While a cup of steaming coffee is the first thing many people worldwide go for every morning, there’s more to coffee than most people know. With skin health identified as a priority, the usage of coffee scrubs is slowly getting popular in different communities. Coffee scrubs are being used by a lot of people in a process called exfoliating. Exfoliating is the process of rubbing or washing the skin with a substance to remove dead skin cells. According to dermatologists, the skin is repeatedly exposed to different environmental pollutants like dust and more. With those pollutants, the skin pores get clogged, and the skin has a hard time breathing. With coffee scrubs, you can exfoliate and get rid of dead skin alongside other pollutants. Aisha Kankindi, the co-founder of AMI Body Organics, shares the origin of coffee scrubs and the importance of exfoliating. “Coffee scrubs are skin exfoliators made from pure Arabica coffee. Coffee scrubs help exfoliate and rejuvenate the skin by removing dead skin,” she says. She adds, “Coffee scrubs also help in reducing the appearance of cellulite and stretch marks on the skin. Among other benefits of using coffee scrubs, they also aid in preventing the skin from premature ageing such as sagging and wrinkles, keep the skin soft, and prevent acne on sensitive skin.” Kankindi says one can make their own coffee scrub at home, or buy it from a store. “You have everything in your kitchen to make a coffee scrub, but you need to use high-quality ingredients because you will apply it to your skin, otherwise buy it in a store nearby. What you can’t eat, you can’t put on your skin,” she says. According to Kankindi, coffee scrubs are suitable for men, women, and children. She also says that a coffee scrub made from organic products has little to no side effects on the body. In making a coffee scrub, one needs coffee, coconut oil, and raw sugar. She adds that scrubbing the body is removing dead skin, and you don’t need to overdo it, as the skin is delicate and has to have enough time to regenerate new cells, which is why it is advised by skin experts not to use the scrub more than once a week.
