5 Minutes to Feel Good in Your Skin
28-day Dry Skin brushing Challenge
Equipment
- 1 Towel
- 1 Dry skin brush Optional
- 1 Loofah Optional
Notes
How to do the Dry Skin Brushing Challenge
For the challenge you only have to do the basic dry skin brushing routine at least 3 times a week for 4 weeks (28 days). Assess and score your overall well-being - especially those areas mentioned at the start of this article - before you begin and again when you complete the dry skin brushing challenge. You can use a dry towel, dry skin brush or loofah. Basic Dry Skin Brushing Routine- Start from your feet and brush upwards in long sweeps along the front, back and sides of your legs. Include your buttocks. Medium pressure.
- Then go from your hands to your shoulder in the same manner. Don’t forget the back of your neck!
- Use a circular (anticlockwise to mimic the colon and aid the process) movement across your abdomen and then for your armpits.
- When it comes to your back, I always go upwards in short strokes from the base of my back and downward strokes from my shoulders. Don’t forget your sides under your arms which I do in short strokes.
- I go very gently if at all, over my chest area and avoid my face