Cover your face with a coffee-cake treatment? This is the trendy scrub of the moment. For proof, the #coffeescrub has been used over 240,000 times on Instagram . You are told all about this new trend of natural cosmetics.

What is the coffee scrub ?

The coffee scrub is, as the name suggests, a coffee scrub. In these care products, coffee grounds are generally associated with other natural cosmetics such as coconut oil and jojoba oil and would have anti - cellulite properties. It can also be used for the face but it is primarily made for the body.

What is the coffee scrub?

Coffee our new beauty ally? The coffee has moisturizing, exfoliating, firming properties, it helps to fight cellulite and stretch marks. Benefits of which we profit very little by consuming coffee, and that unfortunately is not found in the coffee scrub. Indeed, caffeine has great difficulty to break the skin barrier and go to attack adipocytes (fat cells). As in addition we quickly rinse the scrub, so to say that it is not thanks to this product that we will come to the end of our capitons. However, coffee is present in the form of crushed grains and / or marc in the care. So you can take advantage of the coffee scrub treatments for their exfoliating and exfoliating properties . That's not bad.

Coffee Scrub: a DIY scrub

What if we made our own coffee scrub using its coffee grounds? A good way to recycle and make a homemade cosmetic ... and therefore cheap.

On the Internet, video tutorials to make his own coffee scrub abound. And the good news is that this mixture is very easy to make: simply mix coffee grounds with olive oil or even shower gel to create yourself its coffee scrub! Fastoche.

If you do not drink coffee or do not want to make your own scrub, you can also buy it. One finds the coffee scrub of the brand Body Boom, exclusive to Monoprix to 14.99 €.