Dry brushing benefits the skin by helping keep your skin smooth, soft, and healthy. By dry brushing, it helps with stimulating the sweat glands (which will decrease with age resulting in mature skin that often will cause your skin to be dry), which will stimulate the connective tissue and collagen in the skin. Here is why dry brushing is helpful to your skin.
- It helps to exfoliate the layer of dead skin which helps to enhance the skin's appearance. With age, our skin tends to decrease.
- Dry skin brushing helps keep the skin smooth, soft, and healthy.
- It stimulates the skin while approving the circulation which helps to improve elimination.
- Stimulates the lymphatic system, by helping with accelerating filtration.
- It can help with breaking up the cellulite which helps to prevent any more cellulite from forming by avoiding lymphatic and capillary congestion.
- It also helps to tone the muscles, relax the muscles and stimulate the nerve endings.
Important information
- never wet your brush. Dry brushing requires the brush to be dry. Water acts as a lubricant and by wetting the brush you lose the benefits of the friction are lost.
- Always use a natural bristled brush, use a long-handled bath brush The reason you do not want to use a nylon brush is it will tear the skin and disturbs the electro-magnetic balance of your skin.
-When you dry brush your skin start with small circles brushing all over your body on bare skin.
-Start at the feet and work toward the heart this helps to stimulate venous circulation.
-Never bush the face or any inflamed or tender areas.
-Always use a natural bristled brush with a long bath brush. Nylon brush tears the skin that will disturb any electro-magnetic that balance the skin.
-Do brush the sole of your feet.
When you first start dry brushing your skin it may] feel a little rough, but start with gentle pressure until you get used to the sensation .
- Dry brush about once a week for best results.
To get the full benefits of dry brushing it's best to consistently dry bush and you will start seeing results in a few months.
Reference: ACHS
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