Body scrub at home

Scrub recipes allow you to make compositions from affordable and skin-friendly ingredients at home. By mixing them and applying a scrub on the body, you can achieve not only the effect of peeling and cleaning, but also tighten the skin, get rid of the beginning cellulite.

For a modern woman and girl, it is important to remain charming and attractive, as nature itself arranges. In creating a beautiful female image, the condition of the skin of the face and the whole body plays an important role. Scrubs for the face and body will help in solving this pleasant task. Scrub is a tool used to exfoliate the stratum corneum, cleanse, nourish the skin, to give it elasticity.

On our skin, the body shows all the unnecessary and negative that has accumulated inside and began to come out in the process of getting rid of toxins and pollution. Therefore, inflammation sometimes occurs on it, rashes appear, it is often impossible to avoid cellulite processes and stretch marks. Scrubs make the skin soft and tender, touching it is a pleasure.

There are many varieties of scrubs from various ingredients, each effective composition is used for a specific purpose. They are called according to the main active action like this:

1. Exfoliating. Salt, liquid soap and any oil with a pleasant smell are used for peeling. A solid scrub contains particles of coffee beans, ground grape and olive seeds. Popular recipes will ensure quick removal of keratinized areas. To eliminate excessive dryness, oat flakes are added to the composition. Ground almonds also provide a perfect cleansing and almond oil is suitable for nourishing all skin types.
2. Moisturizing and rejuvenating for dry and aging skin.
3. Pull-up. Shower gel twice a week combined with salt and rubbed into the body, allows you to get rid of the "lemon peel" and pumpkin pulp, taken in equal proportions with ground cinnamon. This composition is supplemented with one glass of brown sugar, a few drops of vitamin E in an oil solution.
4. Cleaning. Seaweed-based scrubs can significantly soften and cleanse the skin, leaving it smooth. Algae is crushed and soaked for 10-15 minutes in very hot water, then rubbed on the body. The effect exceeds all expectations, and to eliminate a slight fishy smell, you can use lemon or orange extract.
5. Bleaching. Not all women have a uniform complexion and body; freckles and age spots appear on it over time. The best remedy is a scrub based on lemon juice mixed with milk or water, sugar and vodka in equal proportions.For especially sensitive skin, crushed dandelion leaves with homemade cottage cheese are used. Horseradish juice, diluted in half with water, also gives whiteness to the skin.

Regardless of skin type, sweat glands secrete a large amount of a substance during the day that makes the skin sticky. The layering of cosmetics creates a stable layer through which breathing through the pores is difficult. Daily washing partially eliminates this problem, but does not solve it. In addition, it causes overdrying and disrupts the natural balance of metabolism within the skin. All scrubs are made on two bases - oil and water. These are various ethereal emulsions and lotions, inside which particles of denser substances are stirred.

Many movie stars, such as Jennifer Lopez and Eva Longoria, start their day with a cup of black espresso. This coffee helps to improve metabolism, and the remaining thick is convenient to use for making a wonderful body scrub.

For dry skin, most recipes mix grains with honey, olive oil, sandalwood, geranium oil, and other essential oils. A mixture in equal proportions of coffee grounds and a honey-oil mixture is rubbed all over the body, leaving the scrub on it for 15-25 minutes. Then the mixture is washed off, a moisturizer is added. For sensitive skin, it is recommended to use not honey, but grated carrots and applesauce.

There are many varieties of this cosmetic product. The most popular scrubs have been on sale for a long time and can be found on store shelves. You can also make effective compositions at home. The main thing is to take into account all the tips and know the purpose of each individual species.

The product is applied immediately after the end of thermal water procedures, when the skin is moist and warm, the pores are open. Fat from them and the remnants of dead skin scales easily exfoliate, allowing the skin to breathe freely. A thin layer of scrub is lightly rubbed, the body is massaged for one to two minutes, and then washed off with warm water. Together with the substance, the stratum corneum leaves.

You can make effective scrubs with your own hands at home. The best folk recipes allow you to prepare a simple composition yourself at home, from inexpensive ingredients. A good homemade scrub or mask is the perfect gift for your skin. Light and natural, it is perfectly absorbed, and the production does not take much time.

Often, recipes are based on soda, mixtures with salt and other useful substances. In order to figure out which one is right for you, you need to familiarize yourself with some popular and positively proven home scrubs. Almost every modern woman has ingredients for them on the shelves in the kitchen.

• Coconut. It acts very gently and is suitable for both the face and the whole body. To make a scrub, you will need: one tablespoon of pureed coconut pulp, a couple of tablespoons of brown sugar and three tablespoons of sour cream. After mixing all this in an enameled container, you can add a few drops of lemon or orange oil there. The essential oil softens and aromatizes the facial emulsion. After taking a warm shower, the composition is washed off under a warm shower, and then a nourishing or moisturizing cream is applied.

Another video is a coconut body scrub recipe.

• Saline. To make such a scrub, you will need table salt of any type and grinding - large and fine, fine sea salt is recognized as especially useful. Salt is mixed in a 5:1 ratio with olive oil, where one tablespoon of oil goes to five tablespoons of the fine salt component. Oil can be taken almond or rep. Orange peel is cut in the amount of 2 tablespoons, and then three drops of lemon or grapefruit essential extract should be added to the resulting mixture. The finished scrub is rubbed for 10-12 minutes, then washed off with warm water. It is recognized as one of the best exfoliating and moisturizing at the same time among home recipes.

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• Chocolate. Delicious tonic chocolate is also useful for skin, especially dry and fading. Cocoa beans and oils that are part of it nourish the skin, making it silky and velvety. You need to use to make a scrub:

1. orange essential extract in the amount of two drops;
2. zest of one orange fruit;
3. a few tablespoons of grated dark chocolate.

Another video is a chocolate body scrub recipe.

• Oat. The flakes are crushed to a homogeneous mass and mixed with cream. Swelling leads to a significant increase in the nutrient composition, which perfectly cleanses the skin by opening the pores. To quickly prepare such a scrub and carry out a peeling procedure for a bath or sauna is an indispensable way.

Video - a recipe for another composition, an oatmeal body scrub.

• Honey The scrub is made by mixing boiled oatmeal with a spoonful of honey. This mixture is kept on the body for at least thirty minutes in order to achieve special elasticity of the skin of the body and face.

• ginger. Ginger soothes the skin and smoothes the relief. In order to get a scrub, ginger root is crushed and mixed with coffee grounds and sea salt, essential and olive oil are added. This procedure can cause a slight burning sensation at first, therefore, in the bath, the scrub is used before the very last entry into the steam room. Ginger scrub has a pronounced anti-cellulite effect.Applying this composition quite often, up to three times a week, you can achieve a noticeable effect on the skin of the thighs - it will smooth out, and over time, all your skin will be as tender as a child's.

Scrubs are contraindicated in the following conditions of the female body:

1. Pregnancy. Expectant mothers should not take risks, it is better not to expose your body to additional stress. Women's skin during the period of expectation of a child is especially sensitive to exposure, and reactions can be unusual and unexpected, so doctors advise to refrain from cosmetic procedures of any kind, including the use of scrubs.
2. Increased allergic skin tone, reacting to components unacceptable to it. Before using this or that type of this product, you should check its hypoallergenicity and whether it is suitable for your skin type.
3. Just getting a tan in the sun or in a tanning bed. This effect injures the upper layer of the skin, so scrubbing is undesirable - it is better to wait a couple of days until the skin calms down.
4. Scratches, minor cuts and damage.
5. Inflammation and manifestations of varicose veins. This disease requires complex treatment, therefore it is forbidden to injure the skin both over large vessels and over a network of small vessels.

All women who responded, both with combination and dry skin types, note an excellent effect from recipes containing ground coffee and chocolate. Grape seed oil is chosen for the base, grapefruit and lemon essential extract is used as an emulsion, softened with liquid soap. For areas with problem skin, the treatment of small pimples, according to reviews, is well suited salt, especially sea salt.

Essential for body and face cereals, their positive effect on the skin is unanimously noted by those girls and women who have tried to make and apply oat-honey and other scrubs based on flakes and olive oil. Delicate skin is perfectly cleansed with soft fruit scrubs with walnut particles, salt scrubs with heavy cream.