Makeup Discounters – The Bath and Body Store

If you'd like to feel like you've spent a day at the spa, but you don't want to spend that kind of money, why not give yourself a body scrub before soaking in a warm tub. This all over skin treatment is just the trick for feeling and smelling like a million dollars.

All body scrubs are designed to exfoliate, that is to remove dead skin cells. This gives your skin a healthy glow as well as smoothing and refining the skin. All body scrubs consist of some sort of abrasive in some sort of base. The abrasives used are usually salt, or sugar or oatmeal. Binders are usually oil or glycerin and they each have their place, but I believe the best scrubs over-all use shea nut butter as their base. Shea butter is known for its healing properties and is easily absorbed by the skin, providing a soothing moisture barrier without the greasy feeling of oil-based scrubs. Shea nut butter has also been shown to minimize the appearance of strecth marks and scars when used on them regularly.

Shea butter is a world-class moisturizer but when it is used a scrub base and abrasives are added for their exfoliating properties it becomes something special, elevating skin care to a  luxurious experience. If you go to a spa for a salt scrub, you could easily pay $100 or more, but you can easily get the same results at home for a fraction of the price.

Shea butter is made from the pits in the fruit of the shea tree, which grows only in Africa. Shea butter is known especially for its cosmetic properties as a moisturizer and emollient. It is also a known anti-inflammatory agent. This unusual vegetable fat is solid at room temperature yet mixes easily with other moisturizing oils as well as the essential oils used in fragrance. By adding salt, or sugar, or even coffee grains, shea butter becomes a woncerful scrub.

Because of its unique properties, other beneficial oils are often added to a base of shea butter. Oils like green tea oil, almond oil, jojoba, avocado oil, and fragrant essential oils cab be mixed with shea butter to make for a truly luxurous experience. Just make sure to read the list of ingredients and verify that shea butter is the first ingredient and makes up the majority of the scrub.

Before I begin a body scrub, I like to plan ahead a little and make it a real treat. Send the kids and the husband off to play, turn off your phone and lock the bathroom door so you won't be disturbed.

Start with problem areas like knees, elbows, and feet and then move on to the rest of your body. Use your hands to spread and massage in a circular motion, being generous with the shea butter, exfoliating and moisturizing as you go.

You will need to be especially gentle on your face but you shouldn't be afraid of scrubbing there too. You can even use shea butter (without the abrasive) in your hair as shea butter is a wonderful conditioner for hair and scalp.

After you have scrubbed and massaged all over, fill your tub with hot water and slowly immerse yourself. The water will work to dissolve the salt or sugar in the scrub and the shea butter will begin to melt into your skin. Soaking in this wonderfully moisturizing tub will not only condition your skin, it is guaranteed to melt your stress away.

When you are done soaking, rinse your body well and gently towel yourself dry. Complete your spa treatment by moisturizing all over with regular shea butter to protect your new, shiny layer of skin from the harmful effects of sun and wind.

Give yourself a shea butter body scrub every week and your will never again suffer from rough, scaly patches on your elbows, knees, or feet and your skin will glow with good health.