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Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:46 am  |
I used to dry brush the skin on my body pretty regularly, but never diligently, nor every day.
For the past few weeks I've been dry brushing methodically every day before my daily shower or bath.
Today, I noticed that the scaley skin on my legs that makes the tops of my calves look 'shiny' is gone! And then I started to feel my skin all over, and it is amazingly soft and resilient. I'm never giving up on this now, because it feels SSSSOOOOO good, makes my skin soft, reputedly improves circulation and prevents cellulite, and exfoliates the dead skin on a regular basis.
For novice dry brushers, here's the deal:
1. only dry brush before, and never after, your bath or shower.
2. You MUST start at the extremities of the body (either feet or hands) and work inward in firm, long strokes. Something about blood flow to the heart...
3. Itr feels especially euphoric when you cross a 'joint' like the ankle and the knee. Totally invigorating, I like to concentrate on these areas, if using a little less pressure. I use most pressure on those areas I want exfoliated.
4. Then you proceed with shower or bath, and follow with a nice full body massage with botanical oils. You could use moisturizer, but they tend to leave a coating on the skin, which will eventually compromise your brush. I am really loving logona's apricot sage mediterranean body oil.
--try it for a week, it's wonderful! Supplemented with diderot's lymphatic drain sea salt juniper bath (in the diy recipe section), your body skin will be radiant, silky, and it will just feel invigorated. it ups the fun factor if you can get huge 1/2 lb bags of sel de guerande for 2 euros like i can (i'm in paris), but if not, i am sure any old sea salts work fine. yay!
--avalange |
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