BigGreenSmile.com: A little kindness for your skin this summer

We’re having a pretty good summer this year. So far, where I live it’s rained maybe twice, three times tops? That must be breaking some kind of record for Britain. It’s almost a little bit like we’re all on holiday – legs are coming out, men’s shirts are coming off, people are playing frisbee in their swimming costumes in the park and girls are basically stripping off in public in order to bake themselves as much as possible. But lets face it – while the weather is hot, most of us Brits are not resembling sunkissed Brazilian beauties right now. Instead, most of us (besides a very, very, lucky few) look like little pink prawns. With peely skin. Maybe not so sexy. There’s a simple solution though; be kind to your skin in the first place, and you’ll look healthy, youthful and sexy – Kylie Minogue puts her amazing, teenage-looking complexion down to wearing suncream absolutely everywhere, all the time. However, treat your skin badly and you’ll look like you’ve been lying on the surface of Mars for three weeks.

If you’re feeling a bit too pink at the moment (prawns of the UK, represent) then you should be thinking about giving a little back to your poor, sore skin. BigGreenSmile.com, a natural, eco-friendly beauty brand, have got a range of aloe-vera based creams and skin treatments that are sure to give your body a bit of a kissing-better. For those of you that are unfamiliar with aloe vera, it’s a desert plant that has adapted itself to cope with intense heat and sun exposure by storing moisture in its’ leaves. The gel stored up inside the plant’s leaves have natural soothing qualities that are good for relieving symptoms of sunburn, and also encourages faster healing.

There are vitamins in the skin treatments that are natural antioxidants that will prevent signs of ageing (no one wants to be wrinkly at the age of 20), work as a barrier against sun damage and make your skin all lovely and supple. So we can all feel lovely and smug when we put it on, in the knowledge that we’re gonna look hot forever, a bit like those ladies in the adverts for Simple Skincare.

The great thing about BigGreenSmile’s products is that they’re both eco-friendly and purse-friendly. Instead of shelling out for a really expensive aftersun, which probably won’t work anyway, an aloe-vera based product from BGS won’t set you back any more than a tenner. Check out the gallery to see which skin products Shiny Style is digging.