Today let’s try making some exfoliating scrubs at home and slough off that unwanted dead skin. You no longer have to make a trip to a spa for a fresh-looking happy skin.
Homemade Exfoliators: Exfoliate Skin at Home
Buying an expensive product or going to a parlour isn’t always an ideal solution. Here are some exfoliation at home suggestions that will help. All you need is a home made exfoliator. Below are the recipes!
Oatmeal scrub:
Oatmeal is an excellent choice for homemade exfoliator for face especially.
- Make a paste mixing 2 tsp of ground oatmeal with 1 tsp of baking soda and water.
- Apply to face, gently rubbing in a circular motion and rinse well.
Lime and Ginger Salt Scrub:
This is an excellent scrub used by few spas and beauty salon can also be made at home to exfoliate skin.
For Lemon and salt scrub you will need:
- 2 inch piece of cucumber
- 1inch piece of ginger
- 1 cup of sea salt
- Zest of one lime
- Juice of half a lime
- 1 tbsp of almond oil (olive can be used as well)
Method:
- First peel the ginger and grate it coarsely, then zest (the outermost part of the rind of a lemon) the lime and squeeze out half the juice.
- Roughly chop the cucumber and place in a food processor with the ginger, lime, almond oil and sea salt, then blitz until you have a gritty texture then pour into a container.
- In the shower rub the scrub in firm circular movements into damp skin paying particular attention to the knees, elbows and ankles.
- Pat skin dry and follow with your favorite moisturizer.
The scrub needs to be stored in the fridge and will last 4-6 days depending on the freshness of the ingredients you use.
A lovely and smooth skin with the intoxicating smell of the ginger and lime should leave you feeling refreshed and invigorated.
Sugar Scrub:
When making an exfoliating sugar scrub at home
- Mix 2 tbsp. of sugar with 2 tbsp. of your favourite body oil (preferably almond or coconut oil).
- Leave the mixture plain, or add pureed strawberries, cucumbers or pumpkin, that soothes the skin, while the sugar granules exfoliate the dead skin cells.
- If possible, let the dissolved sugar and oil stay on your body for 5-10 minutes before you wash it off with water. Only wash off with water and do not use soap. Let the goodness of the oil penetrate the skin.
Raw sugar works best for exfoliating the body, as its texture is coarser, but when using a scrub on your face, choose the finer grain of table sugar.
Why Sugar and Salt?
Any sugar, white, brown, raw or cane, comes from sugarcane. So, sugar has glycolic acid (one of the most powerful AHA’s) in more or less concentration and this is why sugar is extremely good for exfoliation and softening of the skin.
Salt, on the other hand, is an extremely good detoxifying agent and is a cleanser too. Salt is useful in retaining water in the skin cells so it is a good hydrating agent too. If you’re using dead sea salt or any other exotic varieties of salt, those salts have minerals in them which are extremely useful for the skin.
This is why sugar and salt are the best exfoliators for your skin.
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Tips to Remember:
- Always be gentle with your skin taking care not to strip your skin off the natural oils and lipids
- Always choose gentle scrubs
- Fix a proper routine of your skin care
- Do not exfoliate daily
- Frequency of exfoliation should be decided according to your skin type
- Dry skin and Mature skin should be exfoliated at the most twice a week and products used should be moisturizing. An oil-based scrub would be the best.
- Oily skin and Combination skin can be exfoliated thrice a week but no more. Any scrub would be good but a clay-based one would be the best to absorb the oils from the skin.
- Normal skin can be exfoliated twice a week or as necessary.
Try these out these simple remedies and enjoy envious looks on your beautiful radiant skin.
How often do you exfoliate?
