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 Body scrubs are a great way to keep your skin healthy and beautiful through exfoliation. Body scrubs help you remove dead cells and impurities from the skin, eliminate blemishes and get that natural glow back. Your skin can feel soft, smooth and healthy again. Natural products such as tumeric, aloe, honey, kaffir lime, tropical fruits, mud, oils or sea salt are applied, with blends often specially prepared to suit one's skin condition (dry, oily, sunburned, etc.).
An exfoliant is the abrasive material like salt, sugar, rice bran, jojoba beads, apricot kernels, coffee grounds, etc. that rubs away the dead skin cells on the surface, revealing the softer, younger cells just below. Oil holds the mixture together so it can be applied to your skin. Body scrubs might also have skin-nourishing ingredients and chemical exfoliants like alpha-hydroxy acids (AHAs) to dissolve the intra-cellular “glue” that holds cells together.
A body scrub at a Chiang Mai spa is thorough and tends to leave your skin soft and fresh. The therapist works longer and gets into areas you can’t reach easily, like the middle of your back. The therapist might use special equipment like a Vichy shower to rinse you off. A body scrub at the spa is followed by a moisturizing process to replenish any lost moisture during the exfoliating process. |
