The Detox Dry Brushing Method is a quick and easy technique with several amazing health benefits. This simple routine invigorates all the major systems of the body including the lymph, circulatory, nervous, and digestive systems while also stimulating all the major organs. It is a form of gentle massage that encourages the skin to eliminate toxins by dramatically increasing blood flow to the surface. Detox dry brushing exfoliates dead skin cells while possibly reducing the appearance of cellulite by balancing fat distribution, and it has the additional benefit of toning and tightening the skin leaving it wonderfully soft to the touch. This amazing health and beauty routine has been practiced for years in Eastern Medicine and is used in world class spas, holistic healing centers, and, most recently, cancer treatment clinics all over the globe.
A Brief History of Dry Brushing
Dry brushing is a type of Ayurvedic medicine that has been around for centuries to keep the body healthy. Skin brushing has also been around in many cultures since ancient history, such as Hippocrates and the Greeks, the Japanese, and Native Americans. The Comanche tribe, for instance, were known to scrub their skin with sand they took from Texas river bottoms.
What Are Some More Benefits of Dry Brushing?
Like most spa treatments, body brushing utilizes the undeniable power of touch to invigorate your senses. It may also help relieve ingrown hair follicles. Brushing your skin also stimulates oil glands that are in the second layer of skin, bringing this oil to the skin’s surface. This oil helps to protect the skin and increases the skin’s health, suppleness and elasticity. Plus, dry brushing helps you become more mindful of the parts of your body that you may have been avoiding or are just plain unconscious of.
Often seen on spa menus as dry skin brushing or body brushing, dry brushing is common at the beginning of body treatments. The idea is to perform dry brushing prior to a massage, facial or full body wrap to slough away dead skin and other impurities and increase your blood flow so you can benefit more deeply from the treatment that follows. Your therapist will use a sterilized, firm brush with natural bristles (often made from plant fibers such as cactus) and move it briskly in circular and sweeping motions all over your body. The idea is to brush in the direction of your heart to boost circulation and encourage lymph flow.
The treatment requires a firm touch in order to receive the benefits; however, it should not be painful. Similar to a full body massage, you should feel free to advise your therapist if you prefer a gentler or firmer touch. Most therapists appreciate having the chance to adapt the treatment to your specific needs and preferences.
What treatments include Dry Brushing at Touch to Heal Spa?
- Guests can add a 30-min Dry Brushing treatment as an add-on to a massage or a facial treatment.
- Dry Brushing is included in these Spa Treatments:
- Autumn Spice
- Ayurveda Dosha Balancing Massage
- Full Body Detox and Destress
- Dry Brushing is included in these Spa Packages at Touch to Heal Spa:
- Revive Spa Package
- Rejuvenate Spa Package
- Gentlemen’s Reinvigorate Spa Package
Why Should You Care About Dry Brushing?
What is the largest organ in the body? What is one of the most important elimination organs in the body, playing a large role in daily detoxification? What organ receives a third of all the blood that is circulated in the body? When the blood is full of toxic materials, what organ will reflect this with problems? What organ is the last to receive nutrients in the body, yet the first to shows signs of imbalance or deficiency?
The answer for all of the above? The skin!
Considering the above, we must become intimately familiar with the knowledge of proper skin care. The skin, more than any other part of the body, reflects how you feel mentally, emotionally and physically. Body brushing is the one-stop-shop in the skin care department.
When Not to Dry Brush
Guests should not dry brush if they are undergoing any serious medical treatments, such as chemotherapy, or have any serious health condition, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease, unless they consult their doctor about it first. People with open or inflamed skin, including people with eczema and psoriasis, should avoid dry brushing over the inflamed area. Soft massage with a hydrating cream can be most beneficial for these skin types. You should also avoid dry brushing over an open wound which may introduce bacteria to the wound possibly causing infections.
Clients should not dry brush if they have shaved that day already, been in the sun, or recently had any kind of chemical exfoliation in the area. Also, using a brush that is too stiff or scrubbing too hard can cause skin to become scratched, resulting in micro-cuts in the skin. Skin should never feel irritated or look red and inflamed, this is an indicator that the treatment has been too aggressive. Guests should stop immediately if this is the case.
In Conclusion…
Dry brushing is an ancient practice with a myriad of incredible health benefits; when it is coupled with massage, it will leave you and your skin feeling relaxed, invigorated, and silky smooth. You can add dry brushing from head to toe to any massage treatments. Some of our Spa Packages and Spa Treatments include dry brushing as well.
Don’t hesitate to become part of the dry brushing phenomenon and Detox today!
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