Savor Poll: Scrub Time!
I’ve been working on some fancy new scrubs, and I decided my new favorite material is pumice!
If you’re brave you can use it as a facial scrub, although it is pretty gritty and there’s always the risk of getting sand in your eyes, which would be completely unpleasant.
But a pumice foot scrub, man, that is heaven to me! I love it! I love it on elbows and on my back — I love to sort of polish my back with the scrub, as I think it makes my tattoo colors show more brilliantly (tattoo is fully healed, that’s the very important part). Each scrub type really has pros and cons — I love the softness I can get from a strong salt polish, but it can sting. Sugar won’t sting, but it melts away sometimes before I am done scrubbing. Oatmeal is great for the skin and gentle, so it doesn’t have a strong polishing effect. Pumice has incredible polishing ability, but isn’t suitable for all of our skin.
My favorite scrubs are probably citrus ones, although I think a ginger would work great, and herbal ones rock. I’ve always liked the Joie de Vivre jojoba scrub we sell.
My newest pumice scrub (called Footsie) is out in testing right now to approximately 20 customers — the scent is Vanilla Pinecones, and since I have it in mind for a holiday scrub it also has red and green jojoba beads in it. It’s an interesting blend and I think it’ll become a favorite!
What kinds of scrubs do you like? The poll below is arranged roughly (haha) in order of least-to-most-gritty.
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I have all these little open pores on my upper arms. I used a salt scrub once and YOWZAS!! I never felt a sting like that before! So I stick with sugar now!
I love the feel of oatmeal, but it leaves little pieces in the tub. I like jojoba beads instead, even though I clicked the wrong box in the survey. lol I don’t think I’ve ever used pumice in a scrub, so I can’t wait to try out your new creation.
Owie, Heather!! That made me cringe! I love to use a salt polish before I shave, but if I use after, my legs get red and sting-y.
I do love pumice! I’ve never used it in a soap before, just one of the pumice stones on my feet to get them all prettied up for summer! The soap sounds wonderful though. I looooove my Hot Buttered Oatmeal sugar scrub! Occasionally I will mix it with the Graham cracker (divine combination!) to get a little more of a scrubby going. I love the softness I get from sugar and oatmeal, but there are times when I need a little more roughness for elbows and such. Salt is great, but I do concur with you ladies that it can sometimes really aggrivate and sting my sensitive skin…I shall have to give the new pumice soap a go when it hits the shop Lisa!!
(BTW, I love the fall and holiday seasonal scents!)
I love salt scrubs over any other sort of scrub. I’m looking forward to your pumice scrubs! Pumice is great on my feet. It works better than almost anything to get rid of dry skin and make my feet soft and pretty!
Just got the sample of Vanilla Pinecones and tried it in the shower last night — LOVE it! Nice departure from the traditional peppermint scent that footscrubs normally come in. Plus, living in SoCal, I’m in flip flops every day so it was super nice to use this! Good texture — it could even be a little grainier if you wanted — and I love the winter-themed scent and jojoba beads. Definitely a great product!
long live the cannoli scrub with sugar and jojoba beads
if i were to buy a jojoba scrub, i would want it super grainy and really scrubby - i’d be using it only on feet (such is my social conditioning, huh?!)
i love the oatmeal and the jojoba beads in creme fraiches but don’t really consider them “scrubs” as such - they are just lovely ways to cleanse my body - when i buy something called a scrub, i want it to be very scrubby indeed!
p.s. where did the year go? i can’t believe christmas is not far away…
correction: if i were to buy a *pumice* scrub
(can you tell i like jojoba beads?!)
Oh my gawsh,I love pumice for those rough patches! Sometimes I mix the salt and sugar scrubs together and polish over a lightly soaped up skin and I find that it doesn’t do the “sting.” I also love to grind down Asian Palm Sugar rounds and mix it with various sugars from white to brown to turbinado and dermerera sugars because the palm sugar rounds are so fine and creamy that it really binds all kinds of sugars together without sacrificing the sugars’ exfoliating properties. Sometimes powdered enzymes that “match” the product such as apple enzyme powder with an apple blossom scent married with sugars really gives an incredibly smooth finish from head to toe, even hair! I do love and enjoy finely grounded Thai Iced Tea leaves in my cardamon, ginger, fennel, anise essential oils products, alongside of rose and cocoa absolute sugary scrubs. It really brings the performance to a whole new level, not to mention that wonderful Thai Iced Tea coloring and alluringly intoxicating fragrance. I also love haritaki powder, rice bran, oat flour and adzuki beans in my various scrubs for the body and kindly, also, for the face. Walnut shell powder is so much smoother and sexier but in the ’80’s it was a nightmare! And I love fine pumice powder in facial products because it’s incredible at how effective it is with so little used. I voted for oatmeal with vanilla bean powder (who doesn’t love vanilla bean powder?), sugar with jojoba and pumice. Lisa Salamida, I cannot wait to see your holiday collection. Whatever you create is gonna be a crowd pleaser for sure because Savor is just that kinda shop, y’know? You can NEVER go wrong with any Savor purchase. Never. Thank you Lisa for always sharin’ and carin’, bloggin’ and chattin’. xoxoxlovexoxoxo-r