- Hello everyone,
and welcome back to the Adore Beauty YouTube channel.
My name is Amelia, and if we haven't met before,
I am a beauty content creator, a makeup artist
and I've also worked in the skincare industry
and beauty industry since I was about 19,
I'm 32 now so that's a while.
in today's video we are going to be talking
all about dry brushing or dry body brushing.
And this is a really popular treatment
in the wellness industry
so I'm going to break it down for you,
I'm going to bring out a dry brush.
Oh, this one's stuck.
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Okay, so what is dry body brushing
and where did it come from?
So, dry body brushing is a traditional Ayurvedic practise,
the name for it is Garshana
and that translates to friction by rubbing
so that's pretty straightforward in describing
what you were doing.
So, you are essentially taking a bristled brush,
this one is a blend of bamboo and sisal, I believe.
This?
Yes, sisal.
Sea salt?
No it's sisal.
And you were basically just doing broad sweeping motions
across your limbs to stimulate lymphatic drainage,
basically reenergize your mind and your mood.
What are the benefits?
Obviously, it's going to help with cell turnover
because you are essentially exfoliating,
and cell turnover.
So as down as we age,
so anything that you can do to help, you know,
bring those new, fresh baby skin cells to the surface
is good in my books.
Apart from that, you are helping with lymphatic drainage
and so really the technique is so important in this.
You're not just kind of like haphazardly
like rubbing the body with this brush,
there is a proper technique.
Okay, so when it comes to incorporating
dry brushing into your routine
I would suggest doing it one to two times a week.
Once a week to start with
so that you can get used to the pressure and the feel
of the bristles on the skin.
I'm not somebody who would do it every day.
There would be people who would, you know,
dry brush their skin too much
and you don't want it to be irritating the skin.
You can also do it on your face,
I would use a different brush for that.
There is one from Aveda
and I believe the bristles are a little bit softer
because it's your face,
you don't want to be scraping, like I said, too hard.
And would you do any other exfoliation on your body
at the same time?
No.
There would be absolutely no need to then go in
with a body scrub or an exfoliating like body treatment,
you would just be overdoing it.
And also, I would avoid doing it If you have psoriasis,
if you have eczema, if you have any body breakouts,
if you have inflamed skin, irritated skin,
if you are somebody who's quite sensitive,
I just would avoid it because this will irritate it,
it will make it worse.
And now let's get into the technique.
So, I'm not going to stand up
and show you my feet and my legs,
so just, they're just they're not camera ready,
(laughing)
But I will show you on arms and so,
what you would typically do is,
do this before a shower.
So, I often do it on my T3 shower day
which would be like a Sunday,
and that's where I'm like washing my hair,
doing full body exfoliation with the dry brushing
and then doing a tan, you know, the whole shebang.
So before a shower, I would take the brush,
start at your feet or at your legs,
I start at the bottoms of my legs
and then work my way up towards the heart.
So everything is going towards the heart,
so if you are doing this on your arms, for instance,
you'd be starting at your hands
and then broad sweeping motions up to the heart.
And being gentle, don't push too hard,
you don't want a lot of pressure on the skin,
and then moving to the other side.
And so on, and so forth.
When you are going on your chest be really gentle,
the skin is much thinner in this area
and you don't want to be like scraping too hard.
Broad sweeping motions,
and then use a different one on your face
and use it in the same, if you do Grasha,
use it the same way where you are kind of sweeping outwards,
everything outward so that it can drain down here.
So that's the technique and then obviously
just hop in the shower, rinse all that dead skin off,
and then hydrate.
I personally love using a body oil after
but you can also use a body cream.
You just want to make sure that your body is moisturised
after you do this because you have just exfoliated.
You want to make sure that you are hydrating your skin
and protecting your skin's barrier.
Miranda Kerr her who I found out about body brushing from,
she actually has a really beautiful body oil
that you can use afterwards
and that one is the Noni Glow Body Oil.
Otherwise I really loved
the Kiehl's Creme de Corps body moisturiser
that is heaven on dry skin.
So, so good.
So the body brush is from Black Chicken,
this one retails for 34.95.
Do you need to do body brushing?
No, but we know how beneficial it is to exfoliate your skin.
Everybody exfoliates their faces,
so why would you not do the same thing for your body?
But if you love the idea
of incorporating a wellness practise
into your weekly routine,
then I think that you will enjoy this.
If you have any questions
that you feel like I didn't address in this video
about dry body brushing,
please feel free to pop a comment down below.
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Hopefully I will see you in another video soon,
have a great day, bye.