2024 Self-Care Check-In Challenge: Week 8 - Share your body care routine!

[TeamBIC]

Happy New Year, BIC! We’re kicking off 2024 with an important reminder: we all need to take good care of ourselves – this year and beyond. 😊 Some of us may make resolutions, and others may already have their regular routines down to a tee; regardless of where you are in your self-care journey, we could all use a few extra reminders and a bit of motivation to spend a little extra T.L.C. on ourselves!

Like similar posts from previous years, we’ve come up with a list of weekly prompts to challenge you to exercise your self-care skills in different ways. 🧡 We encourage you to participate and respond to the prompts that speak to you – and don’t be afraid to share any other self-care tips and tricks along the way!

• Week 1 (1/10 – 1/16): Creating the perfect morning routine to start your day off right 🌞
• Week 2 (1/17 – 1/23): Surrounding yourself with soothing scents ✨
• Week 3 (1/24 – 1/30): Testing out products to promote wellness (supplements, intimate care, rollers…) 🌿
• Week 4 (1/31 – 2/6): Indulging in your favorite face mask(s) 👩
• Week 5 (2/7 – 2/13): Spending extra time on your hair (and scalp!) care 🧼
• Week 6 (2/14 – 2/20): Cleaning up your beauty collection 🧹
• Week 7 (2/21 – 2/27): Improving your quality of sleep 💤
• Week 8 (2/28 – 3/5): Focusing on body care (lotions, dry brushing, serums…) 🛁

Hit the “Reply” button below and let us know how you are practicing self-care!  🤩 Be sure to use the “#” to tag any products relevant to your answers, if applicable.  

[Jen225]

Body care is one of those I’ve always slacked on. But when I do a routine, I always do the following:

• Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Cherry Dub Triple Action AHA Body Scrub 8.5 oz / 240 mL  or Sol de Janeiro Bom Dia Body Scrub 10% AHA BHA Resurfacing Complex + Crushed Maracujá Seeds 7.8 oz / ...
• Sol de Janeiro Bum Bum Firmeza Firming & Debloating Body Oil 4 oz / 100 mL 

Other days i use a basic body wash and lotion that i happen to have or one my my many, many sample products i pick up. I love a body oil and how glowy it makes my skin, though!

[jaaayp]

I really have to say, this is an area where I lack the most. I have dusty crusty skin from lack of moisturizing and exfoliating. My tattoo artist always makes fun of me that I moisturize less than a man (he would know, he's kinda in my personal space for hours at a time) 😂

That being said, I have been trying to build a better body routine and this week (as previous weeks for couple months), I'm using:

SEPHORA COLLECTION Dry Body Brush 

Moroccanoil Night Body Serum 3.4 oz/ 100 mL 

Biossance Squalane + Enzyme Sugar Body Scrub 6.76 oz/ 200 mL 

Soap and Glory Peach Buttercream

P.S. my girl cat always try to join while I'm dry brushing and she loves it so much that I'm considering buying her her very own dry brush 😂

P.P.S. the boy cat likes to pretend he's not interested but I think he just playing the stereotype 🤭

 

 

 

 

[CorgiMommy]

@jaaayp I will have to try the body serum

[Titian06]

@jaaayp - I love the last two pics where you can see Pepito watching from afar. 🤣  My female cats have loved being brushed; while my male cats have fought me.  Your situation seems perfectly normal to me.

[CynthieLu]

Starting up and creating your body routine, that's so fun! @jaaayp. (Little kitty girl getting involved is too precious 😻🥰) 

[jaaayp]

Shes just in my business 24/7 @CynthieLu 😂

[peculiarzmakeup]

I love this! It’s so creative! @jaaayp  🐱 

[jaaayp]

Hehe thank you @peculiarzmakeup 🥰

[sprocketta]

I was getting ready to post as a haul (cross post) but this fits right here.

It’s all about Lush. My go-to to relax at night is the Sleepy shower gel (lavender Tonka). Morning/wake up is Happy Hippy (grapefruit bergamot) and I started liking Honey I Washed the Kids which has fainter scent (orange and bergamot). I think it was @Samtian  who once told me about Scrubee and I like Buffy as well. Both are body butter bars with scrub element. I cannot convey how much it winds me down to do Sleepy and one of those. Someone in the store mentioned King of Skin which is the body butter bar without the scrub so I’ll try it.

I hate body lotion so if you want a relaxing way to exfoliate and hydrate, that’s the way to go. They are not cheap given the number of uses you get, but I’ve searched for dupes and haven’t found one comparable.

 

[jaaayp]

Butter bar with scrub element... @sprocketta this sounds like it's made for me 😱

[peculiarzmakeup]

Lovely self care regimen! ❤️ @sprocketta 

[faeriegirl]

Necessaire is my favorite brand for body care. Nécessaire The Body Wash Eucalyptus - Nourishing Treatment Cleanse With Lipid-Rich Oils + Niacinamid... , Nécessaire The Body Serum - With Hyaluronic Acid, Niacinamide + Ceramide 5.1 oz/ 150 mL , and Nécessaire The Body Lotion - Firming Moisturizer With 5 Peptides and 2.5% Niacinamide with Pump 13.5 oz / 400 mL are so good. First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub with 10% AHA – Body Exfoliant for Keratosis Pilaris is my favorite body exfoliator. I have a dry brush but I always forget to use it before I get in the shower. Before I go to bed I use a thick foot cream and Skinfix Eczema+ Hand Repair Cream 3 oz/ 89 mL .

[jaaayp]

I love your favorites @faeriegirl !!!! I have a little stand with the dry brush and moisturizer on it (it's a plant stand so it only has the space to hold those two lol) and it helps me remind me that I need to use it!! 

[faeriegirl]

That is a great idea @jaaayp!

[peculiarzmakeup]

The process itself sounds so soothing! And great products too. I can relate to forgetting the brush but you’re doing amazing with your routine! ❤️ @faeriegirl 

[CorgiMommy]

Week 8 + Focus on body care

I have very dry skin in the winter so this is something I really focus on.

Discovered Biossance Caffeine Toning Body Cream + Squalane 6 oz / 200 mL last year.  This has transformed my skin.  Instead of dry and red my skin is now smooth and soft.  

For my feet I love

SEPHORA COLLECTION Clean Foot Mask 1 Pair Cactus / hydrating, wakes up tired feet 

Soap & Glory foot cream

I exfoliate my skin once a week with a scrub a friend makes.  She has yummy fragrances like lavender, pineapple, grapefruit and  spice to name few

Body washed I love are

Soap & Glory original pink clean on me shower gel

Tatcha Hinoki Gentle Exfoliating Body Wash 6.8 oz / 200 g 

Nécessaire's The Body Wash 

[jaaayp]

Pineapple!!! Sounds heavenly @CorgiMommy did you pick up any of the Soap and Glory Peach stuff? I love their scents and omg the peach 🍑 one was like 😱😍😭 

[CorgiMommy]

@jaaayp I haven't tried the peach but will give it a sniff next time I need a shower gel.

[jaaayp]

You'll love it if you love peach @CorgiMommy 🥰

[peculiarzmakeup]

@CorgiMommy  I love this, I’ve been wondering how those products are I just got the Biossance Squalane + Enzyme Sugar Body Scrub 6.76 oz/ 200 mL im really looking forward to trying. Thank you for sharing 🫶❤️