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Exfoliation is a quick and easy way to achieve healthy, brighter looking skin. By gently scrubbing away the dead skin cells from your body and face, the fresh, newer skin is exposed. Natural exfoliation has long been a part of daily beauty routines in the form of muds and clays.
Aromantic sells several great, natural exfoliants for use in professional cosmetics as well as homemade body scrubs and DIY exfoliating face scrubs. In this blog you will discover some of these fantastic natural skin exfoliants and learn more about how often to exfoliate and why it is an important step in your skincare routine.
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Skincare routines often focus on how we cleanse, tone, and moisturise our skin, meaning exfoliation is a key step that can often get overlooked.
It does not matter how good daily face creams, toners, or serums are if the skin is thickened with dead skin cells. Their ability to work and penetrate the skin's deeper layers will be severely hindered.
There are different estimates that suggest that an adult human can shed roughly 200,000,000 skin cells every hour. Many dead skin cells can stay on our skin for a long time, which causes it to look dull, dry, and rough. This also makes the skin difficult to look after.
Naturally exfoliating the skin on your body and face regularly will ensure that dead skin cells are removed from your skin. If you regularly scrub these areas, it will improve the appearance of your skin – leaving behind fresher, healthier skin that will feel and look much smoother. Your wonderful gels, serums, creams, lotions, and butters will then be able to get right to work on your skin.
Natural exfoliation on the body and face is beneficial, but many people are unsure how often to do this. Some may exfoliate very frequently, while others not frequently enough. If you have very dry, flaky skin, it is essential to exfoliate it regularly. Below discover how often you should be using a natural exfoliant on the body, feet and hands, and the face, neck, and sensitive skin.
Generally, exfoliating the skin of your hands and body should be done on a weekly basis. Especially those areas which are exposed to the elements frequently and where skin is often dry and rough will benefit from the use of a natural exfoliant scrub on a regular basis.
If you have hard skin on your feet, exfoliating that off with a natural homemade scrub will make your feet so much more comfortable.
When it comes to the skin on the face, neck, and other sensitive areas, they should only be exfoliated once every one to two weeks.
Some people believe that regularly exfoliating their skin at home gives them a new, healthier appearance, however doing it too frequently and over stimulating the skin's oil production can cause some damage. When you overstimulate your skin's natural oil production, it can cause several problems such as a bigger blemish. Even so, to see permanent improvement to the skin should exfoliate regularly and on an ongoing basis.
There are several natural exfoliants you can use as rinse off scrubs, and which all have different attributes. When used appropriately they are effective exfoliants which work well at leaving the skin soft and refreshed.
Jojoba Exfoliating Grains are the gentlest to use on your face. They are the waxy part ofJojoba Oil and are spherical. This means that there are no jagged edges to scratch or damage the delicate skin of your face. With pressure, the little spheres break down, meaning they are best for delicate facial skin and not for hard skin on your feet.
Organic Exfoliant Cupuaçu comes from the seeds of the Cupuaçu tree in the Amazon rainforest. It has a very faint aroma of cocoa, as the tree is related to cocoa plants. It can safely be used on your face as well as on your body.
Bamboo Exfoliant comes from the knobbly parts that you see on a bamboo cane. Add them to a thick gel and scrub lightly on your skin to gently exfoliate the face. If you press a lot harder, you can exfoliate your feet - It really depends on how much pressure is applied. Bamboo Exfoliant would work well in a thick cream such as a foot cream.
Apricot Kernel Powder is made from the smashed-up stones of apricots, which have been cleaned and dried. They have jagged edges and are particularly good for exfoliating your body with. However, they are a bit too harsh for use on the face.
Himalayan Salt has a distinctive pink colour, which you will most likely be familiar with. The natural salt crystals are fine enough to be effective in natural feet and body scrubs but are a little too large for face scrubs.
ThisFoaming Bath and Shower Kit includes Himalayan Salt in a gorgeous Emulsified Salt Scrub that rinses off so easily.
Pumice Powder comes from crushed and graded volcanic rocks, so it does a fantastic job of removing the hard skin from feet. It is too harsh for use in diy exfoliating face scrubs, though.
Any of the natural exfoliants above can be added to creams, lotions, and butters, but they are usually added to a gel. Try thisEasy Exfoliant Gel recipe and get started creating your own homemade body scrubs and face scrubs.
After you have rinsed off the exfoliant, you should protect your skin from damage. It is important that you do not go sunbathing withoutsun protection. To condition your fresh-looking skin, apply your favourite oil serum or moisturiser.
If you’ve been inspired to create your own homemade body or face scrub, take a look at ourfree cometic recipes to see what you could make using the exfoliants discussed above.
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