Beauty Tips for Ministers

Body Scrubs

January 30, 2008 on 12:47 am | In Make-Up And Skin Care, Product & Catalog Reviews |

As long as we’re on the subject of scrubs, do remember that dry brushing your body is a very good and ancient way of ridding the dermis of dead cells. This isn’t just for vanity’s sake — everyone likes a silky smooth bod, of course, but your skin is doing a lot of hard work eliminating toxins from your body, so help it along every now and then. Dry brushes can be found at any health food store. I’ve had mine for years and while dry brushing isn’t exactly pleasant, it does stimulate circulation and can be a good way to boost the immune system. I always give myself a good dry-brushing if I have a cold coming on before climbing into a (not too) hot bath full of therapeutic salts. I drink tons of water and get to bed early, and it seems to help. The thing is, showering every day does not exfoliate the skin; there isn’t time. Even if you scrub with a washcloth, the skin needs to soak for awhile before it’s really ready to discard those dead cells. I read this somewhere and if I’m wrong, please correct me.

For the more luxuriant of you, I must tell you about these two scrumptious products I smelled and tested at the Origins counter Dillards in Florida recently:

First, this matcha tea based oily scrub that comes in a pretty glass container and smells like a soft-scented heaven where they have tea ceremony every day through eternity,

And, more to PeaceBang’s personal olfactory preference, this totally yumby cocoa body scrub that tempted me to lick it off my fingers,

I am waiting hopefully for the day that the ingrates at Origins realize what a huge fan I am and how much free advertising they get from me, and start sending me care packages of all these products every month. Corporate HQ, are you listening?