Body scrubs are considered as one of the simplest yet the most effective ways to both moisturize everything and exfoliate the top layer of the dead skin as you massage the muscles. While you may think that the body scrubs are simply sugar and salt, actually you can use a plethora of oils and also natural ingredients for the rejuvenating scrub. If you want to know about using massage therapy body scrubs, you can simply check out the following tips.
The first step is to choose the scrub or simply make it by yourself, depending on what you want. In many body care stores, you can easily find olive oil body scrubs that look gently in moisture as they exfoliate.
The second step that you should do is to warm the body that you are going to apply this scrub by doing some gentle massage. If you want to speed the process of warm-up, you can place some warm damp cloth on the body. You have to make sure that the person is relaxed and is not feeling any discomfort like pain from cuts or sores, before you start it.
The third step is to apply liberal amount of body scrub to the particular area like hands, feet, upper back, and arms. In this step, you need to use a gentle massage for working the scrub into the area. You can apply a bit more pressure if the person can tolerate it so that the massage can be more thorough. Try to periodically easy up on the pressure and return to the gentle rubbing motion which focuses to get this scrub into the skin.
For the last step, you should place the damp cloths on area that you worked on after you have applied the scrub and also did the massage. After that, you have to wipe off the skin for removing any residue which settled on the skin surface. Then, you need to use cream or heavy body moisturizer for moisturizing the area and also locking in all of the nutrients and moisture that are provided by the body scrub.
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