Body Exfoliants
What does exfoliating do? Simply put, exfoliating helps to keep your skin silky soft and smooth by buffing away and removing dead skin cells. Your skin naturally sheds dead skin cells every 30 days or so. When this happens, new skin cells form the top layers of your skin.
HOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU EXFOLIATE YOUR SKIN?
It is recommended to exfoliate your skin twice a week, as part of your weekly skincare routine. Exfo
We recommend exfoliating your skin twice a week as part of your weekly skincare routine. Exfoliation is all about balance – whilst it’s important to buff away dead skin cells you also want to take care not to strip away too many of your skin’s natural oils.
By maintaining a twice-weekly exfoliating regime, you can keep dry, dull skin at bay without stripping away those necessary natural oils.
HOW TO EXFOLIATE YOUR SKIN
When exfoliating, it’s important to be gentle on your skin. Being too harsh can be drying and could lead to microtears Exfoliating scrubs and creams are best used on damp skin so lather up and exfoliate your skin during your morning shower or night-time bath.
Whether you’re using an exfoliating scrub or an exfoliating body puff or brush, make small, circular motions over the area you want to exfoliate. Exfoliate each area for 20-30 seconds then rinse off with warm water. After exfoliating, apply a nourishing body moisturiser to help keep your skin glowing.
We advise exfoliating twice a week to make sure you remove dry, dull skin without disrupting your skins production of natural oils.
Avoid exfoliating if you have any cuts, open wounds or sunburn on your skin, to not further irritate your skin.
THE BEST BODY EXFOLIANTS:
GOOD BODY SKIN AHA + ENZYME EXFOLIATING BODY WASH
This faintly beach-scented body wash cleanses, exfoliates, and moisturizes for smooth, soft skin. Made with glycolic and lactic acids as well as fruit enzymes to gently smooth and brighten, the foamy gel works for even the most sensitive skin. There’s also mandelic acid in the formula to help breakout-prone skin, as well as allantoin to soothe. It also smells amazing: Notes of jasmine, orange flower, vanilla, and sandalwood combine for a subtle, pretty scent we can’t get enough of.
THE BODY EXFOLIATOR
This foaming body scrub smooths and softens skin with glycolic, lactic, and salicylic acids, as well as pumice and bamboo charcoal. We love the plant-derived surfactants, and of course the sleek, minimalist packaging that looks amazing in any shower.
MICRODERM INSTANT GLOW BODY POLISH
This invigorating, luxurious scrub and bodywash in one—the full-body version of our wildly popular GOOPGLOW Microderm Instant Glow Exfoliator—exfoliates, cleanses, and moisturizes. Salt; microexfoliating minerals like quartz, garnet, and hydrated silica; and hibiscus flower acid sweep away dead skin cells while the cleanser foams beautifully on your skin, and kakadu plum seed oil hydrates. The unique whipped texture (similar to that of the OG Microderm) clings to your skin, then froths up to rinse away easily, leaving your skin feeling baby-soft, smooth, totally clean, supple, and glowy. The subtle scent—juniper, fir needle, vetiver, and oakmoss—blooms beautifully in the shower, and the combination of exfoliants, cleansers, and hydrators feels incredible on your skin.
CAFÉ NOIR BODY EXFOLIANT
African Botanics Café Noir Body Exfoliant helps to tone and soften skin, leaving you with a natural glow. This non-abrasive skin renewal treatment has been designed to exfoliate, resurface and detoxify skin, while also helping to firm and brighten. Formulated with alpha and beta hydroxy-acids, which help to exfoliate and reduce the appearance of uneven skin tone, super-fine black coffee beans which help stimulate blood flow and promote collagen production, and crushed marula nut shell powder to enhance cell renewal. Lastly, this body scrub is enriched with African Botanic′s Distinct African Oil Complex, which is rich in omegas 3, 6, 7 and 9, to leave skin feeling supple and soft, and vitamin C and niacinamide provide firming and tightening properties to improve skin′s elasticity.
SMOOTHING BODY EXFOLIANT
Grown Alchemist Smoothing Body Exfoliant is a soothing, moisturizing body scrub features kaolin clay, peppermint and bergamot to cleanse, exfoliate and purify while a blend of bioactive botanical oils hydrate and soothe the skin, including the super-hydrating inca inchi seed oil and horse chestnut extract which is known for calming inflammation and may even help boost the natural production of hyaluronic acid. Guarana seed extract is one of the most potent sources of caffeine and is a popular Amazonian favorite for targeting cellulite and helping tighten the skin. Give your the skin on your legs, tummy and other parts of your body a re-boot with this smoothing, purifying, nourishing and toning exfoliator infused with the aroma of vanilla, ylang ylang and jasmine.
CACTUS FLOWER EXFOLIANT
This three-in-one oil cleanser, exfoliant, and moisturizer leaves your skin silky smooth and glowing. You will not need to apply a moisturizer afterwards. Cactus helps to cleanse and draw moisture to the skin. Hibiscus flower is rich in antioxidants, Vitamin C, and AHA′s that promote healthy glowing skin.
Naturally scented with a blend of jasmine and grapefruit oils.
