Beauty Beat: Spring Skin Ingredients

Now let’s be honest: As comfy and cozy as the winter can be, it is such a slog on everyone’s skin. Be it the enormous dry patches, flare-ups, or, in rare cases, over-compensation of sebum, the winter time really is hard on skin and leaves people in the dust (… y skin). Never fear—The spring is not just a time for perennials and a certain Jewish carpenter to revive, but your skin, too, can go through rebirth. Be it moisturizers or serums, even a cleanser, look for the ingredients  below to help bring life to dull, flakey, and congested skin.

Fruit Enzymes

Fruit enzymes, also known as proteases, are a beautiful way to get your skin looking smooth and radiant. As opposed to using a full-on “acid,”  fruit enzymes break down protein bonds on a topical level on the skin, making it an effective and gentle way to chemically exfoliate dead skin from the face and creating an instant brightness and healthy glow to the face, that is easily maintained. Look for products that wholly market themselves for the fruit enzymes in them, and you will be glowing in no time.

Snow Mushroom

Tremella fuciform is a strain of fungi known more commonly as snow mushroom, and it’s a holy grail ingredient in skin care. This mushroom is highly praised for its similar properties to hyaluronic acid  and its ability to pull and retain moisture into the skin. Not only that, its smaller molecule penetrates the deeper, giving you full-bodied hydration, and it’s packed with vitamins and antioxidants that help with hyperpigmentation and inflammation. It’s also another sensitive skin go-to!

Amino Acids

Yes! Those same acids you get from eating meat or high-protein vegetation are important  for the skin. These are the building blocks for our entire body including our skin, helping replenish peptides and firming the skin. There are essential amino acids that we all need, but don’t sweat it. Skin care companies will source the best kinds (usually arginine, lysine, and glycine) to help give your skin a boost while also helping reduce signs of aging.

Rose and Rose Extracts

A rose by any other name is a delicate flower tightly wrapped in color and beauty. That beauty can be yours if you incorporate rose or rose extracts into your skin care. Roses are packed with vitamins A, C, D, and E giving it a brightening and rejuvenating property like no other. Even using rose water as a toner or midday spray will have dramatic benefits for your skin’s health, as rose is also an anti-inflammatory.

Camellia and Camellia Seed Oil

These beautiful pink flowers that grow on small trees are a fatty acid dream. Both camellias and camellia seed oil are packed with oleic acid and omega-9 that has all the fatty acids our face (and body) need to be youthful and moisturized, containing even more oleic acid avocados! This fatty acid is light-weight and moisturizing and will help reverse signs of aging that comes from dry skin. Plus, camellia japonica can help protect from damage from pollution.

These five skin savers can be used year ’round, but are best used to help make your skin look like new. Like all ingredients, it’s best to patch test on your forearm or jawline to see if any reaction happens on your skin before use. Using just one or a cocktail of these ingredients will make your skin, and your spring,  a little brighter.