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Thu May 13, 2004 1:13 pm  |
Hello,
I am new to the forum in hope to better benefit my knowledge on skin care. Currently I've been searching online for ways to exfoliate. I've seen suggestions regarding various products, but just recently have came across a more natural and convenient method.
Taken as a suggestion from a friend and also seen online in some articles, this method involves using table salt and water. Another similar choice is to put salt in a jar with natural oils. This way the salt settles in the oil and when rubbed on the face acts as a removal agent for dead skin and oil, while the naturual oil will serve as a moisturizer (keeping the face smooth and fresh).
However useful this method, some articles suggest that this be done with dried sea salt and a combination of natural oils.
Table salt and water?
I am still quite worried about this being a weekly based task and have came to the following questions:
Is this a good alternative to exfoliating? Does anyone know off experience if this is efficient? Is there anything else that I should know of? How many times a week should this method of treatment be applied?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Kind regards. |
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elsa
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Joined: 12 May 2004
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Thu May 13, 2004 2:01 pm |
| Hi I am new in this forum also. I read one topic in the magazine instead of salt they use sugar and olive oil. I think it it much better than seasalt because seasalt is to rough and it might damage your skin. |
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Thu May 13, 2004 2:16 pm |
About the sugar, I've seen that somewhere aswell. Elsa have you tried it?
Seeing that you are the first one to reply on this topic, what exfoliating techniques do you do? If you dont mind. |
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Mabsy
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Joined: 17 Aug 2003
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Thu May 13, 2004 8:27 pm |
Krz and Elsa - Welcome to the forum! 
Both salt and sugar are used in scrubs, however I definitely agree with Elsa in that seasalt is too rough. I actually made my own salt scrub (cooking salt + essential oils) and I can tell you that I would NEVER use that on my face. I have to be very gentle with it on my body too otherwise you can scratch yourself. Cooking salt is actually less coarse than the sea salt (at least than the one I was planning on buying for this experiment).
For my face I tend to alternate between Dermalogica Microfoliant, PTR Buffing Beads and Phytomer Gommage Exfoliant. If I were to make my own face scrub then I guess I'd be going with sugar because it seems like it would be more gentle. And I would use essential oils instead of water. Do a search (upper right hand corner) for "sugar scrub". I'm sure we've discussed the Origins sugar and salt scrubs before....
Mabsy |
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