Homemade facial scrubs

Do you feel your skin is dull and scaly whenever you look at yourself in the mirror?  Try these homemade facial scrubs for an instant skin rejuvenation. Here, I have listed down some very quick, easy and ready to use facial scrub recipes that you can make at home:

1) Salt scrub

Ingredients: Salt, baby oil, Vitamin E, fragrance (if you want it).

Method:

Take a bottle with a lid. Fill more than half of the bottle with salt. Add baby oil into it. Stir it with a spoon so that the oil seeps to the bottom of the bottle. Add a small amount of vitamin E and fragrance. And stir it all together. There you are with your ready to use scrub.

2) Oatmeal face scrub

Ingredients:
Brown sugar, grinded oatmeal, honey, baking soda, fresh juice extract of seedless white grape, virgin olive oil, tea tree oil.

Method:

Mix the brown sugar, grinded oatmeal and a small amount of baking soda properly. And then honey in it. Pour in the olive oil and the tea tree oil to make it well mixed paste. Bottle it in a jar.

3) Brown Sugar face scrub

Ingredients: brown sugar, olive oil.

Method:

Grind the brown sugar into a fine powder and add the olive oil to make a fine paste out of it. Put it in a jar. There you are with your face scrub is ready to use.

4) Coffee scrub

Ingredients: coffee, sea salt (good for acne), and some water.

Method:

Boil the water first. Take a bowl put two teaspoon of coffee into it. Add some of the sea salt into it. Mix it properly and pour in some hot water to make it a thick coffee. Let it cool and your scrub is ready.

5) Cornmeal scrub

Ingredients: ½ cup of yoghurt, ½ cup of cornmeal, lavender, vitamin E, fragrance.

Method:

Take a bowl and add 1’2 cup of cornmeal into ½ cup of yoghurt. Mix it properly. And then add 5 drops of lavender, a small amount of vitamin E and fragrance. Mix it properly. And then refrigerate it for a couple of hours so that the texture may thicken up. And then use it.

6) Avocado scrub

Ingredients: avocado, sea salt, virgin coconut oil, olive oil, honey.

Method:

Take 1 avocado and mash it properly. Add 1 full teaspoon of virgin coconut oil and olive oil. 4 cups of sea salt and a tablespoon of honey.

7) Sugar scrub

Ingredients: raw sugar, baby oil, vitamin E, fragrance (for fragrance you can use your perfume, cologne, lemon oil etc)

Method:

Take a bottle which has a lid. Fill more than half of the bottle with sugar. Add baby oil into it. Wait for sometime to let the oil seep to the bottom of the bottle. Add a small amount of vitamin E and fragrance. And stir it all together. Store it in a sealed glass jar.

8) Gentle face scrub

Ingredients: almonds, oatmeal, milk, rose petal.

Method:

Mix 3 tbsp ground almonds, 3 tbsp medium oatmeal, 3 tbsp powdered milk and 2 tbsp powdered rose petals along with almond oil and combine thoroughly. Now store the mixture in a sealed glass jar and used when required.

Things to be kept in mind:

1) Use the face scrub once a week.

2) Before scrubbing, wet the area you want to scrub with water.

3) Scrub for 3-4 minutes at the most.

4) Do not press too hard on your skin while scrubbing. Go easy on your skin.

After scrubbing, use your everyday face lotion if any.

With these easy and chemical-free face scrubs, your skin will get rid of all the dead cells, and will leave your skin feeling softer and glowing!!!