Exfoliation 101

Maybe you're wondering if using an exfoliator is really a must-add to your already growing skincare regimen? We know it sounds like another tedious step especially if you consider yourself a lazy beauty person who probably sticks to three easy steps of wash, tone, and moisturize. Don’t fret! Exfoliating your skin is really up to you and what areas you want to focus on but it’s a definite must-do at least once a week if you want to keep your skin always refreshed.

Our skin naturally shreds every 30 days or so, which is why exfoliating away your dead skin cells from the surface of your skin is important to make way for renewed cells. Once you’ve rid yourself of all the impurities, your skin looks smoother, brighter and rejuvenated. If you’re ready to add that little extra step to your daily routine, here are some of our best exfoliator picks to try:

FACE SCRUBS

Up Circle Coffee Face Scrub Floral Blend, Beauty Bar

Lush Ocean Salt Face & Body Scrub

Clinique 7 Day Scrub Cream Rinse-Off Formula

Clinique Clarifying Lotion 3

Up Circle Coffee Face Scrub Floral Blend is formulated for sensitive skin with chamomile, rosehip, geranium and patchouli essential oils. Blended with shea butter to nourish the skin post-scrub, buff away dry, dead cells to leave you feeling soft, smooth and glowy. Reused, repurposed, reloved, this scrub is made with top-quality Arabica coffee grounds sourced from artisan coffee shops. 

Lush’s Ocean Salt Face & Body Scrub is rich in minerals and is excellent for scrubbing and buffing skin. Limes steeped in vodka, grapefruit and lashings of salt go into this invigorating face and body scrub. Also added with silky avocado butter, coconut oil and seaweed absolute to keep your skin soft, smooth and conditioned.

Clinique’s 7 Day Scrub Cream Rinse-Off Formula is a gentle exfoliating cream that polishes and refines the skin’s texture. It gently brushes away roughness and flakiness, clearing the way for moisturizer and smoother makeup application. With a lightweight formula that smooths skin, it also helps to minimize the appearance of fine, dry lines. After cleansing with facial soap, apply Clinique’s Clarifying Lotion 3, a dermatologist-developed liquid exfoliating lotion that clears the way for smoother, brighter skin. It's also a gentle exfoliator that sweeps away dulling flakes and excess oil that can lead to breakouts. 

BODY SCRUBS

Clarins Exfoliating Body Scrub

L’Occitane Almond Shower Scrub and Almond Delicious Paste

Ecococo Coconut and Guava Body Scrub, Beauty Bar

The essential first step to achieving a firm, youthful-looking body, this refreshing, moisturizing, and exfoliating Clarins Exfoliating Body Scrub treatment (with smoothing Natural Bamboo Powders and a hint of ginger) rubs away rough, flaky surface cells and impurities, giving skin a sleek new start. Also, prepares skin for the treatment that follows.

Enriched with almond oil and crushed shells, the foaming L’Occitane Almond Shower Scrub melts into the skin, cleanses softly and exfoliates to remove impurities and dead cells while leaving behind the fresh and delicate fragrance of almond tree flower and making your skin soft, smooth and ready to absorb all the benefits of your body creams. The L’Occitane Almond Delicious Paste is an exfoliating butter that offers perfect exfoliation for the entire body. A blend of almond butter and almond oil, infused with crushed almond shells and sugar crystals, this exfoliating butter offers a gentle, yet effective exfoliation as it luxuriously melts into your skin and effectively treats skin by eliminating dead cells and refining its texture. Your skin is left perfectly smooth and soft, delicately fragranced with the crunchy notes of fresh almond.

The subtle uplifting fragrance of the Ecococo Coconut and Guava Body Scrub will elevate your senses. Made up of a rich combination of Sea Salt and Coconut Oil, this scrub contains a unique blend of Natural and Certified Organic ingredients to detoxify the skin. Guava is a rich source of vitamins A, B, C and potassium which are good antioxidants and detoxifiers. They fight free radicals, thus keeping your skin glowing and free from premature signs of aging like wrinkles and fine lines. 

HAND SCRUBS

Diptyque Exfoliating Hand Wash

Lush Salted Coconut Hand Cream

Trying scrubs for the first time? Test them out first on your hands to see the results in a less sensitive area of your body. 

The cleansing and micro-exfoliating formula of the range The Art of Body Care from Diptyque softens and perfumes the hands. Its fresh texture with microparticles from crushed oliver stones softly exfoliates the skin, leaving it smooth and lightly scented with laurel.

Lush’s Salted Coconut Hand Cream is a creamy coconut and sea salt exfoliator to keep your paws in tiptop condition. Apply a generous dollop to wet hands and scrub all over or use when your hands are dry for a rougher cleanse. Sea salt is a wonderful natural exfoliant, packed full of restorative minerals to cleanse and treat the skin, whilst coconut oil deeply hydrates without making your hands sticky. 

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