Do you have a face scrub at home? I’m sure that 80% of you will give me an affirmative answer. Do you apply it regularly? And now I expect a half of you to nod their heads. Do you even know what the purpose of exfoliating is? You don’t? That’s bad because exfoliation is one of the most essential skincare treatments ensuring good-looking skin! For that reason, today I’m going to give you all the advantages of exposing your face to scrubs regularly. Read on and feel encouraged to leave a comment!
Face & body scrubs: What are these?
It carries many names, but ‘scrub’ is the most popular one describing the process of removing dead epidermal cells. Basically, you can find this treatment as exfoliation or skin peel treatment. These names may evoke associations with some intensive and invasive beauty treatments that require an experienced cosmetologist to perform them. As it turns out, helping your skin get free from dead epidermal cells is banal and easy to do. Nobody should experience problems with performing superficial exfoliation at home.
How does an exfoliating agent work?
Exfoliating agents – as the name speaks for itself – take off dead skin cells along with other impurities that gathered on skin’s surface. At the same time, this procedure reveals new, smooth and beautiful skin. By affecting your skin from the outside (no matter if you use mechanical or enzymatic scrubs), you help it carry out all the self-renewal processes and improve regeneration that takes place during 28-day skin cycle. Also, such treatment improves blood supply in skin. Thanks to exposing the face to exfoliating scrubs, we remove impurities, dead cells, we unclog skin pores and prevent comedones. There is no better skin regeneration treatment like a good face scrub!
What age should you start exfoliating the skin at?
There is no clear border that once crossed, you should start applying scrubs to your face straightaway. Actually, the sooner you begin, the better condition your skin should be in. And the better the skin functions, the slower it ages. Therefore, you can reach for exfoliating scrubs no matter the age you are. What’s important though, make sure that the product you use is made from quality ingredients and answers your skin needs.
When SHOULDN’T you exfoliate the skin?
Although age isn’t a contraindication to exposing your skin to skin peel treatment, there are come skin conditions that shouldn’t be in contact with exfoliating scrubs:
- acne rosacea
- cold sore
- skin inflammations
- viral, fungal and bacterial infections
- skin marks and growths
- allergy to some of the scrub’s components
- couperose skin (you can make use of enzymatic peel only)
What are the benefits of using exfoliating scrubs?
- Removes dead and completely unnecessary skin cells.
- Improves and encourages skin to carry out self-renewal processes faster.
- Prepares skin for absorbing other nourishing substances.
- Evens out skin tone.
- Improves blood flow in skin.
- Softens and smooths skin out.
- Aids skin in fighting back cellulite.
- Prevents ingrown hair.
- Reduces skin roughness.
- Lights skin up and makes it revived.
- Prepares skin for sunbathing.
- Contains nutrients that skin should be supplied with.
How often should you exfoliate?
Well, don’t do this too often – your skin doesn’t need such over-protection. However, when it comes to foot peel, you can carry it out more often because skin located on your feet is able to regenerate pretty fast. Sometimes it happens that even two peel treatments performed a week aren’t enough to smooth the skin out effectively. Actually, I’d like to recommend you using exfoliating socks that are a fairly specific kind of exfoliation that owes its effectiveness to acids. In my view, foil exfoliating socks are the best form of foot skin peel available currently on the market.
When it comes to body scrub, do it once a week, unless you suffer from cellulite – then you can expose the skin parts affected by orange peel more often.
Face scrub? Go for it twice a month. In the case of acne-prone skin, go can apply scrubs on a weekly basis. This will help your skin unclog its pores and remove the buildup of sebum.
Naturally, you can make use of the regular cosmetics available in a shop or prepare your own skin exfoliator. Many girls consider home coffee body scrub as the best one (it also fights back cellulite). Other ingredients that you can use to prepare your D.I.Y. body and face scrub are:
- natural beauty oils
- oat flakes
- sugar
- honey
- salt (various size of grains – depends on the body part you want to use the exfoliator to)
Do you like exfoliating your skin? Do you have fave exfoliating agents? Don’t hesitate to express your opinion in comments!
