17 Body Scrubs For Exfoliating Your Skin To Seriously Soft Status
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17 Body Scrubs For Exfoliating Your Skin To Seriously Soft Status
Body scrubs - they're an essential part of any pre-summer, de-scaling beauty routine. Because dry skin and flaky arms (not to mention the inevitable post-tan peeling) just isn't a good look.
'Our skin cells turn over at a gorgeous pace when we have youth on our side, however our cell turn over depletes and slows up taking nearly 90 days from our mid 20s!', says skin expert Michaella Bolder. 'To keep your skin looking and feeling fresh, healthy and glowing it’s imperative to exfoliate the skin every other day, this will help speed up the process of cell renewal and stimulate fresh blood flow that can help reduce poor circulation and improve the skins tone.'
Michaella's top tip? 'Using an exfoliator that is oil based is recommended to prevent drying and scratching the surface of the skin.'
Read on for the ELLE edit of the best body scrubs exfoliating your limbs to seriously soft skin status...
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Sunday Riley Charcoal Smoothie Body Scrub - £32
Those who are prone to body acne will love Sunday Riley's charcoal based scrub, which calls on the exfoliating powers of salicylic acid to unclog pores and lactic acid to polish and brighten the surface.
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Drunk Elephant Sugared Koffie Almond Milk Scrub - £27
Love a scrub that smells good enough to eat? A deliciously satisfying blend of powdered coffee beans and brown sugar work as the physical exfoliators in this scrub, delivering soft and supple skin with the help of almond milk and Marula oils.
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Espa Detoxifying Salt Scrub - £40
Is there anything better than unwinding with an indulgent bath routine at the end of the day? We think not. This uplifting body scrub with grapefruit, cypress and eucalyptus oil is revitalising not just for the skin but the mind too.
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This Works Perfect Legs 100% Natural Scrub - £24
Quite frankly, this does it exactly what it says on the tin. Himalayan salt and sea salt are combined with a luxurious blend of sweet almond oil, blackcurrant oil and crambe oil for a scrub that melts into the skin, gently exfoliating to leave you with glowing, smooth limbs.
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Keys Soulcare Body Polish - £25
Keys Soulcare take body care and turn it into a ritual rather than a chore. Bamboo charcoal, lactic and glycolic acid work in tandem to deeply cleanse and buff away surface debris, while coconut oil and sunflower seed oil deliver nutrients to nourish the skin.
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Mario Badescu Raspberry Body Scrub - £23.99
Forget skin-damaging manual scrubs, Mario Badescu's exfoliator is all about fruit enzymes. Let raspberry and papaya extract buff away dead, dull skin to revealing super soft, radiant skin underneath.
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OUAI Scalp & Body Scrub - £32
Perfect giving your scalp or your whole body a good old scrub, OUAI's exfoliator describes itself as a 'weekly detox for your hair and skin'. A mix of probiotics and sugar crystals help to balance bacteria levels and slough away dead skin.
. - 9/18
Pursoma Renew Coconut Body Polish - £17
A combination of freshly harvested Jamaican coconuts and raw grey sea salt make for a natural body scrub that smells seriously delicious.
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Beauty Pie Soul Providers Sugar Scrub - £12.88 for members, £50 for non-members
Apricot and evening primrose oils nourish your skin (and smell intoxicatingly good) whilst sugar crystals leave your skin velvety soft. No harsh exfoliating here.
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Seed To Skin The Awakening Algae Marine Salt Scrub - £115
Worth the investment, Seed To Skin's super luxurious body scrub is formulated with marine algae, shea butter and raw sea salt to help improve circulation, de-puff and buff away dead skin.
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Anne Semonin Nude Body Scrub - £79
Legendary facialist Anne Semonin knows a thing or two when it comes to soft skin (she created the first luxury hotel spa after all). Formulated with pink quartz powder and white hibiscus, this warming scrub moisturises, nourishes and soothes skin for a spa-worthy finish.
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Mio Heavenly Body Radiance Salt Scrub - £23
Let Mama Mio's fig, eucalyptus and sea salt scrub slough away dead skin, while almond and coconut oil hydrate. The result? A truly heavenly body.
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Herbivore Coco Rose Body Polish - £36
The award for the prettiest body scrub goes to Herbivore. All natural and synthetic-free, this pretty pink coconut oil-infused exfoliator uses Moroccan rose and sugar to exfoliate as it moisturises.
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Soap & Glory Flake Away Body Polish - £8.95
'Flake Away has the perfect consistency and offers deep nourishment whilst gently buffing away those pesky dead cells,' says Bolder.
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Aesop Geranium Leaf Body Scrub - £27
Use this milled pumice and micronised bamboo stem (yup, both legit ingredients) body scrub once a week for a good old exfoliate. Geranium leaf oil soothes skin, whilst mandarin and bergamot oil are anti-bacterial and smell epic.
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Ameliorate Smoothing Body Exfoliant - £18
When it comes to dry skin, Ameliorate know what they're doing. A legend in the beauty biz, this body exfoliator combines lactic acid with micr0-dermabrasion granules to slough away dead skin.
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Frank Body Coconut Coffee Scrub - £13.95
Frank's iconic coffee body scrub was a game changer for our shower routine (mainly it got a whole lot messier). Why? Because the coffee grounds enriched with grapeseed oil and coconut oil not only smell amazing, but work wonders on dry, bumpy skin as well. Also their Talk To Frank branding is genius.
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