Scrubbing and exfoliating the skin is essential as our skin regenerates new skin cells in every 27days and sheds the dead skin cells. This is a continuing process and sometimes the dead skin cells are not completely removed and we need to do it manually.

Being the largest organ in the body, skin has much more importance in our body system and has various functions like regulating the body temperature, protecting our body from harmful rays of sunlight, provide immunity etc. Therefore, taking good care of our skin is very important. Our skin regenerates new skin cells periodically and get rid of the old dead skin cells, to accelerate this process one can opt for skin exfoliation. A Skin exfoliation is removing the dead skin cells from the topper layer of the skin and make way to the new skin cells. Once the dead skin cells are removed, one can feel the soft, supple and smooth newly generated skin layer.

There are various types of exfoliating scrubs available in the market. It is hard to say which one is good and which is bad. The skin behaves differently person to person. It is advised to use an exfoliating scrub which has less or no chemicals in it or use a product which is made from 100% organically grown raw materials. The exfoliating scrubs can be sugar or salt based, also sometimes granule base like apricot scrub.

It is not advisable to exfoliate your body every day. You may end up with irritated skin, boils and various skin allergies as a reaction of skin. It is not good idea top strip your skin every day and that may result into serios skin infections and other skin irritations. It is ideal to exfoliate your only whenever you feel that your skin is not smooth as it used to be. If not that case, one shouldn’t be exfoliating their body skin not more than thrice a month.