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Summary: Taking care of dry skin at home, avoiding skin care costs of spas, is easier today with popular beauty products. Learn tips for home facial scrubs on dry skin from an esthetician in this free spa treatment video.
Karen Lange is a certified aesthetician and has worked in the beauty industry for nearly a decade. Lange graduated from Skyline College in two years where she received her...read more
"So tips for home care for dry skin types. In addition to using a gentle scrub, you can use a nice nourishing night cream. And usually that moisturizer would be for dry skin type. It's very important, some of us with dry skin would not want to use something that's for, like acneic or oily skin type. A dry skin usually is lacking in oil, so, by using a moisturizer for dry skin, you're really replenishing that moisture or oil back into the skin. And it's also, you know, acts like a barrier or protector, so going out into, you know, bad weather, or other things that are damaging to the skin, it will really, you know, just keep the skin nice and neutralize and normalize. So additional home care tips for using a facial scrub would be to definitely avoid the eye area. Meaning this fragile area at right underneath your eye ball. Using something that's really exfoliant, like a facial scrub does not need to go in this area at all. And also, using a scrub on a daily basis is not needed. Definitely stick to using a scrub about two to three times a week. And then when using a facial a scrub, you definitely just want to let the product do the job as far as being the exfoliator. Your fingertips should not, you should not apply any pressure on your face. And the scrub is just going to do the job on its own."
eHow Article: Tips for Dry Skin