Scrub Your Way to Delicious Skin
Picture this: your cheeks are rosy and your eyes are bright, but the dry skin on your body is bringing you down. Sound familiar? Dry skin is a year-round pain in the neck, but gets worse around winter. You can moisturize until you're blue in the face, but no amount of lotion is going to help you unless you first slough off the dead skin and dry flakes. Scrub-a-dub-dubbing with a body scrub is the best way to do this, but not all scrubs are created equal. Here are my top 3 choices.
Normal Skin
So maybe your legs and arms are still soft and smooth, but you definitely want to avoid flaky skin by exfoliating now and again. Try The Body Shop's Cocoa Butter Body Scrub - a chocolate-scented scrub with ground rice and almond shell powder. It leaves your skin soft without leaving excess oils behind, and contains Fair Trade organic soy oil and cocoa butter, so you're doing good for the world as well.
For Dry Skin
LaLicious' Sugar Souffle is God's solution to dry skin. Their body scrubs are all-natural and contain super yummy ingredients like cane sugar, coconut oil, honey, and vitamin E. The sugar massages and exfoliates, simultaneously smoothing skin and increasing circulation. Honey, a natural humectant, aids in conditioning and repairing any nicks or scrapes from shaving. Available in 8 different scents, I used the Peppermint one, which leaves skin feeling tingly and fresh right out of the shower. As an added bonus, my skin was perfectly moisturized when I left the shower - no need for lotions or creams. Loves it.
For Extremely Dry Skin
B. Kamins, Chemist's Maple Sugar Body Scrub is formulated with pure vegetable oils, their patented Bio-Maple Sugar complex, and alpha hydroxy acids. It improves circulation, helps brighten skin, and definitely gets rid of the dullness and dryness associated with cold weather. Plus, it comes in a squeeze-tube so there's no messy application. A little goes a long way, and most will find they don't need to apply lotion afterwards. For those that might, follow up with BKC's Maple Body Lotion, a therapeutic lotion containing honey, soy, and of course, the Bio-Maple compound.
how many times a week should you exfoliate your bod?