Natural Exfoliants For Your Skin

Nature produces new skin cells in inner layer of the skin (dermis). As they develop, the old, dead skin cells are moved to the skin’s outer layer (epidermis). Normally, your skin shed these dead cells after they reach the epidermis – These new skin cells stay part of your skin for about a month before they flake off. But some of the old, dead skin cells hang on for too long and they cause your complexion look dull and rough. They also clog your pores causing skin blemishes and acne break out. When the old, dead skin is gone, the newer skin looks healthier and shinier.

Natural exfoliation helps by removing the top layer of old, dead skin off – not the good, living skin, but the older skin that lies on top. It is a process, in which you apply natural exfoliants to scrub off debris from the top layer of the skin. This process not only removes dead skin cells, but also helps clean pores and improves blood circulation to make your skin look young, blemish-free and radiant.

The good news is that the best exfoliators are all natural and available right in your own kitchen. So, you don’t need to buy any expensive products that may harm your skin. You can find these natural ingredients in your local supermarket, health-food store or even online. You will observe that some of these natural ingredients are the same ones used in some expensive brand-name exfoliants.

Best Natural Exfoliators For Your Face And Skin

  Here are the best homemade natural exfoliant recipes and DIY natural facial scrubs recommended by beauty experts and dermatologists.

1.HONEY:  Honey is not sweet just a healthy and addition to your cup of chamomile, but it’s also a healthy and sweet addition to your skin care routine. Unprocessed, raw honey works as a superb antiseptic, due to its anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal properties, which helps to lessen the occurrence of skin infections, including acne. Packed full of anti-oxidants, honey helps your skin better protect and repair itself by reducing skin inflammation. It boosts the natural exfoliation process. In addition to its excellent exfoliation properties, it has humectant qualities that means it attracts moisture to your skin, making it a great moisturizer.

Natural Beauty Tips:

(i) You can combine honey with any of the natural exfoliators mentioned here to enhance the antioxidant and anti-bacterial benefits.

(ii) You can mix honey with your favorite hydrating facial scrub to make it work as a moisturizer too.

2. SUGAR: Sugary diets may reflect on your face, as it can increase risk of premature aging. But it’s very friendly, when you apply it on your skin – no matter what type of skin you have. Sugar is a natural source of an alpha hydroxyl acid, called glycolic acid. Glycolic acid helps in breaking down protein – a kind of glue – that keeps the dead skin cells hanging onto your skin, as well as boosting new cells development and smoothing and softening of the skin. Sugar grains are small and rough that make them a perfect natural exfoliant to slough of dead skin cells from your face and body.

3. OATMEAL: It’s not only an excellent food for lowering your cholesterol, but it also acts as a natural exfoliator that has anti-inflammatory qualities and works as a natural moisturizer as well. It’s one of the gentlest exfoliants not to tear or injure sensitive skin. Another advantage of oatmeal is that it absorbs oil, so it cleanses your skin as you exfoliate. Oatmeal performs best when whole oats are ground up in blender or food processor, then combined with water or another base and applied to the face with your fingertips.

You can also make your own hydrating honey oatmeal facial at home. Take one cup of ground oatmeal and mix it well with one cup of yogurt or buttermilk and two tablespoons of honey in a small bowl. Stir it thoroughly until it becomes a fine smooth paste. Apply this mixture to your face and scrub it in circular motions. Let it sit there for 15 minutes, and then rinse it off.

4. YOGURT: Yogurt is not only a great staple food in your kitchen, but it’s good for your skin as well. Yogurt contains lactic acid, an alpha hydroxyl acid (an acid that you will find in prescription skin care treatments), but at a concentration so mild that it’s gentle enough to apply on any skin type, face and body.

Yogurt or milk hydrates and exfoliates as well. They have skin-smoothing and soothing properties. In addition, the lactic acid helps out in evening out your skin too. All you have to do is to apply plain yogurt as a natural facial exfoliant or even to other parts of your body, let it remain there for about 20 minutes, and then rinse it off well.

5. BAKING SODA: It’s used for baking purpose and some people even keep a baking soda box in fridge to control odor. It is also present in some tooth pastes and in eco-friendly cleansers. But do you know, you can use it to cleans and exfoliate your skin as well? Many spa treatments use baking soda. In fact, some micro dermabrasion treatments contain sodium bicarbonate. And baking soda is nothing else, but sodium bicarbonate. It’s a simple and least expensive exfoliate, and all you really have to do is make a paste with baking soda and water

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