07/12/2026
✨Here’s a peek at this year’s health fair where I was invited back to to sprinkle some healthy skin advice for the kiddos! I tried to get them familiar with some of wonderful skincare brands that are safe and effective for young skin, easily available, and won’t break the bank🙂. There’s so much skincare marketing and misinformation aimed at this age group. I wanted to show them that less is often more and share a few simple habits that can make a difference for their skin for years to come.
Here are some of the tips I try to hone for the elementary and middle school age groups:
🫧Wash your face and brush your teeth twice daily. When you do one, do the other. It’s a good lifelong habit to keep.
🫧Shower daily and after sweating. When you are young and healthy, you readily produce oils. When those oils mix with bacteria on the skin — and especially on the scalp and in skin folds — we get stinky. So we must regularly use gentle cleansers for face and body and shampoos for scalp to control oil production and limit overproduction of unwanted bacteria. *Not all bacteria are bad and, yes, our healthy skin has a normal balance of microbes. It’s when that balance becomes offset, we can run into issues. So gentle, effective, and consistent hygiene habits keep your skin (and your friends) happy.🙂
🫧 Sunscreen is not your ticket to be in the sun. It filters the sunlight; it doesn’t block it. So you can put it on, but you still want to avoid direct sun exposure when you can choose to avoid it. So find the shade or cover up when you can.
🫧No tanning beds. Ever. I don’t care if it’s prom or your wedding day or someone offers you a million dollars to do it. Your answer should always be no. One session in a tanning bed in a lifetime increases melanoma risk (the skin cancer that takes lives) by 75%.😳 Avoid tanning beds at all costs.
These kids are such a joy. I am always grateful for the opportunity to share health advice with them!
I hope you are all having a relaxing, skin-safe summer!☀️🕶️🌴🍉🌻⛱️🧴
💖,
Jeanne
