I got really burnt on Sunday, and I feel like a teenager with early stages of tanorexia. It’s awful.

So, to save you from a similar ordeal, let’s talk about how to look your best this summer.

First off, we will focus on how to care for your skin while you’re in the sun.

The Renewal Institute offers a wide range of SPF products to protect your skin during the harsh summer months, an essential exercise to protect your skin and prevent damage. When choosing an SPF , ensure it is a broad spectrum giving you protection again UVA & UVB rays.

After all:

“A tan is already a sign that your skin was hurt and healing”.

But while protecting your skin when under the sun is important, achieving a youthful and bright complexion requires a little more work.

Here are three different treatments from Skin Renewal:

1. Remove dead skin

The best way to remove dead skin is through a gentle resurfacing treatment such as microdermabrasion. Alternatively, you may want to consider a more intensive treatment like a chemical skin peel.

Skin peels can be adjusted and progressively get stronger as your skin becomes conditioned. Your attending doctor will advise on the best treatments suited to your specific skin type, concerns and budget.

2. Increase circulation and boost collagen

Skin needling and Dermapen is still one of the most affordable and effective means to improve skin circulation. It also manages to stimulate collagen production by creating “micro-injuries”.

The treatment ensures that the skin kicks in with its natural repair mechanism, and in so doing builds new collagen and elastin. As an added benefit, skin needling repairs and refines the pores and skin texture.

3. Get yourself some antioxidant-rich vitamin C serum

One of our personal favourites is SkinCeuticals CE Ferulic. It offers added photo-protection, and helps safeguard the skin against sun damage while brightening the complexion too.

SkinCeuticals CE Ferulic comes in a brown glass dropper. The liquid serum is an intense yellow colour, but on application it disappears into the skin in seconds.

As with all serums, this one needs to be applied onto a clean skin, and under your moisturiser followed by an SPF. It also smells delicious and gives your skin an instant sense of healing, no matter how often you use it.

If you’re still unsure about the best way forward, there’s nothing wrong with booking a consultation with one of the Skin Renewal professionals – available at any one of their many branches around the country.

Here’s hoping your summer body is everything that you want it to be.