Summer is about beach days, BBQs, concerts, outdoor weddings, and vacations. But it’s also about looking your best with glowy skin, great hair, and a cute manicure while smelling fabulous and wearing inspiring accessories. If you’re ready for a new routine or wardrobe, we’ve picked the go-to summer products for a stylish, healthy, and good pelo day during this heated season for all occasions.
Some of these are well-known brands that have upgraded their formula for better protection or created new products to give you a youthful feel, while others are Latine-owned brands keeping you prepared for the warm weather. Whether you’re using the products for this season, next year, or an upcoming tropical vacation, these are must-haves to be included in your routine.
Rizos Curls
Julissa Prado’s Latina-owned hair care brand, Rizos Curls, has a wide range of products, but their Beach Waves Texturizing Salt Spray is a great addition to the summer hair routine. It adds volume while nourishing your curls, unlike other salt sprays that tend to dry them out. With this you can get the style without having to go to the playa.
Dove
We all love a deodorant that won’t make a mess or leave white marks on your clothes, and Dove’s latest ones do that and more. Their VitaminCare+ deodorants will provide you with “healthy-feeling underarms” and come in six different scents. So there’s something for everyone to enjoy. This formula, which has vitamins B3 and E, also protects and nourishes your underarms while evening out your skin tone over time.
República Skin
Founded by Dominican Julissa Bermudez, República Skin’s Sugar Body Polish provides your body with the needed exfoliation and natural oils. With the promise of leaving “Skin Sweet as Sugar,” you’ll get rid of dry and dead skin while staying hydrated. Get ready to glow, glow, and glow some more this summer!
Lights Lacquer
Owned by Cuban-American entrepreneur and beauty influencer KathleenLights, Lights Lacquer’s Something Borrowed collection will have your mani/pedi ready whether you’re the bride, a bridesmaid, a guest, or a groom. With color names like Flower Girl, Love is Love, Nudely Weds, and Something Borrowed gemstones you’ll be ready for everything from rooftop happy hours, weddings, and even all kinds of water activities.
BeautyStat
Younger-looking skin without any medical procedures is what BeautyStat’s latest product offers. The Peptide Wrinkle Relaxing Moisturizer features a formula with “botox-like” ingredients that relax wrinkles and fine lines while firming sagging skin.
Cassava and Cane
Jewelry is a must to complete any outfit. And Afro-Latina owner Gloria Malone will not only have you blinged out but also feel empowered. Cassava and Cane offers affirmation-filled necklaces with words like Mujerón, Bendecida, Abundance, and more. Best of all, the pieces don’t tarnish or rust. They also have keychains!
Antedotum
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The sun can be your friend, offering the perfect tan. But it can also be your enemy, causing harmful side effects. Puerto Rican native Karina Perez-Marconi’s brand Antedotum has a daily hydrating sunscreen with 30 SPF that protects from sun damage and signs of aging. Available in full size and travel size, the Essential Daily Sunscreen will give you a healthy glow on the go without clogging your skin.
Shea Moisture
Protective styles during the summer are a must for some with Type 3 and 4 textured hair, and Shea Moisture’s Bond Repair Collection is excellent for that haircare journey that often results in hair loss from breakage. Their new formulation has natural ingredients like Amla Oil and Shea Butter, transforming dry and damaged hair into stronger strands from root to tip.
Kids of Immigrants
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With this new collection from Kids of Immigrants and Buchanan’s Whisky, the Family Reunion capsule, will provide the stylist fit you need during the summer. In this fourth collaboration, Honduran-American CEO and co-founder of the LA-based streetwear Daniel Buezo tributes his family reunions and expresses that “each piece is designed to honor our immigrant family reunions filled with love, good food, good music, games and most importantly FAMILY.”