Body Scrubs & Exfoliants

If you've ever left the shower feeling like you ought to get right back in again, you might consider something more than a body wash or a simple soap. What you're really needing is a body scrub or exfoliant to remove dead skin cells and guarantee that you're as clean as you can be. From deep-cleansing mud baths to gentle oatmeal soaps, the choices are many, but the prices throughout this selection tend to be very easy on your budget.

There's a convenience factor with a bar of soap that's hard to beat, but the ingredients make all the difference, and One with Nature has an original line of triple-milled Dead Sea salt mineral soaps with shea butter for the gentlest exfoliation available in natural scents like lemon verbena, almond and rose. Earth Therapeutics carries an equally creative set with their Loofah Exfoliating Soaps, containing loofah fibers, and a variety of moisturizers to avoid overstimulating your pores.

A common concern is maintaining softness on the bottoms of your feet, so an effective foot scrub is very important. Queen Helene Footherapy scrubs use micro-granules from ground walnuts to remove rough, dry skin, and the invigorating scents, like apricot or cranberry mint, energize your feet for hours at a time.

A well-made shower gel can also do the trick, such as AXE's Snake Peel Shower Scrub, which proves that there's great choices for men who want to feel really clean without the feminine fragrances they might expect from a specialty soap. For a little extra moisture, both men and women will find that the Softsoap Body Butter Scrubs are perfect, barely scented options with jojoba butter. We also recommend Yardley of London's shower scrubs in a variety of gentle scents and strengths from Oatmeal Almond to Mango Pomegranate, and they use different formulas to exfoliate, like sugar crystals or papaya enzymes, so you'd got a wide range of quality scrubs to choose from.

However, there's more than one way to exfoliate your skin and come away from your bath or shower feeling refreshed and clean -- from scrunched gauze sponges and loofah pads to exfoliating gloves and foot buffers. We're partial to the Pedi-Scrub buffer which cleanses, exfoliates, massages and moisturizes with olive oil and tea tree extract. And, as long as you choose gentle options, you can even combine the two methods to ensure that your freshly scrubbed, skin stays young and healthy and becomes softer with every bath or shower.