Many years ago in Japan, women would clean their wood floors with rice bran in a bucket with warm water. Rice bran is gritty and slightly oily and is perfect for cleaning wood. After awhile, the women noticed how nice and smooth their hands looked and figured it was because of the rice bran. They started using it on their skin and hair and saw remarkable improvements, soon it caught on in Japan and women started incorporating rice bran into their beauty regimes.
After reading about this I found some rice bran online, it is very inexpensive, about $3 or $4 for a nice sized bag. I then sewed together a few simple muslin pouches and filled one up about halfway with rice bran, added a drop or two of essential oil (rice bran has a very "earthy" smell) and use it in the shower on my skin. Let me tell you, this stuff is AMAZING! After a couple weeks of using this I noticed my skin looking younger and softer. Did I say it was amazing?
Another thing I discovered was how to de-tox the skin with sake (rice wine). I bought a big bottle of the cheapest sake I could find and emptied the whole thing into a very hot bath. I threw the muslin bag of rice bran in it and soaked. The rice bran gave a milky appearance to the bathwater. I used the muslin bag to clean and I even dunked my hair into the water. By the time I was done with the bath, the water was brown with toxins pulled from my skin, it was gross! Oh, I didn't mention that I was perfectly clean when I got into the bath, I showered first, this is how the Japanese women did it. When you are clean and get into the bath, you can see all the toxins you leave behind in the water. When I got out of the bath, my skin felt so soft and smooth, I literally couldn't believe it. After about 3-5 uses of the bag you are going to want to toss it. It gets kinda smelly. Good thing these materials are so cheap! :) You gotta try this!
I love this little beauty secret, I have been doing this for years and it really works, I highly recommend it!
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