Body scrub at home

Scrub recipes allow you to make compositions of ingredients available and useful for the skin at home. Mixing them and applying scrub on the body, you can achieve not only the effect of peeling and cleaning, but also tighten the skin, get rid of incipient cellulite.

For a modern woman and a girl, it is important to remain charming and attractive, as arranged by nature itself. The condition of the skin of the face and the whole body plays an important role in creating a beautiful female image. Facial and body scrubs will help in this pleasant task. Scrub is a tool used for exfoliating the stratum corneum, cleaning, nourishing the skin, to give it elasticity.

On our skin, the body manifests all the unnecessary and negative that has accumulated inside and began to emerge in the process of getting rid of toxins and pollution. Therefore, inflammations sometimes appear on it, rashes appear, and cellulite processes and stretch marks often cannot be avoided. Scrubs make the skin soft and delicate, touching it is a pleasure.

There are many types of scrubs from different ingredients, each effective composition is used with a specific purpose. Call them on the main active action:

1. Exfoliating. Salt, liquid soap and any oil with a pleasant smell are used for peeling. A hard scrub contains particles of coffee beans, ground grape seeds and olives. Popular recipes will ensure quick removal of horny areas. To eliminate excessive dryness, oat flakes are added to the composition. The crushed almond nuts also provide an ideal cleansing, and almond oil is suitable for nourishing all skin types.
2. Moisturizing and anti-aging for dry and fading 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 cup 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, making it smooth. Algae are 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 small fishy smell, you can use lemon or orange extract.
5. Bleaching. Not all women have uniform complexion and body, freckles and pigmented spots appear over time. The best remedy is scrub based on lemon juice mixed with milk or water, sugar and vodka in equal proportions. For particularly sensitive skin, ground dandelion leaves with cottage cheese are used. Horseradish juice, diluted in half with water, also gives the skin whiteness.

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

Many movie stars, such as Jennifer Lopez and Eva Longoria, begin their day with a cup of black espresso. This coffee helps to improve metabolism, and the rest of the thick is convenient to use for the preparation of an excellent body scrub.

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

There are many varieties of this cosmetic. The most popular scrubs are sold for a long time, and they can be found on store shelves. It is possible to make effective affecting compositions at home. The main thing is to take into account all the tips and know the purpose of each individual species.

Apply the product immediately after the completion of thermal water procedures, when the skin is wet and heated, the pores are opened. The fat from them and the remains of dead skin flakes 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 leaves the cornified layer.

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

Often, recipes are based on soda, a mixture 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 recommended home scrubs. Almost every modern woman has the 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. For the manufacture of scrub you need: one tablespoon of mashed coconut pulp, a couple of tablespoons of brown sugar and three spoons of sour cream. Mixing all this in an enamel container, you can add a few drops of lemon or orange oil. Essential oil will soften and aromatize the emulsion for the face. 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 recipe for coconut body scrub.

• Saline. For the manufacture of such a scrub, you need any type of salt and grinding - coarse and fine, especially fine sea salt is recognized as useful. Salt is mixed in a ratio of 5: 1 with olive oil, where one tablespoon of oil is used for five tablespoons of the small salt component. Oil can be taken almond or rep. Orange peel is cut in the amount of 2 tablespoons, and then in the resulting mixture you need to add three drops of essential lemon extract or grapefruit. The finished scrub is rubbed for 10-12 minutes, then rinsed with warm water. He is recognized as one of the best exfoliating and at the same time moisturizing among homemade recipes.

Another video is a recipe for salt body scrub.

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

1. orange ether 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 until smooth and mixed with cream. Swelling leads to a significant increase in the nutritional composition, which perfectly cleanses the skin, opening the pores. Quickly prepare such a scrub and carry out the peeling procedure for a bath or sauna - an indispensable way.

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

• Honey scrub is made by mixing brewed oatmeal with a spoon of honey. This mixture is kept on the body for at least thirty minutes in order to achieve a 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, add essential and olive oil. This procedure may cause a slight burning sensation at first, therefore in the bath the scrub is applied just before the 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 of your skin will be as tender as that of a child.

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

1. Pregnancy. Expectant mothers are not worth the risk, it is better not to expose your body to additional loads. Women's skin during the waiting period of the child is especially sensitive to the effects, and reactions may be unusual and unexpected, so doctors advise you to refrain from cosmetic procedures of any kind, including the use of scrubs.
2. Increased allergic skin tone that reacts to unacceptable components. Before applying this or that type of this product, you should check its hypoallergenicity and whether it is suitable for your skin type.
3. Just getting on 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 for the skin to calm 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 over large vessels or over the mesh of small blood vessels.

All responding women, both with combined and dry skin types, have an excellent effect on recipes containing ground coffee and chocolate. For the base choose grape seed oil, as an emulsion - ethereal grapefruit and lemon extract, soften with liquid soap. For areas with problem skin, treatment of small acne, according to reviews, is well suited salt, especially sea.

Indispensable 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 on the basis of flakes and olive oil. Gentle skin cleans beautifully with soft fruit scrubs with walnut particles, salt scrubs with heavy cream.