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Brazilian Beach Scrub

Check out this amazingly simple "recipe" I stumbled across while surfing the net!!

Beach Sand Foot Scrub

2 Tablespoons Canola oil
2 Tablespoons dry beach sand
3-5 drops rosemary oil

The next time you decide to spend the day at the beach, take advantage of the "on location foot treatment."  Brazilians, particularly, are known for scrubbing their entire bodies, particularly the feet, deep into the sand while they relax on the beach. 

When going to the beach, take a small vial of ingredients with you:  2 tablespoons of canola oil (or use your suntan oil!), and, a small vial of rosemary oil — or premix and take one vial.

Once at the beach, use an empty container (a soda cup is fine) to mix the ingredients together. Mix into a paste.  Massage sand scrub onto feet (and elbows), concentrating especially on problem areas.  Rinse off in the foamy waves, pat dry with your beach towel.

This sounds sooo easy and totally effective. I will try to remember to link it again as the summer nears – it’s simply perfect for summertime! Thanks to SpaIndex.com for the resource!

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The Daily Grind

Ok so I will admit something. The Aveda Carribbean Therapy bodyscrub I just reviewed was totally a gift. I would never ever pay 38 smackers for a body scrub…even if it IS Aveda (My favorite product line). Here is what I used throughout college when money was tight, and now when organics are SO in!

The Daily Grind – Homemade Latte Scrub

2 cups of coarsely ground coffee (grind up some coffee beans to the count of 10 in an electic grinder)

1/2 cup raw sugar or sea salt (sugar will desolve easier, salt will exfoliate more, sugar smells better)

2-3 T massage oil (or whatever body oil you happen to have in your cupboard)

Mix all ingredients together. Take a hot shower to moisten your skin and open your pores. Using wide, circular motions, rub the coffee exfoliant onto your skin with strong, even pressure. If you are using sugar, let the mixture sit on your skin for a bit to let the minerals dissolve. I usually will do my other shower activities while the scrub sits on my skin (wash hair, face, shave legs etc) Shower off, pat skin dry (don’t rub if you can help it), and apply a thin layer of your favorite body lotion. Layering with a nice coffee scent or even vanilla scented lotion will totally lock the Latte smell in. Mmmmmm! And it cost next to nothing!

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Aveda Carribbean Therapy

It seems like everyone has a sugar based scrub these days, and Aveda is on the bandwagon too. Packaged in a tub and needing to be scooped out and slathered on either wet or dry, it has more benefits from the oil methinks than the sugar scrub. With a name like Carribbean Therapy, it does indeed sound a bit more upscale than a basic sugar meets oil scrub, but that is exactly what it is, with a faint scent of a Mojito. Which isn’t a bad thing, really.

The bad thing is that you can buy a comparative product from Target for 1/10th of the price, and you really won’t be able to tell the difference. Aveda is by far one of my favorite products, but this one simply doesn’t make me want to shell out the $38 bucks.

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MakeupBy Rosalinda

Located in the Los Angeles area, Rosalinda Macias is the bomb makeup artist!! I just saw her on Oxygen’s “The Bad Girl’s Club” and actually also have the pleasure of working with her in real time and have seen the magic she works. Faces start around $150 for a Hollywood Look that will guarantee the MOST amazing photos and memories! Check out MakeupByRosalinda.com for her full portfolio!

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Reflexology

Being a footfanatic, I have always thought that reflexology and me would be a match made in heaven. Notsomuch. Reflexology, or zone therapy, is the practice of stimulating points on the feet, hands and ears, in order to encourage a beneficial effect on some other parts of the body, or to try to improve general health. Reflexology is most commonly performed on the feet, moving on to the hands and/or ears where physical restraints, such as veruccas or fractures, apply.

Practitioners believe the foot to be divided into a number of reflex zones corresponding to all zones of the energy of the body, and that applying pressure in the form of massage to “tight” or “gritty” areas of a person’s foot will stimulate the corresponding part of the energy body and assist the self-healing process. Contrary to some beliefs, reflexology does not seek to diagnose or cure medical conditions – merely imbalances in the energy of the body.** From Wikpedia.com

My final determination has concluded that the non-pressured pressure doesn’t really seem worthwhile to spend and entire hour on while my feet get stretched and moved around and find that most massage therapists will actually incorporate elements of reflexology into the massage appointment. And after experiencing it firsthand, I realize that my dentist Dr Tank’s nurse actually uses reflexology on my ear while the dentist is injecting my gums with the numbing agent. Interesting!

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