Beauty: Beating The Heat With A Spritzer

Summertime and the living is … refreshing, thanks to facial sprays. Canned or bottled, aerosol or pumped, scented or fragrance-free, these hydrating mists cool parched visages.

Lavender notes spring up in Decléor's Fresh Hydrating Mist ($22; sephora.com). Linden blossoms perfume the Toning Floral Water by style child Stella McCartney ($35; sephora.com). Parisian brand Sisley offers hints of rose in its Eau Florale ($65; saksfifthavenue.com). Ole Henriksen's Balancing Cucumber Face Mist harnesses the vegetable's soothing properties ($21; olehenriksen.com).

Natura Bissé won't reveal the ingredients in its Diamond Mist ($79; neimanmarcus.com), but The Mist from La Mer proudly touts its marine extracts ($50; saksfifthavenue.com). With restrictions on liquids, jet-setters should stick to the travel-size Moisture Bound Skin Energy Hydration Delivery System from Amore Pacific ($35; bergdorfgoodman.com).

Getting back to basics, La Roche-Posay's Thermal Spring Water contains natural minerals and no fragrances or additives ($9 for 150ml; larocheposay.us). And the Brumisateur from Evian contains little more than water from the French Alps ($10; sephora.com). But Evian knows a thing or two about water.

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