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Calm your skin with new releases from Weleda, Trilogy and Sukin designed to ease sensitive and irritated skin with natural ingredients…

Calm your skin with new releases from Weleda, Trilogy and Sukin designed to ease sensitive and irritated skin with natural ingredients.

When your skin is feeling irritated, reach out for a soothing balm to calm, sooth, nourish and replenish skin.

Ideal for sun reddened skin, Sukin Aloe Vera Gel ($10.99) is a natural plant gel that repairs skin that is suffering from sunburn, burns, wounds, shaving and chafing rashes. The Aloe Vera sap is famous for its medicinal properties, and I remember my Mum keeping a pot of it to tear little pieces off and squeeze them on our cuts when we were children. Now you don’t need a potted plant with this handy 125ml pump version.

Another summer soother is body treatment oil Weleda Sea Buckthorn Body Oil ($35.90), rich in vitamins A,C and E, flavanoids and essential fatty acids Omega 3,6 and 7. If you’ve over-indulged in summer sun a good slather of a rich body oil goes a long way to replenish the skin’s natural oils and moisture levels.

Perfect for this season is this one-stop solution to post-party skin woes. Trilogy Very Gentle Calming Fluid ($44.90 for 30 ml) is a SOS super-serum to instantly calm and soothe irritated, reactive skin and restore the skin’s natural moisture barrier. The result is fresh, soothed and radiant skin, ready to party the night away!

And here’s a skin soothing treatment you already have at home – in the kitchen! Chamomile tea is not only soul-soothing, it has benefits for your face, too. Make a brewof chamomile teabags then cool and pop in the fridge where it will last several days. App;y to sensitive, sun-stressed or aggravated skin using a cotton pad or store in a spray bottle and spritz on. Use the chamomile teabags on your eyelids to heal puffiness.

This tip, and over a hundred more, is from cool little book, THE GREEN GUIDE TO BEAUTY ($19.95) by New Zealander Tania Malone George. It’s perfect those wanting to discover the benefits of natural and ethical beauty.