Facial and body scrub treatments, or polishes, provide a means of exfoliation for your skin. Exfoliation is an abrasive process that rids the body of old skin and enables new, fresher skin to rise to the surface. As an infant, your skin regenerates itself frequently. Since the process slows down as you reach adulthood, facial and body scrubs help to rejuvenate your skin regularly, notes Your Plastic Surgery Guide.
Spa Body Scrubs
You'll find a well-rounded menu of body scrub treatments at upscale spas. For example, the Canyon Spa in Palm Springs, California offers a pomegranate-cranberry body polish, as well as an orange-vanilla polishing treatment. Other spas offer coffee scrubs, chocolate scrubs or fragrant fruit scrubs. Scrubs and body polish sessions are generally concluded with a moisturizing treatment designed to soothe your skin.
Home Body Scrubs
Pamper yourself with a salt or sugar scrub made with your own ingredients and choice of fragrant essential oils. For a rich salt scrub, combine a base formula of Kosher or pickling salt, a light carrier oil such as avocado oil, powdered cocoa or freeze-dried coffee and vanilla extract. Add honey for extra smoothness. Sugar scrubs use light brown or raw sugar, your choice of essential oil scents, and a carrier oil such as apricot oil. Stir in honey for a smoother consistency. Both scrubs are designed for bath or shower use, notes Free Beauty Tips.
Body Scrub Benefits
Body scrubs and polishes thoroughly exfoliate your skin and help to improve circulation to its surface. You'll notice that the scrub's oily base ingredients moisturize and lightly scent your skin. Finally, body scrub treatments invigorate your body and open your pores for treatments such as wraps and mud masks, notes The Good Spa Guide.
Facial Scrubs
Dermatologist Jeffrey Benabio, MD notes that some facial scrubs use physically abrasive substances such as salt or sand. Tiny beads are used for microdermabrasion treatments. Chemical facial scrubs use acids such as glycolic or citric acid to chemically eliminate the dead skin cells. Dr. Benabio recommends that you apply a facial scrub every two weeks, to allow your skin to regenerate itself between treatments.
Warning
If you are considering a facial or body scrub treatment, and have an existing dermatological condition, obtain your physician's approval before applying the scrub. For example, the American Academy of Dermatology recommends that rosacea patients avoid facials unless the treatments are given by an aesthetician familiar with this skin disease. Facial peels can only be performed by a dermatologist.
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