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These Self-Care Products Will Refresh Your Summer Routine

And not a single one of them is a sheet mask.

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All it takes is one visit to your favorite retailer's website to see that the idea of self-care has gone mainstream. These days, everything from sheet masks to cookware is being marketed as an essential tool to help ease your stress — and no hate to sheet masks, but I can only do so many of them in the name of self-care before I don't feel any benefit beyond more hydrated skin.

On the flip side of the same argument, the popularity of self-care has created a demand for more affordable and attainable products, making the practice more accessible for everyone. And considering the seismic changes to our daily lives in the past five months, I'm betting we all may be ready to explore what new products could work in our own routines.

Knowing that our routines will vary wildly from each other's, I shopped around to source a range of products that will refresh practically any self-care practice this summer. Here's what I found:

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