Scrub Skin Free and Clear
Facial Scrubs Without the Plastic Particles to Save Your Skin and the Planet
By Jennifer Raskin
Looking your best requires a skincare ritual that effectively helps encourage healthy skin cell turnover. As we age, facial scrubs are a must in our weekly regimen. However, many options that buff your skin to youthful perfection often include plastic microbeads.
These tiny balls of plastic are in all sorts of beauty products, though they are often touted as the physical exfoliant that help you slough away dead skin cells on the surface. While they work, they are hugely problematic – they soak up all the toxins in the water, then get washed down the drain.
Where they go from there is the biggest problem…plastic microbeads are small enough to be easily digested by even the smallest animals in the food chain. These beads even bypass sewage treatment measures, and ultimately, they wind up in the foods we eat.
Thankfully, there are many amazing alternatives that will give your skin that freshly exfoliated glow without these harmful ingredients. Take a look at these natural facial scrubs that are free of plastic microbeads!
This gentle facial scrub helps eliminate dull, dead skin cells on the surface with sea kelp, walnut shell powder, and French green clay. Great for all skin types, it can be used three times per week to perk skin up, plus it has none of those nasty chemicals in it. Acure focuses on providing clinical and clean formulations that are effective and environmentally conscious.
Flower acids and oceanic exfoliants create a winning combination, making Osea Seaglow Resurfacing Scrub one of the top performers. This multi-tasking facial scrub promotes skin cell renewal while smoothing skin. The delightful whipped texture feels like silk on the skin while the AHA infused rice microparticles, flower acids, glacial oceanic clay powder, and other natural ingredients come together to help your skin thrive.
If you’ve ever envied how geishas have such immaculate, porcelain-like skin, you can steal their secret. This complexion polish uses rice powder and argan shell powder along with an array of anti-inflammatory ingredients to help smooth, brighten, and revive skin.
It smells almost good enough to eat, though this delicious combination of ingredients will feed your skin what it needs. Natural rice grains help scrub and lift away impurities while desert lime and strawberry AHAs boost skin radiance. The finishing touch is the blend of cold-pressed organic oils that keep skin beautifully balanced.
The Clean Dirt may just be one of the most perfect facial scrubs that balances nature’s harmony with infinite luxury. This powder formula converts into a rich, fizzy mousse when it meets water to give you an incredible glow-up. Silky smooth and bright skin await you with this hedonistic treasure that absolutely must be a part of your skincare revival.
As the colder weather ebbs away, get your skin ready to glow through spring with these exceptional natural facial scrubs, all sans plastic beads!