How to Make Body Scrub
The LCK team has been using these DIY scrub for a few weeks now and have been loving it. not merely does it smell AMAZING, but it leaves your bark spirit rejuvinated and moisturized. We love a good deep scale, particularly as leap is around the corner and the winter skin is coming in strong ! We were in love with our Chocolate Coconut Body Scrub during the vacation season, so we wanted to expand ! Making a body cancel at home is then bare and we ’ re going to give you the details on how to make body scrub using all natural ingredients, many of which can be found inside your pantry right now. You can customize them based off of your skin needs and use up to a few times a week !
Why is it important to exfoliate your skin
A sugar scrub or salt cancel, besides known as an exfoliator, is a buy or homemade merchandise that helps the skin rid the body of all in hide cells that then reveals healthy, glow skin. While our consistency naturally sheds dead skin cells, as we age this process slows down and the dead skin can get backed up causing pores to get clogged, and making skin dry, rough in, muffle and patched.
What are the benefits of exfoliating
- Helps remove dead skin cells.
- Your other products will work better since exfoliating your face eliminates the dead skin on top, it lets your cleanser, moisturizer and other products penetrate more deeply and work better.
- Can increase blood circulation (which helps you to achieve healthy and glowing skin)
- Unclog pores from dirt, blackheads, and other surface impurities so that new, healthy skin may flourish!
- Exfoliating helps skin turn over its top dermal layer more often, so you can address a multitude of problems such as dryness and flakiness.
Who benefits from exfoliation?
All skin types can benefit from a body scrub. Your bark type will depend on how often you use it. People with normal/dry peel might use an exfoliator 2-3 times a workweek, while people with more sensitive skin might use it just once a week. We don ’ thyroxine recommend using this at all on your confront. This recipe for torso cancel is intended for the soundbox only ( as the diagnose suggests ! )
Ingredients in a Body Scrub
A bunch of commercially produce scrubs and exfoliators include coarse family ingredients like salt and boodle and oatmeal, but besides contain a lot of other ingredients that may or may not be dependable for your torso. If you already own a body scrub, or have used one in the past you can check it ’ mho safety from this web site here. We love the mind of using family ingredients that can exfoliate and moisturize your clamber naturally. Plus it ’ second thus much more economical ! 
DIY Body Scrub
Start with a free-base ingredient, or the chief exfoliant, and then add in your anoint, followed by a few playfulness circuit board options !
Base:
You can choose between sugar or salt. There are options below for how vigorous you want the scale process to be.
- Brown Sugar: This is a a very soft exfoliant and as a bonus adds moisture.
- Coconut Sugar: This is a larger grain of sugar and is a rougher moisturizer. If using this, depending on your add-in you may need to use a bit more of the carrier oil (see below).
- Kosher Salt, or other large crystal of salt: This is a rougher exfoliator, and is particularly good with lemon.
- Pink Himalayan Sea Salt: This is the salt we keep around for cooking. It is a finer salt, so a more gentle exfoliant while also having the added benefit of the minerals it naturally contains.
Oils:
These oils or carrier oils help the body scrub apply smoothly and helps moisturize the clamber. You can use one of these or do a combination.
- Almond Oil: This is high in Vitamin E, can protect your skin from harmful UV radiation, and easily penetrates the skin which can help clean out your pores.
- Jojoba Oil: This oil is similar to the oil naturally found on your skin. It absorbs fairly quickly.
- Coconut Oil: This oil is an amazing moisturizer and has natural antibacterial properties.
- Avocado Oil: This is high in Vitamins A, D, and E and can help sooth inflammation.
- Olive Oil: Commonly found in our kitchens! It is heavier and absorbs slower on the skin. Be sure to use the best possible olive oil you can find (pure/cold pressed/organic).
Add-ins:
Some of these have specific benefits for your skin while others just add a pleasant odorize that can help brighten your sidereal day.
- Essential Oils ( we like lavender, lemongrass, tea tree, lemon and peppermint but feel detached to experiment )
- Finely Ground Coffee ( the caffeine and antioxidants are said to be good for your bark )
- Lemon, Orange, or Lime Zest ( this adds a brilliantly scent ! )
- Ground Oatmeal ( this is an total exfoliant, plus it soothes the peel )
- Honey ( this is a natural cleansing agent ! )
- Lemon Juice ( a natural astringent, be careful using this with very sensitive skin )
- Herbs & Spices ( suck as thyme, rosemary or cinnamon )
- Cocoa Powder ( this is senior high school in antioxidants )
- Vitamin E Oil ( is said to have anti-aging properties )
- Aloe Vera ( is said to be good on acne prone and dry hide and has anti-inflammatory properties )
- Argan Oil ( is a great moisturizer and can help with acne )
- Castille Soup (add this if you want your scrub to also double as a cleanser, we like Dr. Bronner’s)
How to use a body scrub
How to use them: Soften your skinin a warm shower for a few minutes, cleanse your body if desired, and then grab a dollop of the body scrub and lightly scrub in a circular gesture on clean, harsh skin. Rinse wholly. Moisturize afterwards ! We recommend about once a week, but you can go up to 2-3 times a workweek to tackle in truth dry and rocky peel.
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Can you over exfoliate your skin
Yes, and some skin is more sensitive than others. aggressive scale can lead to annoy and bolshevik skin. We recommend exfoliating 1-3 times a workweek ! Print
How to Make Body Scrub (& Why You Should Exfoliate!)
Print Recipe ★★★★★ 5 from 2 reviews
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients
Scale
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1 cup
sugar or salt
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½ cup
petroleum
- Add-ins ( use 6-12 drops of all-important oils if using, or about 2 teaspoons other add-ins )
Instructions
- In a medium blend all ingredients and shuffle with a smooch until amply combined .
- plaza lightly ( do not pack it down ) in a jolt with a taut fit lid and use weekly or every few days on body .
Notes
You can tweak your body scrub depending on how you you want it to feel and smell.
Don ’ thyroxine institute glassware into the shower. A reader wrote to us and shared a fib of bring a glass jar in the exhibitor and incidentally dropping it and cutting herself. So we wanted to spell this out that for guard reasons if you are using a glass jolt keep it out of the shower. Or use a fictile container.
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