"Body Scrub Benefits"

 

            Is this strange warm and cool weather of Autumn leaving your skin just as confused as your closet? Don't even sweat it, after I chatted with Natalie, one of Calista Grand's amazing Massage Therapists, I got the lowdown on how to keep your skin healthy during this inconsistent season.

            The answer is simple- exfoliation! When you exfoliate, it removes the dry, dead skin cells so that there is better penetration for your face and body products; this allows the products to be absorbed instead of laying on the surface. Not only used for your beauty purposes, it's very important for the health of your skin to exfoliate so that your body regenerates new cell growth...which in turn minimizes wrinkles (oh yes, I went there because nobody wants wrinkles right?). The massage therapists and estheticians offer body scrub recipes like the Sea Salt Scrub and the Orange Vanilla Scrub, which is finished with a firming moisturizer. These services are essential for improving your body's circulation of blood and lymph to the surface of your skin. Not only does this extra circulation help minimize and fight cellulite, it works double time by improving your skin tone leaving it bright, soft and smooth.

            Natalie recommended that using a scrub only once or twice a week is enough to reap some serious benefits. Any more and you could damage the young skin layer under the previously sloughed dead cells. She also stresses that when your skin is extra dry, be cautious so that you don't over scrub. 

            All of this talk of bright clear skin is making me crave the Orange Vanilla Scrub- a perfect pair to this beautiful early October.

-Chrisi Marie Lydon

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