Exfoliation is very important to keep your skin clean, glowing, and beautiful. But, you don’t always need to rush to the market to buy a scrub full of chemicals. You can easily make your own scrub at home with the best thing you can use to exfoliate your skin — sugar. Yes, you read that right! Sugar has excellent scrubbing properties and can prove to be just the thing you were looking for. It contains alpha hydroxy acids that work easily to remove the dirt and dead cells clogging your pores

How To Make A Homemade Sugar Scrub

The scrubs you would use for your face are different from the ones you use for the rest of the body. The skin on the face is comparatively more sensitive and needs more care. Here are a few scrubs suitable to be used on the face.

The exfoliating properties of sugar need to be balanced with an emollient so that the scrubbing action does not dry up your skin too much. Usually, oils are used, which also provide the skin with nourishment. Additional components of the scrub may include essential oils (for their endless list of benefits) and detanning agents like lemon juice. A gentle mixing of all ingredients is usually all that is required to make a sugar scrub. You obviously don’t want the sugar to melt away.

Apply the scrub in gentle, circular motions. Massage it well onto the skin for a couple of minutes and rinse with water. Your skin will definitely feel smoother and look brighter.

Check out these amazing sugar scrubs!