Revealing the secrets of how to make a homemade hand scrub

Almost all women in one way or another pay attention to caring for their own appearance, at least it should be so. But not every part of the body deserves due care from its owner. For example, many will now agree with us, rarely does anyone come to full-fledged hand care. At best, they are regularly pampered with cream, sometimes with herbal teas. This is unfair, because it is the skin of the hands that gives out the true age of a woman. What to do? Introduce various types of homemade hand scrubs into her care - and you won't regret it!

Rules for the use of hand scrubs

A hand scrub will give a tangible effect if you follow certain recommendations regarding its use.

• Cosmetic with abrasive ingredients should only be applied to pre-moistened hands. This will make it easier for the cleansing mixture to come into contact with your skin.
• It is advisable to steam your hands before using the scrub. For this purpose, you can make a warm herbal bath. This will make it easier to remove the stratum corneum.
• After the scrub is on the surface of your hands, massage the problem area lightly but vigorously. Treat not only the back of the palms, but also the wrists and each finger. The minimum duration of the procedure is 1-2 minutes.
• If you have dry skin on your hands, use homemade scrubs with oily ingredients. Moreover, in contrast to cleansing the face in this way, for hands you can choose natural ingredients with a high lipid content. This will not affect the work of the sebaceous glands in the skin of the palms and fingers.
• Use cosmetic products designed for deep cleansing of the skin of the hands, no more than 2 times a week. This is quite enough to remove dirt, dead cells and at the same time to increase the tone of the body.
• At the end of the massage, wash off the hand scrub with warm water. Then dry the skin of your hands by blotting with a towel, and lubricate it with a moisturizer or nourishing cream.
• Hand scrubs should not be applied to bodies that have damage such as scratches, cuts, abrasions.
• Before full use of the product, test it to determine whether or not you have an allergic reaction to the components of the hand scrub. Apply some beauty product to the fold of your elbow. If the skin does not turn red and does not become covered with an itchy rash, feel free to use the formula.

The composition of cleansers

Home scrubs for hands, regardless of their shape, always consist of a base and abrasive particles.

As a base, you can use any type of hand cream or baby cream; homemade sour cream, natural honey, vegetable oils; liquid, baby soap or colorless base for making handmade soap. The role of abrasive is sea and table salt, granulated sugar, baking soda, natural ground coffee, cosmetic clay, eggshells ground into powder. Even the usual fine sand, such as happens on the beaches, will do. Sometimes in the recipes of such cosmetics, you can find a mention of milk, water or mineral water without gas. These liquids are necessary to transform some components of the future beauty product into a homogeneous mixture.

How to make a DIY scrub soap

Well, we told how to use and what the hand scrubs consist of, it's time to move on to homemade recipes. Let's start with a hand scrub soap. So.

To replenish your collection of cosmetics with homemade soaps with a deep cleansing effect, get:

• molds where you will pour the prepared soap composition;
• grater - for grinding a solid bar of soap;
• two small containers - for organizing a water bath.

Coffee scrub soap

You will need: 1 tbsp. freshly ground black coffee, a couple of pieces of baby soap, 1 glass of warm water, 1 tbsp each. almond and olive oils, 5 drops of ylang-ylang essential extract. Prepare a soap base in the evening, for which grate baby soap into a bowl, pour the resulting product with warm water (½ cup). Leave this mixture overnight. In the morning, make coffee, filter. Place the resulting soap base in a water bath. Once warm, add oils and coffee grounds. Stir the mixture and pour into molds. Put the cooled soap in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

Diy milk and honey scrub soap

Components: baby soap - 100 g, water - 1.5 cups, grape seed oil - 0.5 tablespoons, orange essential oil - 10 drops, a mixture of vitamins A and E - 15 drops, milk - ¼ cup, liquid honey - 1 tsp, dried chamomile flowers - 1 tbsp As in the previous version, you will have to turn a bar of soap into small shavings, then pour water over it and put it in a water bath. Add milk and honey to the warm solution, stir thoroughly. Then add oils and vitamins into the mixture, add chopped chamomile flowers. Stir again and pour into molds. Place the soap in a cool place to harden.

Homemade recipes for scrub masks

Your hands will be very grateful to you if you periodically use beauty products such as hand scrub masks to cleanse your skin. The only inconvenience you will encounter when using these homemade cosmetic products is the need to keep the nutrient mixture on the surface of the skin for a while after applying it and lightly massaging it.

Here are some of the best recipes for hand scrub masks at home.

Recipe number 1. Take: 1 part sea salt, the same amount of high-fat sour cream, a few drops of peach oil. Combine the components, apply a homogeneous mixture to the skin of the hands, massage and leave alone for 5 minutes. Then wash your hands with warm running water and glycerin soap.

Recipe number 2. Ingredients: crushed oatmeal (but not to the state of flour), heavy milk cream, light honey. Mix the ingredients in a 1: 1: 1 ratio, Apply the scrub to the surface of your hands, massage. Rinse off after 15 minutes.

Recipe number 3. You will need: cocoa powder - 2 tablespoons, brown sugar - 1 tablespoon, avocado oil - 0.5 tsp, banana pulp - 1 tablespoon. Combine cocoa and sugar, pour in a little water or milk. Turn the banana into mashed potatoes, add oil to it and add this gruel to the sweet mixture. Rub a homogeneous product into moisturized skin of hands for 2 minutes. Then wait another 10 minutes and rinse off the beauty product.

Scrub cream at home

The most delicate type of cosmetic product in texture, with which you can rid the skin of the hands of dead cells and cleanse the skin pores, is a cream scrub. In addition, it removes dryness, roughness of the skin, smoothes wrinkles.

We will tell you how to make a gentle hand scrub right now.

Walnut oil hand scrub. It is necessary to prepare: raw egg yolks - 2 pcs., Butter - 2 tsp, flour from walnut kernels - 2 tbsp. Melt the butter, whisk the yolks. Both components must be combined, and then flour is added to the mixture. The scrub cream should be smooth. Store it in the refrigerator.

Recipe for semolina hand scrub. You will need the same amount of nourishing hand cream and semolina. Place them in a glass jar, stir. After applying the product to the skin and light massage, wait until the cream is absorbed, only then remove the product residues with a damp cotton swab.

Regular use of homemade hand scrubs will help you keep your hands looking youthful and beautiful for years to come!