Cleanse Your Body Right: How Shower Gels Can Transform Your Bathtime Routine

Bathing is not just a cleansing routine, it is your me-time away from the hustle and bustle of the city, to unwind and relax. Make your shower time sacred with the right routine and exotic fragrances that will lift your mood right up. Bar soaps are great in their way but body washes hold a special space in our hearts. The invigorating and energising gel-like texture and aromatics can turn your simple, everyday bathing routine into an indulgent affair. Elevate your daily routine with a simple switch to make it more skin-loving and luxurious.

Read ahead to learn what exactly a shower gel is and how do you use shower gel to make the most of it to rejuvenate your skin.

What Is A Shower Gel?

Before we learn how to use shower gel or body gel, let’s see what it is to begin with. A shower gel is a liquid or gel-like substance that cleanses your skin. But it does so much more than that. Unlike bar soaps, body washes or shower gels aren’t solid and glide easily on your skin. They are also often packed with active ingredients and moisturising agents that are more hydrating than bar soaps. Moreover, if you are a germophobe like me, body washes also make it easier and hygienic since every drop is untouched. Shower gels are also great for humid climates and tropical locations where there is no melting of the bar soaps through the container.

How To Use Shower Gel?

This is how to use body wash gel in a few simple steps:

Step 1: Start by wetting your body with lukewarm water. Wetting your body before you apply the body wash makes it easier to spread. Use warm or lukewarm water for bathing as it opens your pores and allows the product to enter the outer layers of your skin and hydrate, cleanse, and repair from within.

Step 2: Take a small amount of gel on your loofa or your palms. A coin-sized amount should do it, but you can take as much as you want depending on how much you want the product to lather.

Step 3: Rub your hands together to create a lather and start applying the body wash to your skin. The lather is what cleanses your body. Start with small circular motions starting from your neck, torso, back, underarms, and legs. Make sure you don’t leave any spot.

Step 4: Rinse the lather off your skin thoroughly and make sure you don’t leave any residue. Use cold or room-temperature water to clean it off as cold water helps in tightening your open pores and trapping all the luxurious goodness from the body wash.

Step 5: Use a thick towel to dab off excess water, dab don’t rub since freshly washed skin is more fragile than any other time and rubbing a thick dry towel can cause irritation.

Step 6: Follow it up with a body lotion or a moisturiser to ensure complete hydration and nourishment.

Which Is The Best Shower Gel?

There is such thing as the best shower gel, every body and skin type needs a different type of care and formulation to feel energised, cleansed, and rejuvenated. Here are a few shower gels you can try to solve a particular concern.

Legacy Formula, Now Advanced

If are a fan of the OG Pears bar soap but want to move to shower gels, this is the perfect transition essential. The 200-year-old legacy continues with advanced packaging. Formulated with natural oils, water, citric acid, and glycerin this shower gel is free of soap and other harmful chemicals.

Hydrating With Hyaluronic Acid

Foxtale recently launched its body wash collection and this hydrating body wash is their bestseller for all the right reasons. It’s made with hyaluronic acid, ceramides, and Centella extract to deeply soothe skin, repair the skin barrier, and boost hydration up to five times the skin’s natural moisture production capacity.

Brightening Affect With Vitamin C

Give your skin a glow booster with this exfoliating and ultra-cleansing body wash. Made with vitamin C, silica, and stearic acid this body wash helps brighten and even out skin tone, hydrates the skin while locking in the moisture, and reveals softer, glowing skin that is suitable for all skin types.

Gentle Exfoliation With Vitamin E

Say goodbye to bumpy, textured, and uneven skin with this vitamin E-infused body wash. The 4% lactic acid and salicylic acid help remove dead skin cells, increase cell turnover, and reveal soft, even-textured skin.

Gentle Exfoliation With Vitamin E

Troubled with back acne or body acne in general? It’s time to switch your body wash with a salicylic acid-infused shower gel into your body care routine. It’s free from sulphates, and parabens, suitable for skin types, and gentle. It deeply cleanses and exfoliates the skin to reduce the appearance and fight acne on your skin.

Intense Hydration From Within

Made with 5% niacinamide and aloe vera, this body wash aims to intensely hydrate your skin, even out your skin tone, strengthen the skin barrier, soothe inflammation, and lock in moisture. It’s cruelty-free, paraben-free, sulphate-free, and mineral-free making it suitable for all skin types.

Luxurious Indulgence

Made with Japanese cherry blossom, Asian pear, fresh mimosa petals, white jasmine, and blushing sandalwood this body wash offers a fragrance that’s beautiful, timeless, and undeniably feminine. It produces a light bubbly lather that’s gentle and luxurious.

In-House Formulation

Available in 13 aromatic variations, this range of rich and creamy lather-infused shower gels gently cleanses and hydrates with a long-lasting fragrance. Experience the beauty of nature and the enchantment of flowers, and make every shower time sacred.

Can Shower Gel Be Used Daily?

Shower gels can be used every day given it’s a gentle and mild formula. If your body wash helps manage the pH levels of your skin and strengthens your skin barrier, then you can use a shower gel twice a day as well. Since we live in a humid environment, showering twice is the norm and using a shower gel twice is considered perfectly okay.

Other Products To Use Along With Shower Gel

Other than a shower gel, there are other things you can use to make your shower time more special.

Body Scrub

Now using a body scrub before an everyday shower may not be possible, but it is possible to do before an everything shower – a shower where you do everything to moisture yourself from head to toe. A body scrub will exfoliate your skin to clean out all the clogged pores, improve blood circulation, and rejuvenate your skin.

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Shower Glove

If loofahs and hands don’t give you the satisfaction, and you are looking for something that lathers up like a loofah and gives precision reach like your hands, you need to get a shower glove. Simple add the shower gel on the glove, rub your hands together and start scrubbing.

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Shower Spray

If you are someone who experiences nasal congestion, stiffness, or even stress, this shower spray is going to heal every bit of discomfort with an aromatic fragrance. Just spritz some of this eucalyptus essence when the shower steams up to clear out any of your congestion.

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Body Lotion

Once you are done with your shower, it’s time to lock in that moisture with a cream-based moisturiser such as body lotions or cream. This ensures your pores are packed with hydration boosters to constantly keep your skin soft and supple.

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Parting Thoughts

We hope you learned how to use a body wash because a relaxing shower at the end of a tiring day can really ease you into the night. If you are wondering how to use shower gel without a loofah, it is nothing to worry about, you can always take some product onto the palm of your hands and rub them together to create a foam. Choose the ingredients your body needs in order to be the best self and get yourself a shower gel that soothes you from within.

FAQs

1. What is shower gel?

   A shower gel is a liquid or gel-like substance that cleanses your skin for an energised and rejuvenated feel. It can be infused with a lot of active ingredients and skin-loving acids to target specific concerns such as body acne, dehydration, dullness, and uneven texture.

2. Should I use a washcloth or loofah with shower gel?

   You can use a shower gel without a washcloth or a loofah, your hands can do the same job. But for extra lather and foam, it is ideal to use an applicator such as a loofah.

3. How much shower gel should I use?

   You can use two coin-sized amounts of shower gel for your whole body. If your packaging has a pump dispenser, two or three pumps should do the job.

4. Is shower gel suitable for all skin types?

   Yes, shower gels that are available over the counter that focus on hydration, oil control, and evening out the skin tone and texture are all generally suitable for all skin types.