Brush your way to softer skin and detox!

Dry brushing! 
Not your hair or your teeth, but your skin! Your skin is the largest organ of the body and is responsible excreting 1/3 of your body’s toxins. While we are all on this journey for better health, our choices being healthier ones, take the burden off the liver that is responsible for cleaning up toxic waste in the body.

We want to be sure that toxic waste can efficiently be removed, which is one of the reasons for making sure we are drinking enough water.
Dry brushing can help to open up the pores on the skin which will help facilitate the absorption of nutrients and the excretion of waste (think sweating).
Another way your body eliminates toxins from the body is through the lymph. The lymph system does not have a pump like the circulatory system does, the heart. The lymph system relies on the lymph vessels, body movement and the squishing of the organs to move the lymph and toxins. It can also be stimulated through dry brushing! Certainly dry brushing will not have the same effectiveness as moving your body, but every little bit helps, and it has even more benefits! 
Exfoliation! This is something that you will notice in a relatively short amount of time. The bristles will help to exfoliate dead, dry skin leaving silky-smooth skin all year round!
Some people have also reported a reduction in cellulite! Cellulite is trapped toxic material in fat cells. While there are no scientific studies that prove dry brushing will release these toxins for your body to eliminate naturally, if there is a chance, I’ll try it!
I have personally been dry brushing for a year now and I definitely notice a difference in the softness of my skin. I do this as part of my morning routine and I love feeling my skin wake-up!  
Choose a brush with natural bristles. I recommend this brush because it is inexpensive and has a removable handle.
Start at your extremities, using long strokes, brush towards your heart. So fingertips to elbows, elbows to armpits, armpits and shoulders over the chest towards the heart. Toes to knees, knees to groin and buttocks, groin over the stomach and under the chest towards the heart. When you are brushing the stomach area, brush in a circular clockwise motion. This follows the flow of the digestive track and can help support digestion. Here is a video that demonstrates this method as well as a more intensive method that follows the lymph vessels.