For those of you who take regular salt baths for exfoliation (& pleasure), here's another one to try. It is less drying than salt can be (if that's an issue for you) & it maintains the acid mantle on your skin. You'll need:
Powdered milk
honey
Get the powdered milk cheaply in bulk at a health food place or an ethnic grocery store. Buy the cheapest honey you can.
Draw a hot (but comfortable) bath. Add 1-2 cups of powdered milk to the running water. It'll froth & bubble nicely. Add about 1/2c of honey. You might add a couple of drops of a pure essential oil you like to add a great scent. B4 jumping in, take a quick 'get clean' shower with your soap & microfibre cloth. Hop into your bath & luxuriate like Cleopatra. this is one of the most classic universal ancient timeless beauty secrets. Our sisters & brothers from Ancient Rome to Greece, Japan to India, Mongolia to England, Egypt to Ethiopia knew about this one.
You can also add 1c of coconut milk to make it extra rich. This moisturises w/o coating the skin with a barrier that'll affect the way your treatment creams later absorb.
After about 20 mins, your dead skin rolls off easily. Gross, but true & necessary. After draining the tub out, rinse yourself off well BUT w/o soap or scrubbing. Clean the tun immediately. Pat skin dry, wait 20 mins B4 applying treatment products.
You are officially taking a mild LA bath. It exfoliates the dead skin off in a way that'll shock you.
Powdered milk
honey
Get the powdered milk cheaply in bulk at a health food place or an ethnic grocery store. Buy the cheapest honey you can.
Draw a hot (but comfortable) bath. Add 1-2 cups of powdered milk to the running water. It'll froth & bubble nicely. Add about 1/2c of honey. You might add a couple of drops of a pure essential oil you like to add a great scent. B4 jumping in, take a quick 'get clean' shower with your soap & microfibre cloth. Hop into your bath & luxuriate like Cleopatra. this is one of the most classic universal ancient timeless beauty secrets. Our sisters & brothers from Ancient Rome to Greece, Japan to India, Mongolia to England, Egypt to Ethiopia knew about this one.
You can also add 1c of coconut milk to make it extra rich. This moisturises w/o coating the skin with a barrier that'll affect the way your treatment creams later absorb.
After about 20 mins, your dead skin rolls off easily. Gross, but true & necessary. After draining the tub out, rinse yourself off well BUT w/o soap or scrubbing. Clean the tun immediately. Pat skin dry, wait 20 mins B4 applying treatment products.
You are officially taking a mild LA bath. It exfoliates the dead skin off in a way that'll shock you.