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What Is A Body Lotion?

Body lotions are formulations meant to be used all over the body. They provide your skin with its daily dose of hydration and nourishment. Body lotions are mainly designed to stop moisture from leaving your skin and/or absorb moisture from elsewhere to keep your skin hydrated, soft, and smooth.

Compared to face moisturizers, body lotions tend to be richer and provide your skin with the perfect nourishment. Some body lotions are also formulated to tackle specific issues such as tanned skin [1], cellulite [2], etc.

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Benefits Of Moisturizing Body Lotions

1. Rehydrates Dry Skin

Like your face, the body also loses moisture continuously due to wind, sunlight, heat or cold climate. It is essential to provide your skin with a daily dose of hydration and nourishment. Body lotions are formulated to support the skin barrier and prevent moisture evaporation. It can also rehydrate your skin and provide the much-needed nourishment.

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If you work in harsh climates often, you need to apply body lotion regularly to keep your skin hydrated. Using an appropriate body lotion after each shower can help lock in moisture deep in the skin to keep it hydrated and supple.

2. Softens Your Skin & Soothes Rough Patches

Regular application of body lotion can help to soften and soothe your dry and rough skin. A moisturizing body lotion can treat or prevent dry, rough, scaly, and itchy skin. It can also deal with minor skin irritations like rashes.

3. Keeps Your Skin Healthy

Along with improving the skin barrier, nourishing ingredients in body lotions can restore your skin’s natural defence mechanism. It helps protect your skin from external microbes and keeps the skin’s microbiome balanced. This way, you can have healthy skin.

4. Takes Care Of Calluses

A regular massage of body lotion on your comparatively dry body parts, like knees, elbows, and feet, helps to keep them soft and smooth. Everyday use of lotions also helps to calm flare-ups or irritated patches and helps to heal and moisturize dry areas that require a little extra care.

5. Helps Minimize Aging Signs

Body lotions with anti-aging ingredients can help to minimize the signs of aging like wrinkles, fine lines, and pigmentation. As your body lotion keeps your skin hydrated, it also helps to reduce the appearance of premature signs of ageing. Some lotions contain ingredients that help to heal or treat specific issues like dryness, loss of elasticity, acne, eczema, etc.

6. Makes You Feel & Smell Good

A soft and creamy body lotion with a pleasant fragrance can make your skin feel good. The lovely scent of the body lotion can also be relaxing, leaving a long-term positive effect on you.

How To Use A Body Lotion?

It is a common mistake to apply body lotion to dry skin. The best way of using body lotion is to apply it to warm and damp skin right after a bath or shower. Moist and warm skin allows drawing the maximum benefit from your chosen body lotion. Here are four easy steps to apply a body lotion:

Step – 1: Take an adequate quantity of body lotion into your palm.

Step – 2: Rup your palms together to warm up the lotion taken for massage.

Step – 3: Apply the lotion to your body using your hand and use small circular motions to massage it in.

Step – 4: Repeat the same process until you have covered your entire body. Don’t forget to take extra care of dry and rough areas of your body, such as elbows and knees.