Exfoliating the face is one of the safest and best remedies to project your innate healthy and young-looking skin that is strong from within and also externally.
Through mild exfoliation, you are able to get rid of the dirt plaguing the dead cells on your face that leads to wrinkles, dark spots and other blemishes.
Causes of skin clogging
The pores of a skin get clogged owing to the constant and scary levels of impurities all around us, especially in the atmosphere.
This in turn leads to the emergence of dead skin cells. When your skin becomes dry, it needs an augmented scale of breathing to be able to produce new and renewed skin cells.
Any process that helps your skin to breathe better and prevent clogging is what one needs, and that is where the beneficial essence of exfoliation comes into play.
Easy exfoliate at home
Scrubs are an easy and smooth manner in which your skin gets nourished by a structured outpouring of essential oils as well as other key skin-enhancing ingredients.
Home-made facial scrubs are not only easy to prepare as well as use, they also present a relatively inexpensive alternative to lend that elusive effulgence to your skin.
In order to prepare the scrubs, you would do well to select the ingredients based on your skin type.
The advantages of these scrubs comes from the fact that they entail practically no side effects, feel good and sell great too while providing your skin with plenty of nourishment and a sparkling glow.
Why is exfoliation needed?
Exfoliation is required for
- Cleansing the skin in totality and removing the dirt and other harmful things from your pores that can cause blackheads and whiteheads.
- To smoothen your skin’s texture and provide it with a soft, glowing look that looks healthy
- To augment the flow of blood to your face and make your face appear youthful and glowing, clean and smooth skin.
How often is it needed?
Under normal conditions, it is typically normal to exfoliate your face twice a week or so.
However, if you have a delicate skin that needs added protection, exfoliating twice weekly can cause a fair bit of irritation to your already sensitive skin.
On the other hand, if you are blessed with an oily skin or happen to reside in a tropical climate, you could actually consider exfoliating your face 3-4 times a week to negate the accumulation of dead skin cells.
How to exfoliate face naturally at home
While there are tons of store-based exfoliating products for your skin, a lot of them end up containing microbeads, which are bad for your skin due to their roughness but also extremely dangerous for the environment.
The plastic beads contained in such products do not get filtered out properly and inevitably get recycled back into your water supply system, which in turn causes problems for marine life..
Thankfully, the best forms of exfoliators are all-natural, which means that you no longer are forced to purchase expensive and harmful products for your skin.
It is entirely possible to get your ski refreshed using ingredients that you use almost everyday.
- Remove your make-up and wash the face with a regular cleanser so as to allow the exfoliation treatment to penetrate your skin.
- Now, steam your face or wet a clean wash cloth using hot water and cover your face for 1-2 minutes. This would open up your facial pores and make it more amenable to the treatment of skin exfoliation.
- One can experiment with either physical or chemical exfoliation using an over-the-counter scrub, or prepare your own. For instance, put three tablespoons of white sugar into a bowl and add a tablespoon of water. Mix the water and sugar using your finger until it becomes a thick paste.
- Using your finger, place the paste on a clean soft wash cloth and slowly scrub the paste in upward and circular motions across the face to remove dead skin. Repeat this process till the entire face has been covered using exfoliation.
Homemade Exfoliator for Face
Homemade face exfoliator ingredients usually include:
- Oatmeal
- Sugar
- Salt
- Almonds
- Baking Soda
For instance, thinking of almonds as exfoliator sounds gross. But by grinding them finely, you can make a great scrubbing agent out of them.
Almond powder represents a chemical-free means of exfoliating your skin, when added to some amount of water.
Sea salt is another great homemade skin exfoliator. Its granules are large and cannot be dissolved easily, which makes it efficient to be used on rougher aspects of the body like feet and elbows.
Another good thing about sea salt is the absence of stickiness. All you need to do is to mix with some oil and put it across your skin.
How to make natural exfoliator using Baking Soda
Baking soda is an incredibly using ingredient that is used for cleaning stains, yellow teeth and showers/sinks.
But did you know that it has one more interesting facet to it?
Yes, just when you thought that the uses of baking soda have come to a halt, here is another piece of surprise for you.
The grains that are found in baking soda are perfect to be able to perform the role of a gentle face exfoliant.
Here is how you are going to make use of Baking soda to make a natural exfoliator.
Ingredients:
The ingredients to be used apart from baking soda while preparing a natural face exfoliator include:
- Facial cleanser
- Water
How to use:
- Mix some amount of baking soda to your facial cleanser and rub it to transform it into an exfoliating cleanser
- Else, you can also prepare a paste of only water and baking soda
- Now apply it slowly and gently on to your skin in a circular motion. After you leave it as is for about 5 to 10 minutes, rinse it off using lukewarm or warm water thoroughly.
