Salt scrubs

Girls in the pursuit of beauty have long used improvised means, including foodstuffs - fruits, vegetables, cereals, dairy products. They were used in face and hair masks as natural cosmetics, for rinsing. But a special place in the care of the skin of the face has always occupied a scrub. What it is? Scrub is a cream or gel containing solid particles, due to which cleansing takes place.

Of course, now, in the 21st century, we can find a huge amount of scrubs, gels and peels for the face on the shelves of cosmetic stores - eyes run from what to choose. Any girl at home should have a professional scrub - but what if there is an important event on the nose, and the coveted favorite tube is over? That's right, cook the scrub yourself.

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Efficacy and contraindications

The most popular component for the manufacture of home scrubs can rightly be called edible salt. Our grandmothers also noted that she:

It has excellent antiseptic properties;
Perfectly cleanses the skin, exfoliates the horny particles and eliminates small peeling;
Cleans pores, removes black spots and cleans the ducts of the sebaceous glands (which is especially important for oily, combination and problem skin);
Tones and moisturizes, improves elasticity;
With continued use, whitens post acne, age spots and speeds up healing, eliminates shallow wrinkles;
It accelerates blood circulation and nourishes the skin with beneficial micro and macro elements. Not every professional scrub is capable of such an impact.

However, if you still decide to prepare a salt scrub at home, you should remember about contraindications. It:

Sensitive skin;
Intolerance to the components of the scrub - salt and additional;
Large scratches and lesions on the skin;

If you do not suffer from any of the above, then run urgently to the kitchen for salt and begin to create a unique tool for beauty.

Application tips

The procedure of cleansing with a salt scrub is recommended to apply in the evening - as the skin reddens under the influence of salt. By the way, the salt scrub can be used for the body.
Before applying directly to the scrub, it is necessary to clean the skin in any everyday way - with gel or foam, and also to go through a cotton pad with micellar water or milk to remove makeup. For deeper effects, the skin can be steamed over a water bath.
Apply the scrub on moist cleansed skin with massage movements, without touching the area around the eyes and lips.
After the procedure, wash with cool or barely warm water - and ideally mineral or thermal. If you wish, go over the skin with a cube of cosmetic ice - to eliminate irritation and close the pores.
The final touch - applying moisturizer.
This scrub can not be used more often than once a week.

Recipes

The main ingredient, of course, is salt. You can use it in solo, or you can add a couple of the same available ingredients and get an even more effective scrub.

For oily and combination skin

Ingredients: table or sea salt, lemon, yogurt (or any other thick fermented milk product - sour cream, kefir)

In a bowl, pour one teaspoon of salt ground in a coffee grinder, add a spoonful of a half lemon juice. Mix it all up to a slurry. After - two tablespoons of yogurt (sour cream, kefir). Apply the composition to the steamed and moist skin of the face and gently massage with fingertips for two minutes. Rinse after five minutes with cool water, apply cream.If you feel unbearable burning or tingling - wash off immediately.

For dry or normal skin

Ingredients: sea or salt, egg (yolk), fat sour cream (mayonnaise).

On one teaspoon of salt add one yolk and one tablespoon of sour cream (mayonnaise). Ingredients stir a little bit, then apply to cleansed and moist skin. Massage one or two minutes, hold on the face for seven to ten minutes. Rinse with warm water and apply a moisturizer.

Facial scrub made of salt and cosmetic clay for all skin types

Ingredients: finely ground salt, honey, egg (yolk) or sour cream, clay (depending on skin type: for oily - green or white, for dry - pink or red, for normal any).

Mix pre-ground salt (one teaspoon) with the same amount of clay that suits you. Melt the honey in a water bath, add to salt and clay, to the same place - one yolk or one tablespoon of sour cream. Mix gently and apply on cleansed and moist skin of the face, massage for one or two minutes, rinse off after ten. At the end, as always, apply a moisturizer. Reviews of such a scrub mask are striking - the tone is evened out, the skin becomes elastic and elastic, the pores are cleaned. In addition to cleansing, it promotes tightening and smoothing.

For the face of salt with the addition of oils for any skin type

Ingredients: sea or salt, base oil (avocado, apricot, peach, jojoba, grape seed, calendula), essential oil (depending on skin type; for oily and combination - citrus, coniferous oils, ylang-ylang, bergamot, tea tree, rosemary; for dry and normal - orange, grapefruit, rose oil, lemon), sour cream.

For one and a half teaspoon, take five to seven drops of base oil and two to three essential. Carefully move and let stand for three or four minutes, then mix with one tablespoon of sour cream. Apply to wet skin and massage for one to two minutes, leave on face for five to seven and rinse with lukewarm water. Apply the cream.

Salt and soda for problem skin with comedones and black dots

Ingredients: sea or cooked ground salt, soda, lemon, water.

Mix about 20 g each of salt and soda, add warm water to a slurry state, add a few drops of lemon juice if desired, so the clarification of the black spots will be more active, as well as cleaning the pores as a whole. Before use, the face must be steamed over a steam bath, and the scrub is applied with soft massaging movements. Hold for five minutes, then rinse with warm water.

From rock and sea salt for normal, oily or combination skin

Ingredients: stone and sea salt.

Here, salt is used in pure form without any additional ingredients. On the steamed and wet skin, apply a pre-mixed gruel made of sea and rock salt (half a teaspoon each) and massage for a couple of minutes. Rinse with warm water, apply cream.