Scrub soap
Exfoliating dead skin particles is one of the cosmetic procedures that helps women prolong their youth and avoid premature aging of the skin. To do this, use various tools that contain abrasive particles, including scrub soap.
Features
This cosmetic product has a number of useful properties:
- It removes dead cells, deeply cleanses the skin of the face and body, contributes to the renewal of the epidermis;
- With its regular use due to the massage effect microcirculation of blood in the superficial vessels improves;
- It helps to smooth micromorshin, remove excess fluid and toxins, improve skin color.
Basis and additional elements
The composition of any scrub soap includes, firstly, the ingredients that provide its main effect - peeling; secondly, the caring components that provide hydration, nutrition, skin toning; thirdly, additional components - aromatic additives.
Exfoliation
To ensure the effect of peeling, charcoal, sea salt, ground coffee, loofah, poppy are added to the soap.
So, black soap scrub based on charcoal effectively, but very delicately cleanses the skin from any impurities. Charcoal well absorbs dirt, including residues of cosmetics and sebum, has a detoxifying effect.
Salt soap is an excellent care product for face and body. Salt polishes the skin well, giving it a healthy look. This scrub soap is also suitable for solving problems with cellulite.
In addition to charcoal, coffee, sea salt, fruit acids may be present in the soap, which help to weaken the bonds between dead skin particles of the epidermis, thereby improving exfoliation and accelerating the skin regeneration process.
A soap scrub can also be prepared on herbs, for example, it can include: red ginseng, chestnut, cereal extracts, which also have a scrubbing effect. Very useful for the face and body and ginger soap, which not only polishes well, moisturizes and nourishes the skin, but also enriches it with vitamins.
Care
Various oils and plant-based extracts that soften, tone, cleanse and nourish the skin, have antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-aging effects (almond oil, cocoa butter, sesame oil, grape seed oil, calendula extract , shea butter, green tea extract).
Honey and seaweed extracts are also added to the soap scrub. Honey soap is rich in vitamins, essential oils, organic acids, enzymes and trace elements. This tool eliminates pore pollution, relieves inflammation, improves the structure of dry skin, increases blood circulation and rejuvenates the skin. Scrub soap, enriched with extracts of fucus and kelp, containing a huge amount of minerals and vitamins, has a pronounced tonic and rejuvenating effects.
Flavoring
Usually scrub for a pleasant aroma enrich with all sorts of essential oils. Their choice is very rich and depends only on the preferences of soap maker. This is rose oil, and rosemary, and orange, and grapefruit.
Cooking recipes
Scrub soap is quite possible to prepare yourself. For a creative person, this process presents no difficulty. To do this, it is enough to stock up with baby soap and decide what to use as an exfoliating component, and adding other ingredients depends only on the latitude of the flight of fancy.
To do this, the following ingredients should be on hand:
- children's soap without aromatic additives;
- any vegetable based oil (olive, sunflower, peach, etc.);
- peeling filler, which can be used: sea salt, ground coffee, oatmeal, corn grits, almond chips, shredded rose petals, chamomile, jasmine, ground ginger, calcium chloride, poppy, etc .;
- essential oil: mint, rosemary, bergamot, patchouli, etc.
If desired, you can make soap with the addition of cocoa, milk, honey, blue clay, cream, sour cream.
The process of making a scrub is as follows: first, melt baby soap in a water bath, and then gradually introduce all the necessary ingredients into it. The resulting thick mass is poured into molds and left to harden. After 12 hours, the pieces are removed from the molds and laid out for aging in a ventilated room.
How to use
This cosmetic is used 2 times a week or more often depending on the type of skin. To do this, its neat massage movements applied to the skin, and then washed with warm water.
Popular manufacturers
Currently, you can find soap scrub from such manufacturers as Mylovarov, Dove, Spivak, Viteks (Black Clean Coal Line), LemonGrass, EcoLab, The Camel Soap Factory. Korean scrub-soap (Mukunghwa, DongBang) has become widespread.
Reviews
Most women who use scrub-soap, note that it copes with its functions - cleansing and peeling. Skin after its application becomes soft and silky. Negative reviews are also found, but they are more associated with improper selection of cosmetic products by skin type.