coffeescrub | Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning

This picture below of Renee on the left was taken sometime in 2019 and the one on the right was on Dec 31st, ’23. You can see a brown mark that had formed on my cheek in the picture taken in 2019. I put it down to early aging due to the stress of raising teenagers on my own while working from home. This first picture was taken after they had left home when there was more time to focus on remedies to explore ways to remove this sign of early aging. I was interested in Sea Buckthorn and had been growing a couple of my own. One is pictured below. It ultimately was the oil that got rid of the last signs of it, which is shown in the later picture. Before investigating Sea Buckthorn infusions I had made many others using oil olive as a carrier and plants I grew in the yard, or gathered in the few block surrounding my home. A memory I have is of a coaching student of mine who had a large brown mark on their face and who suggested getting mine zapped with a laser of some sort. I had no interest as I knew the remedies I had been using would benefit all my facial and neck soft tissue. It wouldn’t be isolated to one spot which ultimately didn’t target the overall skin areas.

This past year I began exploring with coffee grounds as an exfoliator. I would infuse the grounds with a Canadian oil from a flower grown in Ontario called Camelina. This created possibly the most luxurious feeling I have ever had after using it. I use it to exfoliate my whole body.

I came across the combination of coffee grounds with Dead Sea minerals and Sea buckthorn oil, and knew I would like to have it on hand for those times when I couldn’t puth fresh ingredients together myself. I also wanted to experience the combination of ingredients. I found a higher level of salt, lesser amount of coffee grounds and good amount of oil in the combination. I will continue using this product combination on my face and neck, however will mix up my own recipe for the rest of my body. I have gotten used to a coarse ground of coffee and salt mineral that I quite enjoy. However I do recommend this product combination highly.

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