One of my most popular creations is my Foaming Charcoal Powdered Cleanser, a powdered cleanser made with fresh botanical ingredients that you mix yourself with a liquid of your choice to create a face wash paste.

This Honey Butter Charcoal Bubble Scrub is a “cleansing balm'“ based on this powdered cleanser. With the addition of the liquid ingredients, I whip up tiny batches into a creamy paste and add my “Alpenglow” blend of essential oils.

BEST FOR:

• Just about everyone can enjoy this scrub a few times a week at night.

• Especially excellent for acne-prone and mature skin types.

• If you have very reactive, sensitive skin or feel persistently parched, I suggest you consider using this scrub in combination with the Cold Cream Cleanser (see instructions below).

KEY INGREDIENTS

• The purest, organic, cold pressed, virgin, unrefined seed oils including jojoba, almond, and avocado, whipped with nut butters Mango, Shea and kokum.

• Pure, Raw, Fresh, Local honey.

• Stone ground, organic, sprouted white rice.

• Activated bamboo charcoal to detox skin.

• Alginic Acid from wild harvested, cold water seaweed.

• Finely powdered botanicals for gentle exfoliation including aloe, salt and sugar.

• Wild mint I’ve collected from the mountains and mint grown in my garden.

• Thioctic Acid (ALA is ALPHA LIPOIC ACID). A gentle, exfoliant and antioxidant known to improve skin tone and texture, helping reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. ALAs are more gentle than BHAs in skin care.

• Non-nano zinc oxide - a deeply nourishing ingredient known for its healing properties and anti-acne benefits.

• Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate (SLSA) and Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate (SCI) provide the bubbles and help ensure a quick rinse. (SLSA and SCI are both naturally derived from coconut. These 2 ingredients are gentle on your skin and the environment. Don’t confuse them with SLS (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate); they are not at all the same! SLSA and SCI are both natural alternatives to skin-irritating, synthetic SLS. SLSA and SCI are both certified natural ingredients and earn COSMOS certification (organic or natural cosmetics) | Ecocert.

This scrub needs “slip”. To help ensure a gentle scrub always apply to wet skin or combined with my Cold Cream.

Note that this is not a mask - please rinses it off within a few minutes of application.

• Remove eye makeup with your preferred method.

• Apply about an almond sized amount of the scrub to WET skin and replace the lid to avoid contamination with water and germs (no wet fingers in the jar please.

• Use fingertips to exfoliate briskly but gently. Remember to get right up next to your hairline and jaw, these are places we sometimes overlook. And give your lips a good once over too!

• After about 1 - 2 minute … Splash with water water and then with open palms, briskly wash your face. You should notice bubbles now!

• After a few moments of briskly washing, splash a few times with warm water (never HOT) to rinse.

• Finally, wipe gently with a warm, clean, wet washcloth to ensure all debris is removed and your face is clean! (Never ever hot water!)

• Pat dry, spritz with hydrosol to condition and tone (re-acidify) the skin, and apply your favorite lotion, cream, facial oil etc.

Another method: first apply My Cold Cream Silk Cleanser to dry skin with dry fingers and massage gently to start to loosen and dissolve debris. Then apply a small amount of Honey Butter Face Polish (about the size of an almond) I like to do this right before I get in the shower once or twice a week.

The Cold Cream provides the slip needed to use the scrub safely, without water. You will be adding the water next, so after scrubbing briskly as described above, follow the same steps I outline to remove.

SKIN CARE TIP: Only wash and scrub your face at night.

New skin cells need time to mature. When we exfoliate by any means, new skin cells are revealed.

These baby skin cells are not ready to take on the stressors of the day - most importantly, SOLAR RADIATION!

Making a habit of only washing and exfoliating at night gives the new skin cells enough time to mature fully. By the morning, our skin is better able to protect itself from the stress of the day (solar radiation, pollution, allergens) and retain skin hydration, reducing the feeling of tight, parched, dehydrated skin. Our skin will feel better and look better over time.

Harmful solar rays penetrate windows and clouds! Wear a good mineral zinc sunscreen every day to prevent premature aging, and remember to remove it at the end of the day. Studies show that over 80% of skin damage is due to solar damage. Please choose a simple mineral sunscreen, not a chemical sunscreen (for a number of reasons!). Can You Reverse Sun Damage?

EXFOLIATING DO’S and DON’TS (no matter what you use for this step)

Regardless of what you use to exfoliate your face (chemical or mechanical) only ever exfoliate at night (or at the end of the day, after exposure to sunlight is no longer an issue). This allows the new, immature skin cells you’ve revealed plenty of time (8-12 hours) to mature. In the morning, after a night of restorative sleep, the new skin cells have matured and are best able to take on the stress of the day (namely damaging solar rays).

Only exfoliate 2-4 times a week - this depends on many factors. Most notably - AGE! Young women - under the age of 30 without acne should only exfoliate 1 -2 times a week! Those with acne, very, very gently 3-4 times a week. Women 30-40 about 3 times a week, and women over 50 - 4 nights. Everyone is different of course, the most important thing to remember is that young skin (under 30) exfoliates naturally very well! As we advance past 30 it starts to slow down and we need to help it along a bit. Regardless of your age or skin condition, don’t over do it please! Your skin will look better and perform best when we just exfoliate gently and not too often.

Morning Routine & After Morning Workouts (Scroll down for a suggestion on how to freshen your skin when you awake and cleanse after your morning workout without disrupting healthy skin function (hint: you probably have some of this in your cupboard right now so you can start this practice TODAY.

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