Take note, as a general rule I do not recommend skin scrubs for facial skin. Not since a friend told me that she was certain all that gritty scrubing over all those years was likely the cause of her deep acne scarring.
But, on tougher body parts there’s nothing wrong with a gentle skin scrub to slough off dead skin cells, to rejeuvenate the skin’s surface and get the blood flowing closer to the surface, and to remove bacteria that may be lurking just beneath that top layer of dead skin.
At any rate, ’scrubs’ started 20 years or so ago as a natural way to polish skin. The whole trend started as chunks of finely ground apricot pits in a creamy base that was rubbed in a circular motion on your skin.
Now think about that for a moment. That’s just like rubbing sand in your face.
Face scrubs may not do damage once or twice over the span of your life, but twice a day, every day for decades?