wondering what other moisturizing gems you might find at Lionesse? Here are a few more of our bestselling face creams:
The Black Onyx Cream
If your skin often feels dry or dehydrated, you’ll love the Black Onyx Cream from Lionesse. It has a richer texture than our Golden Sapphire Cream, making it a great option for the evenings.
This moisturizer is filled with an array of hydrating ingredients. Sodium hyaluronate, olive oil, lactic acid, and more come together to ensure that the skin has access to plenty of moisture. Meanwhile, vitamins A, C, and E provide immense antioxidant power, which is backed up by the selection of plant extracts that have also been included in this moisturizer.
The Diamond Neck & Face Lift Cream
While all of our moisturizers can be used on both the face and the neck, the Diamond Neck & Face Lift Cream has been designed specifically to tighten up the look of sagging and loose skin, which the neck is highly prone to.
In addition to the complexion-firming ingredients we’ve chosen for this lightweight moisturizer, it also contains a sprinkling of diamond powder. This gives the skin an instant luminescence!
The White Pearl Day Moisturizer
Another day cream worth considering for your skincare routine is the Lionesse White Pearl Skin Moisturizer. This formula, which contains shea butter and vitamin E, is a great one for bolstering the feel of the skin barrier.
Although this moisturizer contains plant oils and butters, it doesn’t feel heavy or greasy when applied. Instead, it sinks into the skin quickly, leaving a dewy and plump finish. Use it in conjunction with the White Pearl Night Cream in the evenings, and your skin will thank you!
Summary
Finding a lightweight moisturizer that’s capable of keeping your skin hydrated for hours isn’t easy, which is exactly why the Lionesse Golden Sapphire Cream is such a hit. Combine this face cream with some of the other hydrating products from Lionesse, and your skin will soon start to look healthier than ever!
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