I like rough facial scrubs. I use them once or twice a week and I like to feel them scrubbing. I don’t like gentle refining polishers at all.
I have been told all my life that harsh scrubbing is not good for your skin. But I figure that at the age of 52, daily baking in the African sun without any sunscreen, and yo yo dieting in my teens and twenties did worse things for my skin than any scrub ever did.
Of the two, I prefer Aapri but St Ives is easier to find. I love it. If I can find neither of these two, I like Clinique 7-day scrub cream.
Ooh – I haven’t had a decent rough facial scrub in ages – I think I may have to try to get one today. I used to get told off for using the Body Shop body scrub gloves on my face, but it just feels so great 🙂
Oh I know! I love a rough scrub 🙂
I like the Clinique one as well. Also good is the Dead Sea Salts scrub (blue and white packaging in the UK at least!)
Oh that is one I must try! Thanks for the tip 🙂
Another good range, which is hard to find in the UK, is the ‘Yes to …’ range. There’s a choice of cucumbers, carrots and tomatoes! The ‘Yes to cucumbers’ range is the nicest, but doesn’t have a scrub – or not that I’ve found. The carrot scrub is pretty good.
Oh I love the Yes to Carrots one – they have the carrot and cucumber ranges in South Africa. Never tried the scrub but I like their cleanser.
Try here for the Yes to Carrots range. I often buy from this UK site as they ship to Sweden.
http://www.victoriahealth.com