Time to put away your tights and bare some leg now that the sun is shining and the fresh air is calling! However, your skin may require some attention to restore its natural radiance and softness after spending months hidden from the cold. Fortunately, even if you’d prefer to do less than more, getting smooth, touchable skin on your legs can be easy.
You can feel confident and prepared for the warm weather by following these simple changes to your routine to get smooth legs. Who knows, maybe you’ll even get your shorts out of storage …
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12 Solutions to Get Smooth Legs
Moisturise Often, But Pick Your Moment.
Even if you’ve been living in your jeans for the past four months, the cold air can do a lot of damage to your skin. Consider moisturizing once daily, ideally right after you step out of the shower or bath. Dry your legs gently and replenish the moisture you lost with a lotion or cream since cleansing products and hot water remove some of the skin’s natural oils. A gentle, odorless product is best if your skin is a little sensitive because chemical fragrances can irritate it.
It’s a good idea to combine your regular moisturizer with sun lotion as the weather gets sunnier because even a British summer includes at least one warm day. This will help prevent sunburn.
Consider Switching Up Your Hair Removal Routine.
If you’re wondering how to get smooth legs free of bumps from ingrown hairs, shaving rashes, and nicks and cuts, the answer might be to either buy a gentler shaving device or stop shaving altogether. An epilator will accomplish the same task without the need for salon expertise if waxing seems a bit messy. IPL is a great investment if you’re looking for a quick, painless option that can last up to 8 weeks* (so it’s ideal for the holidays).
If you must shave, use a shaving cream that has been specially formulated to make the skin more pliable for the blades to glide over. To prevent stinging, always shave in the direction of hair growth. To keep your blades clean and sharp, rinse them frequently and replace them as needed.
Exfoliate Once Or Twice a Week.
The idea behind exfoliation is that it helps to remove dead skin cells and dirt, revealing the natural radiance of the skin underneath. Exfoliating too frequently is a mistake that many people make because excessive scrubbing can irritate the skin, especially if it was already sensitive, to begin with.
Adult skin usually regenerates itself in 20 to 40 days, so once or twice a week of exfoliation is usually sufficient. However, during the winter, when skin is typically drier and more prone to irritation, it is recommended to exfoliate more frequently. You should read the packaging of any tools or products you use because this will partly depend on what you’re using to exfoliate.
So, how should you exfoliate your legs for the best results? Consider exfoliating your body with a body scrub after your bath or shower and before you take a bath or shower. It’s crucial to be gentle when using either solution; lightly buff your skin to prevent it from being scratched or irritated.
Use Shaving Cream Or Gel, Not Soap
When compared to soap, shaving cream offers advantages. Your hairs become softer and are therefore simpler to shave close to the skin’s surface. A good choice is formulations with colloidal oatmeal, vitamin E, olive oil, and lanolin. With its antioxidant properties, vitamin E is particularly effective at enhancing hair softness.
On the other hand, soap has very little to no of that softening ability. Since soap is used to thoroughly clean your skin and hair, it has the potential to make your hair more brittle, and brittle hair resists a closer shave.
Sunscreen is for Your Legs, Too
some people forget to put sunscreen on their legs even in the sunniest weather.
Sunscreen is even more crucial if you’ve been exfoliating, which removes your skin’s protective layers from the sun. Have you ever heard of legs with a silky-smooth sunburn?
Too much unprotected time spent in direct sunlight can harm your skin over time. When you neglect proper skin care, you could develop much more serious issues than coarse legs. So suit up!
Act Fast With Your Post-shower Body Cream
Shea butter, ceramides, and lanolin are examples of moisturizing components that can be found in body creams to help lock in moisture.
As soon as you step out of the shower, apply your body cream to help you retain as much moisture as you can before your skin starts to dry out.
The skin on your legs dries out more quickly than skin elsewhere on your body. So, strike when they are at their moistest if you want to keep them soft. And be generous with your application! You won’t likely achieve buttery smooth legs by sparingly applying body cream.
Use a Gentler Body Wash
Some cleansers really kick your skin’s butt by removing all the natural oils along with dirt and perspiration. In the long run, that deprives your skin of the natural softness and defense it has.
It may be beneficial to switch to creamy body washes enriched with argan, almond, or coconut oil. Rather than scalding your skin, these kinder products work with it. Never dispose of the baby along with the dirty laundry. Secure the priceless natural oils in your body.
Body Oil Gives You Softer Legs While You Sleep
Water and oil don’t mix; they aren’t good friends. So, when water wants to escape from your body, oil makes a great security guard. Your baby-smooth skin can be protected day and night with a layer of body oil over water-based moisturizers!
The best benefits of the body cream won’t be lost if you apply a layer of body oil over your moisturized legs; in fact, the oil even helps to lock in more moisture. For the morning, that means softer legs!
Your moisturizers can be protected from rubbing off by body oil as well. Because of the increased sweating caused by your body temperature while you sleep, your body cream transfers to your sheets. So use some body oil to seal in the moisture!
Give Rough Patches More Love
Your legs are made up of different parts that work harder than others. Your shin doesn’t move throughout the day while your knees chafe and hinge. Dead skin accumulates more quickly in high-use areas than in other places, such as your heels and knees.
Give those areas a little extra attention with an oil-based body scrub after you’ve showered and your skin has had a chance to loosen up. This will remove the most dead skin possible and increase the likelihood that your legs will be as smooth as possible on every inch.
Learn to Love Hyaluronic Acid
A powerful moisturizer that can hold 1,000 times its weight in water is hyaluronic acid (HA). It is created by your body naturally, though as we get older, our bodies begin to produce less of it. That is one of the causes of the aging process of the skin’s smoothness.
Moisturizers that contain HA can save your life if you have dry skin. Even if you don’t frequently experience dryness, it offers superb surface-level hydration.
Shave in the Evening, Not the Morning
Because of the increased body temperature, while you sleep, your legs swell just a little bit. Your legs’ hair follicle bases may be covered by that swelling. Shaving in the morning will allow you to see the bristly hairs you missed because your body will have had time to cool and that slight swelling will have subsided.
To ensure the closest and smoothest shave possible, shave your legs at night.
Go Down before You Go Up
You may have heard that shaving closer results from going against the grain and shaving your leg up rather than down. This is true, but shaving upward first increases your risk of cuts and skin irritation if you haven’t shaved in a few days.
Give yourself a quick leg shave if your leg hairs are a little longer than they usually are. Following this, you can shave upward (against the grain) to achieve the closest result. This will remove the majority of the length.
Alternatives to Shaving Your Legs
Waxing
Waxing can be a wild ride, but it’s a great alternative if you want smooth legs.
When applying wax, apply it in the direction that your hair grows and then pull it outward, against the grain. Applying tea tree oil right away helps to give you smoother, bump-free legs.
Pro tip: Use a scrub to remove dead skin cells a day or two before waxing. With less redness and irritation, which occasionally persists after waxing, the process is cleaner and these side effects are reduced.
Electrolysis
Your legs’ hair follicles are damaged by an electric current during electrolysis, which prevents hair growth. Your one-time ticket to smoother legs without shaving could be this because it is permanent.
It usually costs money and calls for several protracted sessions. To never have to use a razor again, however, you might decide it’s worthwhile.
Laser Hair Removal
Even though laser hair removal isn’t as drastic or long-lasting as electrolysis, it’s still a very popular and viable alternative to shaving. Before the laser kills your hair follicles and slows growth, a protective gel will be applied to your legs.
The hair will regrow at some point. However, it is significantly faster than electrolysis and will ultimately save you hours of shaving time.
Even if you decide it’s time to say goodbye to your razor, consult a dermatologist first to find out which hair removal method is most effective for you.
Close Note: It Requires Effort
Although having silky-smooth legs is a wonderful thing, getting them requires effort. Do your research and select products that complement the natural oils in your body.
Make the appropriate moisturizing product selections and continue to follow your skin care regimen. With the minimum amount of effort, you’ll get those smooth legs with that.
