Salt Facial Scrubs
Girls in pursuit of beauty have long used improvised means, including food - fruits, vegetables, cereals, dairy products. They were used in face and hair masks as natural cosmetics, rinses. But a separate place in facial skin care has always been occupied by a scrub. What it is? A scrub is a cream or gel containing solid particles, due to which cleansing occurs.
Of course, now, in the 21st century, we can find a huge number of scrubs, gels and facial peels on the shelves of cosmetic stores - our eyes run wide from what to choose. Any girl should have a professional scrub at home - but what if there is an important event on the nose, and the cherished favorite tube is over? That's right, make your own scrub.
Efficacy and contraindications
The most popular component for making homemade scrubs can rightly be called edible salt. Our grandmothers also noted that she:
- Has excellent antiseptic properties;
- Perfectly cleanses the skin, exfoliates dead skin particles and eliminates small peeling;
- Cleans pores, eliminates blackheads and cleanses the ducts of the sebaceous glands (which is especially important for oily, combination and problem skin);
- Tones and moisturizes, improves elasticity;
- With constant use, it whitens post-acne, age spots and accelerates healing, eliminates shallow first wrinkles;
- Accelerates blood circulation and saturates the skin with beneficial micro and macro elements. Not every professional scrub is capable of such an impact.
However, if you still decide to make a salt scrub at home, you must remember about contraindications. It:
- Sensitive skin;
- Intolerance to scrub components - salt and additional;
- Large scratches and damage to the skin;
If you do not suffer from any of the above, then immediately run to the kitchen for salt and start creating a unique beauty product.
Application Tips
- The procedure of cleansing with a salt scrub is recommended to be used in the evening - as the skin turns red under the influence of salt. By the way, salt scrub can be used for the body.
- Before using the scrub itself, it is worth cleansing the skin in any everyday way - with a gel or foam, and also walk with a cotton pad with micellar water or make-up remover milk. For a deeper effect, the skin can be steamed over a water bath.
- The scrub is applied to wet, cleansed skin with massage movements, without touching the area around the eyes and lips.
- After the procedure, wash your face with cool or barely warm water - and ideally mineral or thermal. If you wish, go over the skin with a cube of cosmetic ice - to eliminate irritation and close the pores.
- The final touch is the application of a moisturizer.
- This scrub should not be used more than once a week.
Recipes
The main ingredient, of course, is salt. You can use it solo, or you can add a couple of the same available ingredients and get an even more effective scrub.
For oily and combination skin
Ingredients: table or sea salt, lemon, yogurt (or any other thick fermented milk product - sour cream, kefir)
Pour one teaspoon of salt crushed in a coffee grinder into a bowl, add a spoon and a half of lemon juice. Mix it all up to a paste. After - two tablespoons of yogurt (sour cream, kefir). Apply the composition to steamed and damp skin of the face and gently massage with your fingertips for two minutes. Wash off after five minutes with cool water, apply cream. If you feel an unbearable burning sensation or tingling, rinse immediately.
For dry or normal skin
Ingredients: sea or table salt, egg (yolk), fat sour cream (mayonnaise).
Add one yolk and one tablespoon of sour cream (mayonnaise) to one teaspoon of salt. Stir the ingredients quite a bit, then apply to cleansed and damp skin. Massage for one to two minutes, hold on the face for seven to ten minutes. Wash off with warm water and apply moisturizer.
Facial scrub mask made of salt and cosmetic clay for all skin types
Ingredients: finely ground salt, honey, egg (yolk) or sour cream, clay (depending on the type of skin: for oily - green or white, for dry - pink or red, for normal, any will do).
Mix pre-ground salt (one teaspoon) with the same amount of clay suitable for you.Melt honey in a water bath, add to salt and clay, and one yolk or one tablespoon of sour cream there. Mix gently and apply to cleansed and damp skin, massage for one to two minutes, rinse after ten. At the end, as always, apply a moisturizer. Reviews of such a scrub-mask are amazing - the tone evens out, the skin becomes firm and elastic, the pores are cleansed. In addition to cleansing, it promotes tightening and smoothing.
For the face of salt with the addition of oils for all skin types
Ingredients: sea or table salt, base oil (avocado, apricot, peach, jojoba, grape seed, calendula), essential oil (depending on skin type; for oily and combination - citrus, pine oils, ylang-ylang, bergamot, tea tree, rosemary; for dry and normal - orange, grapefruit, rose oil, lemon), sour cream.
For one to one and a half teaspoons, take five to seven drops of base oil and two to three essential oils. Carefully move and let it brew for three to four minutes, then mix with one tablespoon of sour cream. Apply to wet face and massage for one to two minutes, leave on face for five to seven and rinse with lukewarm water. Apply cream.
From salt and soda for problem skin with comedones and blackheads
Ingredients: sea or table salt, soda, lemon, water.
Mix about 20 g of salt and soda each, add warm water to the state of slurry, if desired, add a couple of drops of lemon juice - so the clarification of black dots will go more actively, as well as cleansing the pores in general. Before use, the face must be steamed over a steam bath, and the scrub is applied with soft massaging movements. Keep for five minutes, then rinse with warm water.
From rock and sea salt for normal, oily or combination skin
Ingredients: rock and sea salt.
Here the salt is used in its pure form without any additional ingredients. On steamed and damp skin, you need to apply a pre-mixed gruel of sea and rock salt (half a teaspoon each) and massage for a couple of minutes. Rinse with warm water, apply cream.
