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You don't need to spend lots of money on expensive body scrubs to make your skin feel super soft - I just use white sugar! (I'm assuming brown/raw sugar would be too harsh). Twice a week I bring half a cup of plain old white sugar into the shower with me and when I squirt my body wash onto my puff (or hand), I add some of the sugar too and rub it onto my skin in circular motions. My skin always feels SO smooth and fresh afterwards and then I just use a body moisturiser all over to replace any lost moisture or dryness. I didn't use to think exfoliating made much difference but since I've been using the sugar to scrub my skin, I've noticed a HUGE difference - I don't get dry patches anymore and my skin literally glows.

Just thought I would share that tip with you all

Wow, wonder if you could used caster sugar for your face, I bought an expensive scrub, I imagine sugar would be way safer as an abrader.

Hey that sounds pretty good masquerade I mite try that at home Thanks

Sounds good !. Castor sugar may be too fine to be effective though Delta. It would dissolve and disapear perhaps before it had time to do any exfoliating perhaps ? I have also heard that if you mix salt with liquid hand soap, and give them a good rub all over before rinsing, that they will come up lovely and soft and looking good too. Especially good if you are a gardener who forgets to put on her gloves, or just doesn't like wearing them . I am one of those. In that case, it also helps to scratch into a bar of soap so that under your nails are filled with soap before you go outside and start digging around. Makes it so much easier to clean your nails up when you have finished working. a cake of sunlight light soap in the laundry does it for me.
Yes, it is very true that we can spend far to much on cosmetics and cleaners etc as there are many simple cheaper things which work brilliantly well.

One teaspoon of sugar and a few drops of baby oil rubbed into the hands makes then super-silky for days. Repeat maybe one or twice a week.

Good budget tips here Ladies.

I don't like the feel of soap under my nails for gardening,..much prefer gloves for myself.

Exfoliating the skin does make it softer, & prepared for moisturising though; I try do do a face mask once a week when I remember!

Brown sugar is ideal for faces as it is of a finer grain.

The scrub I made is better that what you find in the store.

WTF listenwong the subject of this thread, is all about treatments for making our skin super soft. Are you suggesting that in order to make our skin super soft, we rub them with cheap designer shoes, and pat it dry with the lace on the sleeves of our wedding dresses .. or are you really readingwong ?
Getting back to the topic intended .
Being fair skinned I find that as I get older I am becoming quite prone to those brownish skin spots which so far show up mainly on the backs of my hands. While I also have plenty of freckles there, which have never really worried me in the past , I do not like seeing these uglier aging 'splodges'. Does any one know of a way of slowing them down, or a natural remedy to fade them please?

Please, please don't anyone reply telling me where to buy some cheap designer gardenning gloves