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Sugar as a natural scrub ingredients will help to make your skin look smoother. You can obtain sugar scrub by mixing different ingredients. This amazing mixtures will remove your dead skin cells and revitalise your skin as well.
Applying scrub once a week is necessary for your skin health. But, we don’t know what is in there in commercial scrub products. These products contain harmful ingredients. Instead of these harmful ingredients, you can make your own homemade sugar scrub for healthier look.
Benefits to Dry Skin
Applying scrub on dry skin can be problematic. Since dry skin is often sensitive, commercial scrub products will increase this sensitivity. Cleansing recipes with natural ingredients like sugar will nourish your skin and remove dead skin cells as well.
Dry skin experience lots of problems. These problems include rash, itchy feeling, flaky skin, and allergies. So, you need to pay extra attention to dry skins. By using nourishing ingredients, it is possible to apply scrub on dry skins. Cleaning your dead skin cell is beneficial for dry skin care.
Benefits of Sugar Scrub
Grainy structure of sugar will help to clean your dead skin cells. This scrub will increase blood circulation. After applying scrub with sugar, your cheeks may look slightly red. This redness shows that blood circulation has increased.
Three different homemade scrub recipe below are effective for oil and mixed skins as well as dry skins. These recipes will also remove the dirt in your pores. With sugar scrub, you skin will look smooth and lively.
Olive Oil Sugar Scrub
Olive oil is one of the natural moisturisers. This amazing oil has been used as a part of skin care since ancient ages. When used together with sugar, your skin will look softer and younger.
Ingredients:
- 4 table spoons of sugar
- 2 table spoons of olive oil
Olive Oil Sugar Scrub Preparation
1
Put sugar in a clean bowl.
2
Add olive oil on sugar and mix two ingredients.
3
Your olive oil sugar scrub is ready.
Apply this scrub to your whole body before bath. Then, rinse it with warm water. Apply your moisturiser and complete your skin care.
Sea Salt and Lavender Sugar Scrub
Scrub effect of sugar can be increased by sea salt. In fact, this recipe has better results on oily skin rather than dry skin. Double cleansing power can be too strong for dry skin. Lavender essential oil in this recipe will sooth your skin. This way, dead skin cells will be removed and your skin looks younger.
Ingredients:
- ½ cup of sea salt
- ½ cup of sugar
- 4 table spoon of coconut oil
- 1 table spoon of dried lavender petal
- 15 drops of lavender essential oil
Sea Salt and Lavender Sugar Scrub Recipe
1
Mix sea salt, sugar, and coconut oil in a bowl.
2
Add dried lavender and lavender essential oil to this mixture.
3
Mix all the ingredients.
4
Your sea salt and lavender sugar scrub is ready.
Apply this scrub to your whole body before shower. Rinse with warm water and moisturise with your normal moisturiser.
Oatmeal and Almond Sugar Scrub
Oatmeal will remove dead skin cells with grainy structure. Honey will eliminate harmful bacteria on your skin with anti-bacterial properties. This way, acne formation will also be prevented. Almond oil will moisturise your skin.
Ingredients:
- 4 table spoons of oat meal
- 1 table spoons of honey
- 1 table spoons of sugar
- 2 table spoons of almond butter
- 1 apple
Oatmeal and Almond Sugar Scrub Preparation
1
Add honey and sugar on oatmeal.
2
Mix all the ingredients.
3
Add almond oil and mix again.
4
At the last stage, add sliced apple and complete your scrub.
Before shower, apply this scrub to your whole body. Wait about 10-15 minutes. Then, rinse with warm water. Apply your moisturiser and complete your skin care.
Before applying any of these scrub recipes, test them on a small area in case you have any allergies. If there is no rash or itchy feeling, you can easily apply your homemade sugar scrub recipe. If there is any rash, stop using the mixture and consult to your doctor. This shows that you have an allergy to one of the ingredients.
But there are few things you need to consider in all DIY scrub recipes. First, you need to store all sugar scrub away from sun. Storing these mixture in the fridge and preparing for single use will be better. This way, your mixture will not spoil.