The Best Body Exfoliators For Ultra Silky, Smooth Skin
We get it, staying in for long periods of time on end can lead to our usual beauty routines being thrown off balance. But fret not, for we have just the right tools to get you well on your way to silky smooth skin again. Enter the humble body scrub.
These body scrubs do well to exfoliate the skin by sloughing off dead skin cells to reveal beautiful, newly generated skin cells underneath. You can properly scrub your skin often (once or twice a week), well, and with light pressure in the showers.
But be sure to get the right products and method - harsh and abrasive ingredients do more than just hurt your skin, but may cause damage to its outer layer, too. Ahead, we list the best body exfoliators that are just the right amounts of gentle, yet effective, and will leave you with baby soft, smooth skin.
Clarins Tonic Sugar Polisher, $69
Missing the spa? You can now recreate that spa-like experience with this sugar body exfoliator by Clarins. It’s packed full of sugar and salt crystals with a delicious, revitalising blend of rosemary, rosewood and mint essential oils that will transport you to a spa on a faraway island. Look forward to polished and soft skin as you step out of the showers, as it works to eliminate dead skin cells and impurities, while protecting the skin’s layers.
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Sand and Sky Australian Pink Clay Smoothing Body Sand, $56
This scrub comes in a 4-in-1 formula for an all around glowing body. It includes purifying Australian Pink clay, exfoliating coconut and macadamia shell, moisturising and luxurious Virgin Macadamia Oil, all topped off with environmentally-friendly mica glitter for a lovely shimmer. Simply massage in circular motions, and then rinse off, for a glow that will last all day long.
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Lush Scrub Scrub Scrub Shower Scrub, $40
Don’t be intimidated by its dark colours. This scrub by Lush contains a potent blend soothing and antibacterial powdered charcoal, blackberry puree and cleansing fine sea salt, and nourishing oils including Buchu, Rosemary and Pine to polish and transform your skin.
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FIRST AID BEAUTY KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub With 10% AHA, $41
This clean body scrub by First Aid Beauty contains both physical and chemical exfoliants, in the form of Pumice buffing beads, and glycolic and lactic acids with a combined level of 10% AHAs, and a perfect amount of grittiness to its texture to loosen skin’s top layers and decongest pores as you scrub.
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Pursoma Refresh Seaweed Body Polish, $25
This vegan body polish comes in hand-harvested French Grey Sea Salt as exfoliant, and seaweed to give your skin that boost of vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and antioxidants, for gently exfoliated, youthful looking skin. It also comes with a sachet of nourishing Rice Bran, Coconut and Jojoba oils for an enhanced shower experience.
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Bean Body Coffee Bean Scrub - Manuka Honey, $32
For soft, smooth skin, while combating cellulite, look for body scrubs that contain caffeine, such as this one by Bean Body. It gently exfoliates while stimulating circulation to help counteract the appearance of cellulite, and even eczema, stretch marks, age spots, and more. Other exfoliating ingredients include demerara sugar and himalayan salt, nourishing cocoa, Vitamin E, coconut oil and manuka honey.
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SUSANNE KAUFMANN Detox Oil Scrub, $187
This ultra-luxurious scrub by Sasanne Kaufmann contains a blend of organic, plant-based ingredients sourced straight from the Alps Valley, Bregenzer Forest, including healing sesame oil, soothing Bisabolol, and gently exfoliating Poppy seeds.
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The Body Shop Almond Milk & Honey Gently Exfoliating Cream Body Scrub, $33
One of the best body scrubs for dry and sensitive skin out there, honey helps to soothe irritation and redness, while the lactic acid from the almond milk helps to dissolve dead skin cells and speed up cell renewal, with real crushed almond shells to gently buff away dead skin cells. Thanks to its sensitive ingredients, you can use it everyday to get rid of rough spots and to gradually lighten skin.
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