The Best Products for Healing Your Skin and Hair After Long Days in the Sun

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Now that summer is here, many of us are spending more time outdoors by the pool and at the beach — all under the hot sun. As a result, we all experience some form of skin and hair damage, and while it’s next to impossible to completely protect your skin and hair at all times, there are steps you can take to help restore them to a healthier state afterwards.

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From hydrating hair masks and treatments to nourishing body care products and more, we’ve put together a guide to some of the best products for healing your skin and hair after a long summer. Read on to discover and shop, and be sure to let us know in the comments below if you have any favorites!

Babor’s Doctor Babor After Sun Hydration Recovery Lotion ($50)

With the 12% Ectoin Aloe Vera Complex, this after sun lotion helps soothe and refresh sun-stressed skin for a healthy-looking appearance. Enriched with the exclusive DOCTOR BABOR BIOGEN PLANT EXTRACT, the product supports the skin’s natural appearance and promotes a radiant, youthful-looking skin.

At the same time, the After Sun Hydration Recovery Lotion provides a light but nourished and soothed skin feel. The delicate texture melts into the skin and leaves it feeling pampered and nourished. The olfactory interplay between freshness, a gentle floral bouquet and woody notes rounds off the care moment.

CV Skinlabs Rescue + Relief Spray ($15-$36)

For instant cooling relief, this provides advanced therapy for burned, wounded, and inflamed skin. This refreshing milky emulsion provides deep, hydrating moisture while calming and soothing flushed, sensitive skin. A multitasking formula, it brings instant, cooling relief to itching, burning, irritated, and inflamed skin caused by sun exposure, rosacea, eczema, rashes, laser treatments, chemical peels, shaving, waxing, minor burns, and radiation treatments. Features a gentle natural cucumber scent. Tip: also great on skin after shaving!

LALICIOUS The Oil ($38)

Restore and illuminate from head to toe with this exquisite formula designed to provide powerful anti-aging and anti-oxidant benefits in one multi-use product. Nourish your skin with this intimate blend of peach nectar, coconut milk, and creamy musks.

Lather Avocado Mint Hair Repair ($19)

This deep-conditioning treatment provides intensive moisture therapy to restore strength and shine to dry or damaged hair. Includes avocado oil, emollient shea butter, macadamia seed oil, and jojoba oil to lock in moisture. Peppermint and tea tree oils tone and stimulate the scalp. Free of parabens, sulfates, mineral oil, and synthetic fragrance/colors.

Sun Bum Deep Conditioning Hair Mask ($3.49)

This hair mask was specifically formulated to restore essential hydration and enhance overall softness and smoothness to dry, damaged or over-processed hair. It’s infused with amla and bamboo extract to help strengthen hair, making it resilient and more manageable. Also safe for color-treated hair.

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Kamala Kirk is a University of Southern California graduate and has been an editor/writer for more than a decade. She has written for E! Online, Total Beauty, TravelAge West, Malibu Times Magazine, and many more. She resides in Los Angeles and is a proud pug mom. Follow her on Instagram: @kamalakirk