Helpful Tips and What to Avoid if You Find Yourself Overexposed to UV Light 🌞

Moderate sun exposure is vital for overall health. When UVB rays reach the skin, they stimulate vitamin D production — a hormone crucial for bone strength, immune resilience, and even mood balance. The summer months are when our bodies naturally store up vitamin D, which helps sustain immunity through the darker winter season.

Home Remedies for Sun-Stressed Skin:

1. Cool it down with chilled herbal compresses

-Brew chamomile or green tea, chill in the fridge, and use as a soothing compress

-For extra healing, saturate the compress with hydrosols like rose, calendula, lavender, or rose geranium

-Try chilling your Active Spray and applying

2. Soothe and hydrate

-Apply fresh aloe vera or a cooling honey mask

Pro Tip: Mix Activist Honey Mask with Active Spray or Rose Geranium Hydrosol for added relief

3. Replenish and repair

-Use Marie Veronique Barrier Restore Serum or Hydration Mask

Pro Tip: Store them in the fridge for a refreshing boost during summer

What Not to Do for Sun-Stressed Skin

When your skin is feeling burned or sensitive, less is more. Here’s what to avoid:

1. Skip heavy oils or occlusive balms right away — they can trap heat and slow healing

2. Avoid hot showers and harsh scrubs — they’ll further irritate fragile skin

3. Stay away from alcohol-based toners or "tingly" products — they can worsen inflammation

4. Hold off on active ingredients like retinols, acids, or exfoliants until your skin has fully recovered

Your skin needs calmness, hydration, and time to heal — not a full routine.

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After Care Sun Products in Store:

Active Repair Spray: Active Skin Repair Spray is a medical-grade treatment for everyday skin repair. It is simple to use, multi-functional, and helps support the body’s natural healing process.

Active Spray works on: Inflamed acne lesions, inflamed ingrown hairs, minor wounds, cuts, scrapes, sunburns, normal burns, chaffing, rashes, insect bites, and other skin irritations. Keep this in your bathroom cabinet and use anytime you need a natural skin repair.

The technology used in Active Skin Repair's Spray is the same doctor-recommended and clinically proven molecule used in hospitals and households worldwide.

Project Reef After Sun Aloe Mist: The Cooling Mist is packed with only the GOOD stuff—everything we love about our Cooling Lotion formula, now in a convenient, non-aerosol mist. With just a spritz, Organic Aloe Vera, Lavender, and Peppermint Essential Oils work together to soothe, hydrate, and refresh your skin.

Perfect for daily use or as a quick pick-me-up whenever you need a cooling, rejuvenating boost, this mist provides an instant sensory experience, leaving your skin feeling calm and revitalized.

Instantly hydrates sun-exposed skin

Visibility improves redness and irritation from sun burns

Supports cell production and healing

Activist Honey Mask: This thoughtfully crafted offering is a result of our Mānuka Honey’s cult following as a multifaceted and completely natural healing beauty treatment. Formulated especially for topical and wet bathroom use and to make the application of this magical skin hero more intuitive and sensual. The natural derived powers of Manuka Honey are unrivaled at helping repair skin damage and revealing a healthy glow. Use as a face mask, skin cleanser and spot treatment. ACTIVIST Mānuka Honey Mask is extremely hydrating, promotes skin regeneration, repairs cellular damage, calms inflammation and lessens the appearance of scars.

Mānuka Honey Mask can be used for topical natural treatment of rosacea, eczema, psoriasis, acne, wounds and burns. The Mānuka Honey can be used for dietary and nutritional supplements. Mānuka is great to have on hand to aid in the treatment of burns or wounds, the methylglyoxal enzymes within the honey create a natural hydrogen peroxide that works as an antibacterial. It can also be used topically to soothe acne and other skin conditions such as eczema and dermatitis.

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By balancing sun exposure with mindful after-care, you can enjoy all the vitality and immunity the sun provides while keeping your skin radiant and resilient.

We can’t wait to support you,

Cleo Team