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Your essential guide to holiday skin care

Looking for the best skin care to take on a beach holiday? Whether you’re looking for sun cream for your cruise trip or a cleanser for your city break, we can help!

By Hannah Dowling

8 Minute read

Build your travel beauty routine with us as we help you pick the best summer holiday skin care routine.

Key points:

You’ve booked the trip, secured the time off, now get holiday-ready with us as we show you how to pack the perfect summer holiday skin care routine.

Your holiday skin care packing list:

  • Cleanser
  • Serum
  • Moisturiser
  • Facial sunscreen
  • Self tan
  • Sunscreen
  • After sun

Simple holiday skin care routines

Good things come in mini-packaging. Reveal your best skin glow when you cleanse, nourish and protect with this rejuvenating beach holiday skin care routine.

Perfectly sized for travelling, it contains a 30ml cleanser, moisturiser and SPF15 moisturiser – all packed with natural and organic goodness and no harsh ingredients.

For sensitive skin that needs the utmost calm and comfort, we have a dedicated fragrance-free skin care set ideal for a beach holiday.

Cleanse, nourish and protect with this trio of scent-free skin care minis. Clinically proven to be kind to sensitive skin.

Best tinted moisturiser for holiday

Looking for a tinted moisturiser for your holiday? Look no further than our Age Defy+ Tinted DD Cream with SPF15.

This fusion of skin care, make-up and sun care is all wrapped up into a smooth-as-silk natural tinted moisturiser. It glides onto skin, instantly giving flawless, lightweight coverage and a soft, dewy glow.

Better yet, it comes in a compact, non-spill 50ml tube and saves precious suitcase space as there’s no need to pack a heavy foundation!

I love the coverage of this product and the fact that it is a one stop product for sunscreen, moisturiser and coverage. I’ve actually replaced my foundation with this now.” Kristie

Discover more sizes and colours of tinted moisturiser to take on your holiday.

Best holiday serum

We cannot stress this enough: Hydrating skin care for your beach holiday is essential, especially if your destination involves the skin-drying combination of swimming, sunshine and sangria.

That’s why we always pack our Age Defy+ Collagen Boost Vitamin C Serum. Suitable for use day and night, this collagen support serum harnesses the hydrating power of Hyaluronic Acid to intensely hydrate the skin, smoothing out those pesky fine lines.

One reason why it is such a good holiday serum is that a little goes a long way! We apply it in the morning and evening, using it before our holiday sunscreen to keep our skin soft and hydrated throughout the day.

Try before you fly with our 10ml tube or brighten your skin’s day with the 30ml tube.

Best fake tan to use on holiday

For an easy way to get a fake tan before your holiday, choose our Age Defy+ Liquid Gold Tanning Drops.

Suitable for use on the face and body, these unscented holiday tan drops combine two tanning agents, allowing you to enjoy a longer-lasting glow without the tell-tale aroma of fake tan.

Best used at night, they couldn’t be easier to use, perfect for first-time holiday fake tanners!

To wake to a subtly sun-kissed glow, simply mix a few drops with your usual face cream or body lotion and apply before bed.

Prefer a deeper tan? Just add more drops until you achieve the desired colour, always protecting your skin with SPF before you go out in the sun.

Looking for the best fake tan to use on holiday? Glow & Protect SPF30 is the holiday fake tan for you, with high factor SPF30 built in and hydration, this 3-in-1 fake tanner is the intelligent way to glow.

Best sunscreen for beach holiday

Wherever you travel, you are going to need sunscreen for your beach holiday!  

Don’t fall into the trap of packing less than you need. Pack enough sunscreen to last you for the duration of your trip, being mindful that, to get the protection advertised on the tube, you’ll need to reapply liberally every 2-3 hours, as well as after swimming or towelling.

Looking for the best sunscreen for a beach holiday or the best holiday after sun? With travel-friendly sunscreen sizes to suit all skin types, Green People has you covered.

Try our bestseller, Scent Free Sun Cream SPF30. Fantastic for sensitive skin and those who may be prone to prickly heat, this natural and organic sunscreen is a must for any beach holiday.

Need a larger tube? View the larger size (200ml).

“So pleased I have discovered this product. I have just come back from a family holiday in Spain with my family. Last year my niece and I really suffered with prickly heat rash but this year we both used this suncream and neither of us had any prickly heat rash at all. So impressed.” Paula

“Excellent coverage, non-greasy, ocean friendly and the protection is superb. Used it in 40* Greece and didn’t burn once. At last a non-toxic sunscreen that is what it says!” Rachel

Need a facial sunscreen for your holiday? Our Scent Free Facial Sun Cream SPF30 moisturises, balances and protects, and is also rich in protective antioxidants.

Non-greasy, non-comedogenic and non-whitening, this fast-absorbing facial sun cream is a great choice for normal, dry or sensitive skin. 

Use our sun care routine finder for personalised holiday sun care recommendations or use the links below to add more of our most loved holiday sun care essentials to your suitcase.

REVIEWED BY CHARLOTTE, FOUNDER OF GREEN PEOPLE

This blog post has been reviewed by Charlotte Vøhtz, founder of Green People, who has 25+ years of experience in the natural and organic beauty industry.

A recognised leader in the field of organic beauty, Charlotte helped inform the UK's first organic beauty standards and was voted the People’s Choice in the 2023 list of Who’s Who in Natural Beauty.

A published author, she wrote the organic beauty bible ‘Naturally Gorgeous’. Previously, she qualified as a nurse and spent over 10 years working in pharmaceuticals.

Charlotte Vøhtz, founder of organic beauty brand Green People

 

If you need more help creating a holiday skin care routine, please get in touch with our friendly UK customer care team on 01403 740350. We’re always happy to help!

If you wish to republish this content, please credit Green People as the original creator with a link to "Your essential guide to holiday skin care." Please do not use an affiliate link.

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