A homemade scrub could be a thoughtful, moisturizing gift. (Photo: matka_Wariatka/Shutterstock)
Both salt and sugar scrubs are made to exfoliate your skin. Massaging them into moist skin removes layers of dirt and the dead skin cells and encourages skin to reduce in a faster rate, typically every thirty days. Exfoliation also results in healthy, glowing, softer skin.
While sugar scrubs comprise small granules and therefore are more appropriate to exfoliate sensitive areas such as the face, or lightly exfoliating skin with eczema or acne, salt scrubs tend to be more abrasive with bigger granules appropriate for harsher scrubbing of callused skin like this from the ft, or being an total body scrub to inspire skin shedding. What’s more, salt contains minerals like magnesium, potassium and calcium, ideal for skin cell restoration and reducing signs of aging.
You can purchase salt scrubs at different cost points from affordable to pricey, or test out making homemade variations with simple kitchen ingredients. Kept in pretty glass jars, salt scrubs are actually excellent gifts, last six several weeks, and may vary in scents and healing qualities.
Listed here are a couple of homemade salt scrubs to test:
Relaxing Lavender Salt Scrub
- Pink Himalayan ocean salt, or any other ocean salt varietal (1 cup)
- Nutritive oil like almond, grapeseed, avocado or rosehip oil ( cup)
- Lavender acrylic (relaxing) or peppermint (energizing), or orange (stimulating), or geranium (mood lifting) 5-10 drops
- Optional: Add in crushed petals and leaves or leaves of lavender, peppermint, citrus or geranium for color
Mix all ingredients in clean dry bowl and store in glass jar. Rub into moist skin or spread on loofah and employ as throughout body scrub weekly.
Oatmeal Patchouli Ocean Salt Scrub
- Ocean salt (2 cups)
- Oatmeal, ground and uncooked (1/2 cup)
- Grapeseed oil (1/2 cup)
- Essential olive oil (1/2 cup)
- Patchouli acrylic (5-10 drops)
Put salt inside a clean, dry bowl, add oils and blend having a spoon. Add drops of patchouli and blend well. Store in glass jar and employ like a soothing, relaxing all-over body exfoliant.
Peppermint Feet Scrub
- Epsom salt (1 cup)
- Ocean salt (1 cup)
- Sodium Bicarbonate (1 cup)
- Peppermint oil (15-20 drops)
- Tea tree oil (1 teaspoon) optional for antibacterial purposes
Pour all ingredients into glass jar and shake to combine. Use weekly to wash ft and soothe rough heels.
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