Hellllooooo fabulous!
Now that we’ve manifested our asses off, let’s dry brush them too! If ya really want the “glow” ya gotta dry brush baby. We dump tons of toxins out of our skin so it’s important to keep the pathway clear. Dry brushing loosens dead cells, stimulates acupressure points, tickles your chi, massages your meridians, moves the lymph, helps reduce CELLULITE, stimulates your immune system, wakes up circulation and makes your skin soooo soft and velvety! You can get a natural bristle brush at WF’s or any health food store. I don’t use a brush. Personally, I use those cheap little loofah gloves that you can get at any drug store. They are easy to use and both hands can go wild! If you find natural ones great, I have them too but they kinda hurt. The mits you can throw in the wash and toss when they’re too broken in.
How to brush: Technically they say that it’s best to start with your feet and work your way up your body using both circular and long strokes – moving towards your heart or your navel (depending who you read). Gotta say, I do whatever I’m inspired to do and it seems to work just fine. It’s dry brushing, not rocket science! Whatever, throw some circular motions and upward sweeps in there, add your own shazzizle and call it a day. The best to time brush is before a shower or bath in the morning, once a day. Be gentle. Note: there is a whole section about dry brushing in the bonus features of CSC.
When I brush on a regular basis I do see a big difference in my skin. I tend to get ingrown hairs and bumps in the winter (more information than you probably wanted to know). If I don’t dry brush it gets like a highway of nasty! I’m also a lizard. Always have been. Dry brushing removes the scale like grids from my chins which Brian really appreciates. 🙂
If ya really wanna take it to the next level use some organic coconut oil after your shower or bath. OH YEAH!
So there ya have it, Pretty simple stuff. Now go have some fun stroking yourself! 🙂
PS. Avoid your face and other bits and pieces.
Peace and loofahs,
Hello Kris,
It’s actually really important that you dry brush towards your heart. Why? Because you are trying to manually move lymph through a one way system and in order to move that lymph you need to be moving it along the way your lymph system flows. I’m a massage therapist and I actually do manual lymph drainage (MLD) massage and if I was to go the wrong direction I could back up the lymph. Dry brushing isn’t as dramatic as MLD but if you want the lymph benefits you got to do it right. 😉
Cheers!
Thanks for sharing such a nice idea, article is pleasant, thats
why i have read it completely
I absolutely LOVE doing dry brushing. It has made such a difference in my skin! And I use a pumice stone on my feet….way better & cheaper than getting pedicures!
WOW, Flavs is a Trans-sexual ??
I would have thought that the Bio-Flavenoids would have cured that ?!?!?
It just keeps getting better 🙂
Clint I do not think she is kicking you when you are down exactly.. behave,. 🙂 callie
I love Dry Brushing I had not actually heard it was something done for detoxing until csc but boy does it make the skin healthy. I love the glow. And I am betting this is where all the hard food work pays off and the glow gets to show. Our weather here is so fickle that you tend to have three hot days and two frigidly cold ones and we all seem to get chapped on the cold days. Anyway I think this is a great article. It helps explain the process and also helps to get us all doing it regularly. Now I know I am late but I think Clint has lost his mind. haha..behave clint. haha.. anyway. hope all is going well. Love and have Missed you all. Callie
Hey Clint
I am way more afraid of YOU than poor lonely Flavs, who apparently is now a transexual! Pray for his mortal soul, he is troubled.
I did dry brushing this am, on the throne, eh em..
took five minutes to brush all over, then add some oil.
Not too shabby, feels good too.
love to you all
deb
PS remember to go lights out at 8pm tonight for one hour.. how about a candlelit bath after some good dry brushing, then a massage and some yoga and meditaion? just a thought:)
Flavs changed his profile. There is no longer Peyton Manning on the site, but now Alice Young, he even starrted a discussion…..we are on to you flavs! Kris, I’ll leave this one to you.
It’s ok Debbie…. I KNOW where you live…. ! ! 🙂
….and forwarded that info onto Flavs ….
Be afwaid…..be vaweee afwaid !!
Hey I want a turn.. kicking Clint!
Oh so incorrect are we…must be all the glowing energy we get from dry brushing.. btw did mine today and then soaked in a tub, then did sesame oil massage, Yowza, ready to do hair now!
love deb
PS Clint I kid cuz, well, you know:)
deb
FINE ! ! Whatever Sandra ! !
Kick a little kid when he’s down…
Whatever !
I started dry brushing a few weeks ago. I have the brush hanging on the back of the bathroom door so that it makes a nice ‘thud’ when I close the door to remind me.
I’m hoping to see some results on my scaly legs – ug!
Thanks!
Invisible Diane
DRY BRUSHING totally rocks my socks. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Nutiva coconut oil hint! It works so amazingly. This was my first time dry brushing (I used to loofah mit pad shown in the picture and also bought the same type but smaller for your face) and my skin felt super super soft as soon as I stepped in the shower!! I am a dry brushing convert…no doubt about it!!
Thank you for the recommendation!!
Hey Kris,
I just bought one loofah last night at the A&P, but love the idea of having one for each hand…
I have always had dry skin so I am certain that this will help.
And if it helps to get the “glow” then I’m all over it…
Thanks again…cowgirl!!! I’m wearing my cowboy boots today in honor of you and your posse–and just bought your book–it’s incredible.
Kris- Alert! Flavs is a member on cslife.. calls himself Peyton Manning.. go get him girl!!
deb
Dry brushing is the best tool I’ve found for waking up in the morning. Your whole body becomes invigorated! The coconut oil is like icing on the cake:) Its the closest I get to aromatherapy-so comforting and soothing. It helps me start the day on a calm note.
xo,
Sundari:)
I love my dry brush – picked it up at WF a couple of months ago. It really is amazing at de-scaling lizards but I agree it does start to hurt a bit and leaves my bod lovely shades of pink!
After my PET scan, I found myself trying to practically scrub the toxins off of me – but a nice bath in epson salts was very soothing. I also slather myself in coconut oil daily. I just scoop some into a ziplock and throw it in the shower/bath and its an awesome treat that reminds me of summer and the beach!
Thank you Kris – I’m gonna try the loofah too! Happy Friday!! xoxo
Girl, I love you! I simply and totally adore you. 🙂
I love brushing. It’s fun and actually, I just shaved my legs and my shins are screaming at me from all the bumps and ingrowns(which NEVER happened until now). So, some good dry brushing tomorrow it is. 🙂
xoxoxoxox,
melissa
Gonna rush right out and get me some loofah gloves, but first I have to smack Clint upside the head. When I read that you were in the emergency room, I gasped! Heart raced and everything, you huggy brat. 🙂
DEB- got my wheat grass today! YUM! I was fully expecting it to taste like pond scum and I was oh so pleasantly surprised. It’s super mild, like water with a hint of green tea. Maybe the effects aren’t as great as the au naturale, but this powdered stuff is a dream come true for me, especially while I’m traveling. Do you really drink it three times a day? I shall aim for that, but it seems ambitious. I will do as coach Terri says and visualize downing three big ol’ wheat grass drinks a day and hopefully, I will manifest prolific pooping. (These posts seem to be taking a turn for the TMI so I thought I’d join the party.)
Love to all and welcome back to us, Dee!
Sandra
Thanks for the dry brushing tips Kris! My daughters treated me to a “birthday spa day” at the Hotel Hershey last month (yes, everything smelled like chocolate) and my oldest had a dry brushing and a wrap. She loved it and bought me a brush from the spa that is really soft. Now I am stimulating, waking up and tickling away.
I personally like to dry brush to my exercise music; lately I’ve been playing lots of Wilson Pickett – think “Land of a Thousand Dances”