Your New Beauty Routine: Brush Before You Hit the Water

Cari Vaughn

The $3 drugstore loofah is (already) proving to be this year’s hot beauty tool. Grab yours from inside the tub and come tomorrow morning jump on the latest craze: dry brush before you hit the water--while you are naked and dry.

An age old remedy to detoxify the skin--dry brushing stimulates the lymphatic system, strengthens the immune system, breaks down unwelcome toxins, brushes away emotional issues, and eliminates clogged pores so skin can properly absorb nutrients. Surface bonuses: tones muscles and rids cellulite. How much more can one ask from such an easy and cheap beauty tool?

Start with circular motions on your feet, combing legs, arms and neck, ending with counter clockwise strokes on your abdomen. It’s worth taking the time: the five extra minutes will have dramatic effects on your daily approach and on your long term appearance. After you’ve bathed away your toxins, dry off and replenish with an all-natural oil. Right now I’m loving the LaLlicious Sugar Kiss body oil, $24, laden in almond, vitamin-e and macadamia nut oils.

HybridMom.com's style editor, Cari Vaughn, reminds her girlfriends everyday, “the key to looking and feeling good is exuding self-confidence--not the latest $100 jeans. Looking good and feeling clean from the inside out stems from envisioning your ideal life and creating it.” Though with a crazy household--a high-energy photographer husband and three phenomenal boys (ages 13, 11, and 2 ), Cari does admit "a good therapist, the right concealer (Dermablend) and a semi-consistent eyebrow arch does help in the never ending process of keeping it all together.” Read more at thehipmom.com.