The last thing you want to do in summer is layer up. Stick to these natural tinted moisturizers to stay flawless and keep your skin protected from the sun all in one hit.

Finding the perfect piece of kit to meet your coverage needs in the natural makeup world can be a challenge, but when pairing it with an SPF it makes matters even more complicated.

Different formulas don’t always gel well together when applied on the skin, and in the summer, piling on multiple creams can get a little sticky. What you want is to feel and look fresh faced while still ticking all the necessary boxes. Meet the natural tinted moisturizers doing just that; with mineral sunscreens like titanium dioxide and zinc, these gems provide broad spectrum UV protection, all the while giving your complexion that extra boost.

5 Ways To Get Sheer Coverage and SPF All-In-One

1. Juice Beauty Stem Cellular CC Cream

A little different from your typical tinted moisturizer, this color-correcting cream has what at first appears to be a thick texture, but applies beautifully, feeling lightweight and providing just a hint of coverage. The dewy finish dishes out the glow factor promised in the names of the five shades (Natural Glow to Deep Glow) whilst acting as a great primer for any more makeup to follow. Alongside the SPF 30 protection, certified organic juices like apple and aloe, plus skincare superstar hyaluronic acid, help to keep skin hydrated all day long.

2. Ilia Beauty Sheer Vivid Tinted Moisturizer

Although tinted moisturizers don’t need to be the perfect color match when compared to foundations, it’s certainly a bonus to have a few shades to choose from like the six that Ilia has created. With a lotion-like consistency, a little goes a long way, but it also makes it slightly buildable to go from barely-there to light coverage. The final finish is a velvety, semi-matte look; perfect for avoiding any unwanted shine on hot summer days! Touting a rating of SPF 20, it should provide enough sun protection for most skin types with the exception of very fair complexions.

3. De Mamiel Exhale Daily Moisturizing Nectar

The sun isn’t the only thing your skin could use protection from! This luxurious tinted moisturizer acts as a daily shield against the elements, not only from UV rays (with SPF 30) but including harsh air pollution, too. Antioxidant-rich oils such as red raspberry seed and rosehip work their magic against free radicals that are an inevitable part of city life, as well as sun exposure, helping keep skin healthy on all levels. The only downside to this botanical beauty is the availability in one shade only, limiting who this can work for.

4. W3ll People Bio Tint Multi-Action Moisturizer

As the newest natural tinted moisturizer on the block, this formula offers up a few perks when compared to other options. The finish hits a nice middle ground that is neither dewy or matte, but rather luminous, which is pretty ideal for an effortless no-makeup look. The airless pump and squeezy tube are other benefits not to miss, as they make this summer essential ideal for slipping into your makeup bag minus ay leakage anxiety! Just choose from the four available shades (all SPF 30) and you’re set.

5. Josh Rosebrook Tinted Nutrient Day Cream SPF 30

Using specifically non-nano zinc oxide, this tinted moisturizer is about as natural and safe as they come. It doesn’t take the job of moisturizing lightly, as this glorious cream comes packed with the likes of certified organic aloe, shea butter, and hemp seed oil (just to name a few). However, all the skin loving oils don’t stop this cream from being ultra lightweight and sinking in fast upon application, leaving only a fresh looking glow behind. Once again, the only downside is that it’s currently only available in one shade.

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Not hitting the beach as much as you’d like this summer? Bring the beach to you with the perfect sea salt spray.

Beachy waves may not be the newest or most exciting hairstyle out there right now, but when summer rolls around, we still all want that seaside babe look. There’s nothing quite like the real deal, but with pure and natural sea salt spray which use salts straight from the ocean, you get pretty close.

Not only does it look effortless, but it is effortless! With just a few spritzes of these natural hair wonders, you’ll be rocking tousled locks in no time.

How To Be A Natural Beach Babe With Sea Salt Spray

1. John Masters Organics Sea Mist

For a subtle boost of texture that’s gentle on locks, you can’t get much better than this offering from John Masters Organics. While those with poker straight hair may want to go for something a little more volumizing, this salty solution is ideal for heads of hair that already rock waves, and want something to enhance them without too much of a messy look. The helping of certified organic lavender oil will not only be a selling point for lovers of this flower but also soothes sensitive scalps.

2. Olivine Love + Salt Beach Hair and Body Mist

This concoction is to sea salt spray what four cheeses is to pizza. But vegan, of course! You’ll find Epsom, Pink Himalayan, dendritic, and organic French sea salt in amongst the mix, which each have their own unique mineral profile. This may not make a huge difference to hair, but it’s nice to know Olivine have all basis covered. Plus, it doubles as a scented body spray which improves skin hydration. Although that sounds counterintuitive, magnesium and calcium rich salts actually help keep skin’s barrier function, well, functioning. If you want as much matte texture as possible, you’ve found your match. Just keep spraying until you’ve achieved the level of texture and volume you want, while added coconut oil will make sure hair stays soft and nourished.

3. Herbivore Botanicals Sea Mist Texturizing Salt Spray Coconut

A sea salt spray that comes with some serious summer vibes (shouldn’t they all?)! The simple combination of coconut and vanilla extract, plus a dash of lime essential oil, will make your tresses smell truly tropical. It certainly doesn’t lack in the beach waves department either. Designed to have the same concentration of salt as the ocean, it imparts a naturally tousled look for every day summery hair. The addition of aloe will keep your hair moisturized too, and also makes it particularly great for dry hair types that usually steer away from sea salt sprays.

4. Rahua Enchanted Island Salt Spray

New on the scene, cult haircare brand Rahua has finally given the natural beauty world its answer to sea salt spray. Known for its use of tropical ingredients, this sea salt spray lives up to that reputation with guava juice, and hibiscus and passion fruit extracts, creating and intoxicating scent. Luxury lovers will adore the frosted glass bottle and rosy hue the pink sea salt lends to this beach in a bottle.

5. Captain Blankenship Golden Waves Sea Salt Shimmer Spray

Saving what is maybe the best ’til last, this liquid sunshine is a more summery twist on Captain Blankenship’s already popular Mermaid Sea Salt Spray. While the golden glitter looks more club than beach in the bottle, once sprayed into hair is gives is a subtle glimmer that only reveals itself when caught in the summer sun. Sea salt isn’t the only piece of ocean magic you’ll get in this formula too, as organic sea kelp extract treats both hair and scalp to a dose of minerals and vitamins. The final texture is gorgeous; while you can build it up, it never looks overly matte or begins weighing down fine hair, it just creates a soft, bouncy tousle that stays throughout the day.

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Feeling the heat? If your skin is showing signs of summer fatigue, enlist the help of natural cooling products that soothe and calm.

Redness, rash, itchiness, puffiness, general discomfort. These can all be signs of too much fun in the sun.

Even if you manage to avoid sunburn by using a healthy sunscreen, your skin can still show symptoms of overheating. Time to bust out the natural cooling ingredients.

Aloe vera, chamomile, green tea, peppermint, lemon, and rose are some of the best natural coolers around. Find out which products have these and more, just in time to beat the heat.

8 Natural Cooling Beauty Products for Skin

1. Isa’s Restorative Beauty Balm: This skin soothing and softening balm contains blue chamomile to comfort burned, irritated, and inflamed skin. Perfect for use on face for relief from sunburn.

2. Tata Harper Soothing Muscle Gel: A super soother made with citrus and blue cypress, to cool and calm stressed out muscles. Use post-workout, after hiking, or when your body simply feels overworked.

3. Hurraw! Pitta Lip Balm: Summer is pitta season, and that means things are fired up. Chill lips out with this smoothing balm made of amalki fruit, coconut, lemongrass, and peppermint.

4. Province Apothecary Invigorating + Balancing Toner: Rosewater gives skin a rush of soothing and cooling comfort, perfect after time in the sun.

5. Odacite Mint and Green Tea Pore Purifying Toner: Green tea, peppermint, and willow bark purify in this skin refresher to calm and clear. Perfect for keeping acne in check.

6. de Mamiel Summer Facial Oil: A facial oil with cooling effects? This beauty combines lemon, geranium, and wild rose to hydrate and refresh skin. Added bonus: aromatherapeutic qualities relieve tension too.

7. EiR NYC Cooling Butter: Peppermint whipped balm? Yes, please! Use this skin chiller to soothe bruising, aches, and sunburn.

8. Trilogy CoQ10 Eye Recovery Concentrate: You know how eyes can become puffy and feel irritated this time of year. Try out this fragrance-free wrinkle banishing formula with a cooling roller ball.

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Ever wonder how some women look daisy fresh under the sun, while you seem to wilt? These simple summer beach essentials will keep you looking hot while playing in the surf and sand.

You put effort into getting ready for the beach. The key to getting your look to last is some smart planning and using summer worthy products.

Prep items, melt resistant makeup, skin fresheners, and sun protection are musts. They’ll make your day at the beach seem like, well you know…

7 Beach Essentials for Your Beauty Kit

All Good Sunscreen Butter

1. Best SPF: Let’s start at the top. Safe and effective sunscreen is an absolute must when spending time in the sun. And when at the beach, make sure it is reef safe. Remember to reapply every two hours, or if you’ve been sweating or swimming, whichever comes first.

inVitamin Cleansing Micellar Water

2. Skin refresher: Hydrate and revitalize overheated and dry skin with micellar water. Tiny beads of oil make sure skin isn’t parched once you return from fun in the sun.

Earth Tu Face Dead Sea Salt Scrub

3. Smooth Operator: Before heading out into the sun, give skin a thorough sloughing. Also key to a smooth application of self tanner.

URSA Major Fortifying Face Balm

4. Ingrown hair treatment: Sleek, hair-free skin is a no-brainer for beach season. If you are still experiencing ingrown hairs on bikini line even with the best shaving technique, try applying a dab of soothing balm post shave to ward off those little buggers before they become a problem.

ILIA Tinted Lip Conditioner SPF 15

5. Lip color with protection: Lips get sunburned too. Choose a safe lip sunscreen to protect your pucker. Want color with your UV protection? Ilia Beauty has two delicious hues.

Little Barn Apothecary Coconut + Mint Cooling Mist

6. Body refresher: Natural deodorants are good for keeping odor at bay. But no deodorant can last through a full day of 90-degree temps, swimming, and sweating. Refresh your bod with a spritz of this body mist made with aloe, dead sea salt, jasmine, and peppermint.

NCLA Bikinis & Martinis

7. Perfect polish: What do you need to complete your look other than a pretty hat and maybe a new pair of shades? Perfectly polished tootsies. This shade ought to do nicely.

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Certain beauty trends don’t see a sad farewell when they go. Most natural beauty gals aren’t terribly heartbroken over the waning popularity of contouring, for one. Think it’s truly on the way out? A new beauty trend called “non-touring” has made the scene, so we’re thinking it may be safe to say buh-bye to that high maintenance look.

Contouring not only takes a lot of makeup and time to construct, it isn’t so easy to maintain. High temps and humidity can ruin the look pretty quickly. Obviously, time spent near a pool or beach is not an option.

Summer is the perfect time for a lighter makeup look. Quick and easy doesn’t hurt either. And you also want something that will endure a day of heat and possible moisture. Who wants to be powdering their nose all afternoon when they could be sipping margs poolside?

If you are not the type to go completely bare faced or simply want to radiate as much inner glow as humanly possible, non-touring is for you. Yes, another somewhat funky makeup technique name (stripping and blurring, anyone?), but this one has true merit in the natural beauty world.

What is it, already? Non-touring is a makeup look much like strobing. Only less … intense. The point of strobing is to use highlighter to define and sort of contour, in a sense, the appearance of face shape and features. Non-touring, on the other hand, is supposed to look like your own skin. If you ate only raw veggies, drank gallons of filtered spring water, and meditated 8 hours a day. Every day.

Since none of us do all those things (at least not every day), here is how non-touring works.

3 Steps to a Non-Touring Look (You Won’t Believe How Easy It Is!)

1. You want skin to shine through, and look fresh and healthy. So rather than thick foundation, try using a tinted moisturizer. Feel naked with no foundation? A primer applied first will help the tinted moisturizer to stay in place and will give the complexion a more refined look. ILIA Beauty Sheer Vivid Tinted Moisturizer comes in 6 natural shades and provides semi-matte coverage, so won’t compete with the highlighter.

2. Next up is highlighter. A light touch is required here so that you don’t really notice it. You are going for a naturally lit-from-within look. Using a highlighter that is close in color to your natural skin tone is best with non-touring. Apply a bit to areas of face that the light hits naturally – tops of cheekbones just under eyes, bridge of nose, brow bone, and cupid’s bow of lips. RMS Beauty Master Mixer is a rose gold tone that has the unique ability to bring out the best in any complexion. A summer must-have.

3. A very light dusting of facial powder will take the glare off. Be sure not to overdo this step, as you don’t want to cover up the glow factor. RMS Beauty “Un” Powder goes on light and disappears into skin, taking the look of shine with it.

Sound way too simple? That’s because it is! Don’t overthink this whole non-touring thing. Just bask in the compliments you’ll receive on your super healthy, natural-looking, ultra-radiant skin.

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Summer is the season of fun and freedom. Who has time for labor intensive get ready sessions? Not us. Use these summer beauty hacks for a stress free beach season.

1. Sea Salt Scrunch // Hair should be easy, breezy this time of year. Put the blowdryer, straightener, and curling iron away, and get your scrunch on. At the beach? Use seawater. For the landlocked, try John Masters Organics Sea Mist Sea Salt Spray with Lavender.

2. Sand Scrub // You know how your feet get super dry over winter? Well those babies are coming out of hiding and it is time to get them flip-flop ready. When hanging at the beach, exfoliate tootsies with sand. Otherwise, Chocolate Sun White Tea Leaf & Citrus Blossom Body Scrub uses Dead Sea salts, Turbinado sugar, and antioxidant White tea for sloughing and softening.

3. Brush Off // Feel you are in a constant state of sand battlement when spending time at the beach? Just before heading inside or getting into the car, dust skin with Beach Organics Beachcomber Organic Body Powder (talc-free) to absorb moisture and get rid of sand. This works on little bodies post beach or sandbox too.

4. Tea Relief // When you’ve overdone the sun, relieve discomfort and inflammation with the help of anitioxidant tea. Apply cooled green tea bags to affected areas or stand in shower and spritz body with chilled tea.

5. Big Chill // Sun exposure, alcohol, party foods, and lack of sleep all contribute to puffiness. Freeze green tea and run cubes over puffy skin and eyes for instant calmed, toned skin. Helps soothe summer acne too.

6. Fight the Burn // One thing we all deal with at some point during summer is the dreaded razor burn. Chilled chamomile tea bags are said to soothe this problem. Dr. Shannon’s Organic Skin Balm also works like a charm for this and so many other things.

7. Soy Good // Already tired of the regular leg shave? Soy may be good at stunting hair growth and making the hair finer, so you need to shave less often. Worth a try. LOVEFRESH Body Butter contains soy and other yummy smelling ingredients.

8. Frizz Co-control // Coconut oil is soothing, hydrating, and cooling. This makes it an ideal body moisturizer for summer. Did you know it works on hair too? Add a dab to ends of strands to combat frizz.

9. Fresh Pits // Another use for coconut oil – mix with just a bit of baking soda and use as an armpit scrub to lighten and brighten skin in this area.

10. Tan Fix // Baking soda also comes in handy as a sunless tanner fix. Did your faux tan go awry in a few spots? Put a small amount of baking soda on a wet washcloth and rub onto mistake until it disappears.

11. Ready, Set, Tone // Let your toner double as a setting spray. Mist over freshly applied makeup to keep from melting and smudging. Also great for freshening skin throughout the day. Dr. Alkaitis Organic Herbal Toner is perfect.

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