Even my newbie soap has gotta be better than this thing!!!

[welder]

As stated in this threads' title, even my newbie soap has gotta be better than cleaning with this thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil

 

[Tabitha]

Thanks for that bit of trivia. Interesting!

 

[carebear]

perhaps, but not necessarily.

for example, I - and many other women - cleanse my face with olive oil only. no soaps or detergents. then I wipe it off, tho not with an edge I may just try that as cloths are sometimes too abrasive for me..

many peoples, including Native Americans, bathed this way - it works.

the oil is a solvent and it is then removed by sliding an edge across it to scrape it from the skin. it will also likely lift dead skin cells off along with the oils and dirt.

 

[Deda]

Interesting link. I've never knew there was such a thing.

Oils are a wonderful way to clean your skin, I use a blend of Castor and Sunflower on my face. I'm a fanatic about the OCM.

This may be TMI - but about once a month I use the edge of a CLEAN credit card type plastic thing to gently scrape along my jaw line, chin, forehead and around my nose. I do it before I wipe the oils off. I swear, it works great at removing the little tiny pore-y dots. No irritation as long as I'm extremely gentle.

 

[welder]

You guys ever trid using a plastic scubber pad for this?

My wife has this wad of fine filament/fine mesh plastic screen type material that she bought with a commercial body soap. It's gentle & effective. Getting caught using it wouldn't make her look odd.

Gotta be easier/safer than blades etc.

I'm not mocking you, I'm just saying that we've gotten past strigil blades etc.

Easier/safer methods exist & can be found at you local WalMart or drug store.

 

[Deda]

You guys ever trid using a plastic scubber pad for this?

My wife has this wad of fine filament/fine mesh plastic screen type material that she bought with a commercial body soap. It's gentle & effective. Getting caught using it wouldn't make her look odd.

Gotta be easier/safer than blades etc.

I'm not mocking you, I'm just saying that we've gotten past strigil blades etc.

Easier/safer methods exist & can be found at you local WalMart or drug store.

The idea is to not irritate. I, for one, would never use a plastic scrubber on my face! Ouch!

I certainly can't know for sure, but it's likely that your wife's 'commercial body soap' is actually detergent. So effective, maybe, but gentle - not in my book.

Should I be interrupted by someone barging into my powder room while I was washing my face I would hope that they weren't thinking that I 'looked odd', I would hope that they were thinking they themselves were a clod.

 

[Chay]

I'm not mocking you, I'm just saying that we've gotten past strigil blades etc.

While the term strigil blades are out of date the method certainly is not. Using a plastic scrubber pad is a method of strigil cleansing. It's like comparing how we file our nails. The ancients used a rock to file their nails, today we use a stick with small rocks glued to it called an emery board. Things are not so different today.

 

[carebear]

hee hee I have not thrown out an old credit card in years - I use them to scrape my counters and pans! next - I'll be trying it on my face

(don't think I can tolerate the pouff or scrubby pads - a bit too abrasive for me, too hard to control)

 

[ChrissyB]

There is an implement called MySkn (correct spelling)
Basically you get two in a pack, a larger one for the body and a smaller one for the face, it fits in your hand and has a stainless steel surgical edge, that you scrape against your skin and apparently it exfoliates, removes dead skin, blackheads, and ingrown hairs. I saw it on an infomercial and it actually looks really good, same concept. But it is recommended for people with sensitive skin, because no products or solutions are needed. However they do recomment that you use it in the shower when the pores are warmer and have opened up a bit. I will see if I can find a link for it.

 

[mlj]

I think I will stay with my own scrub of;
Plain Yogurt
Oatmeal
Salt
Have used it for almost 50 years and I am 63 now and my skin looks pretty good if you all don't mind my saying so.

Mary Lou

 

[mandolyn]

Interesting link. I've never knew there was such a thing.

Oils are a wonderful way to clean your skin, I use a blend of Castor and Sunflower on my face. I'm a fanatic about the OCM.

Me too Deda. My face is never too dry or too oily now that I'm using the OCM. Once every week or sometimes every 2 weeks, I use a very gentle scrub made with adzuki bean powder, ginseng powder & fine rice powder. It's sooooooo gentle & soothing.

I made the mistake of using a sugar scrub on my face once!! Ouch!! It was just like having a wind burn, & it took weeks for my skin to recover!!

I love doing the OCM. That's my time to feel like I'm really pampering myself. I add just a drop of lavender eo to my oils & enjoy breathing in the calming scent as the cloth is cooling on my face.

I just ordered a distiller so I can start making my own hydrosols. I think adding a lavender or rose hydrosol spritz to my OCM routine will be heavenly!!

 

[carebear]

Mandolyn where do you get the scrub? Or do you make (and sell?) it. I'm looking for a very gentle exfoliating scrub for occasional use myself!

My OCM is castor and olive but is a bit greasy so I'll try sunflower or safflower next in pace of the olive.

 

[ChrissyB]

Thankyou Deda for posting that link about oil cleansing. I am going to give this a try. I have the skin that the author of that article is talking about!!
I think she might be onto something!!

 

[welder]

I'm not mocking you, I'm just saying that we've gotten past strigil blades etc.

While the term strigil blades are out of date the method certainly is not. Using a plastic scrubber pad is a method of strigil cleansing. It's like comparing how we file our nails. The ancients used a rock to file their nails, today we use a stick with small rocks glued to it called an emery board. Things are not so different today.

That's somewhat true, but emery boards work better than rocks.

If they didn't nobody would buy them, rocks are free.

We have advanced in most areas of life, although we still have some old problems, and new problems have come up that weren't a factor in the past.

For example, racism and sexism still plague humanity as they have for ages, and now pollution has been added to those.

Things are vastly different, thanks to soap & clean water being easilly available to common people.

We've been taught for decades that disease innoculations have eradicated disease, but soap & water along with proper waste management (household sewage plumbing) has been the real driving force behind countering disease, not injections.

The timelines illustrating the decline of major diseases link sanitation & hygiene to the decline, not innoculation.

Read the info on this link for details:

http://www.heilkunst.com/drugs10.html

Full details on this matter can be found here:

http://www.909shot.com/articles/gnscompe.htm

Every parent should know the risks BEFORE taking their kids for shots.

 

[Deda]

Carebear - Counters and Pans! I never thought of that. You just saved me so much money! I'm thinking they would work great on glass cooktops, too.

Mandolyn - Your scrub sounds divine. If you are selling it can you post a link? A distiller would be great, I'm still using the brick and the bain marie method - suppose that's why I don't do it very often.

ChrissyB - You are going to love it! I haven't used soap on my face in about 6 months. I can't believe the difference. My skin is soft and smooth and those tiny red lines? Gone.

Mary Lou - I adore yogurt in a mask, I got some from Tabitha, it's the best mask I've ever used.

 

[mandolyn]

Mandolyn where do you get the scrub? Or do you make (and sell?) it. I'm looking for a very gentle exfoliating scrub for occasional use myself!

My OCM is castor and olive but is a bit greasy so I'll try sunflower or safflower next in pace of the olive.

It's a recipe from The Natural Beauty Workshop. Here's the link:
http://tinyurl.com/8u9m3o

Enjoy!