Dry Brushing Your Skin – Instruction Guide & Skin Health Benefits

Dry brushing is when you use a stiff bristle brush in a specific pattern to help exfoliate the skin and provide numerous other health benefits. This wellness practice has been used since ancient times, but nowadays it is a fairly common pre-shower ritual. Many supporters of dry brushing claim that brushing the skin can help improve the flow of your lymphatic system, however, no clinical study has been done to support this theory. Other touted benefits of dry brushing include getting rid of spider veins, scrubbing away cellulite, helping digestion, or removing toxins however no clinical data currently supports these claims. Most people agree that dry brushing is a great way to help exfoliate your skin.

This is What You Will Need for Dry Brushing

  • a dry skin brush or body brush for dry brushing with natural or vegan-friendly bristles
  • a dry naked body
  • a washroom
  • a shower to jump into afterward1579252196(1)

Dry Brushing – How to get Started

  1. Get yourself naked In a room that is not carpeted – dry skin is gonna be cascading off your body, you don’t want it hiding out in the fibres of your carpet.
  2. Body Brush in hand, start at the base of your feet. To dry brush move upwards in circular or sweeping motions. When dry brushing you always want to move towards your heart. Therefore – from your feet to your breast/chest you are moving up, and from the neck to your breasts/chest, you are moving down.
  3. Make sure you get your backside, the palms of your hands and your neck.
  4. Be gentle with the areas of your body where your skin is sensitive. If you are sensitive everywhere, not to worry – use gentle pressure on the body brush and start with only dry brushing for 2-3 minutes.
  5. Take your time when dry brushing. You are going to want to go over the same area a few times, so work your way up slowly.
  6. This should be done for between 5-10 minutes
  7. Take a shower after you are done to wash off skin.
  8. Dry yourself off by softly patting down your skin – move towards the heart.
  9. Moisturize with a natural cream, coconut oil, olive oil or shea butter.

Why You Should Try Dry Brushing Your Skin

Dry brushing is a great way to exfoliate your skin. The stiff bristles on the brush help peel away dead skin cells from the surface of your body, helping unclog any pores.

Dry brushing can potentially help stimulate your lymphatic system. It circulates the body transporting lymph. When you are stagnant or if you injure a lymph vessel lymph can spill into the interstitial matrix creating a lymphatic cyst. Another thing that unhealthy and immobile lymph can create are stretch marks. If you’ve had a major lymph node removed (one located under the armpit, your neck or your groin) dry brushing as well as Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) is essential, primarily in the prevention of swelling of the surrounding body parts located in the vicinity of the removed or damaged lymph node.

The stimulation of the lymphatic system can potentially aid in cleansing the body of toxins as the lymphatic system cleanses some of the bodies waste (in the lymph nodes). The lymphatic system is also responsible for transporting nutrients throughout the body. Therefore increasing the circulation of the lymphatic system aids in increasing the energy flow through the body. Making it a great practice to include in your morning routine. However, no scientific studies support the lymphatic benefits of dry brushing.

Lastly, I shall reiterate the physical beauty it will instill onto you. Apart from making you feel great on the inside, it will also make your outer shell feel amazing. Clearing off dead skin cells by dry brushing will over time leave you with soft skin (if your body is experiencing a rather bad imbalance of nutrients this may implicate this from happening). Softening/eliminating those stretch marks won’t hurt either.


Post time: Jan-17-2020
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