Dry Brushing to Remove Toxins

Dry Brushing is your daily GOLDEN opportunity to remove toxins.

Help your lymph system to clean itself of the toxins that collect in the lymph glands. You can use a simple technique to improve the surface circulation on the skin and keep the pores of the skin open, encouraging your body's discharge of toxic wastes, plus helping your skin to look and feel healthier and more resilient!

Why dry brush the largest organ of the body, "YOUR SKIN?"

Dry brushing provides the following benefits:

  • tightens skin
  • improves digestion
  • removes cellulite
  • stimulates circulation
  • increases cell renewal
  • cleans the lymphatic system
  • removes dead skin layers
  • strengthens immune system
  • stimulates the glands
  • helps all of the body systems to perform at peak efficiency

According to "Guarding the Three Treasures" by  Daniel Ried,  "One of the best ways to cleanse the entire lymphatic system is by brushing the surface of the body with a soft dry brush made of natural vegetable bristles."

The traditional Chinese version of this method uses the loofah, but natural-bristle brushes have proven to be far more effective. The brush should have a long handle, soft natural bristles, and always be kept dry.  Search for the TAMPICO SKIN BRUSH.  It is a great all natural bristle brush made from tampico fiber, the unbleached stem of the agave plant and has a long handle for the harder to reach areas.

Dry skin brushing stimulates the lymph canals to drain toxic mucoid matter into the colon, thereby purifying the entire lymphatic system.  This enables the lymph to perform its house-cleaning duties by keeping the blood and other vital tissues detoxified.

Most people today have chronically toxic lymph fluids and swollen lymph nodes, a condition which promotes toxicity throughout the system by robbing the lymph of its power to clean the blood and cellular fluids.  It is important to stimulate the lymph glands daily to assist your body in the elimination of toxins.

In addition, dry brushing is highly stimulating to the skins surface.  It increases the circulation of blood and leaves you feeling invigorated.

Dry brushing needs to be done once every day, preferably first thing in the morning.  It is quick and easy to do and takes only a couple of minutes.  Do dry brushing before you step into the shower.  Make it a habit just like brushing your teeth.  If you're feeling sluggish, toxic, or ill, you may want to do it twice a day.

The body should be dry and naked, and the brush should be swept 2-5 times in the same direction, across every surface of the body.  When doing your face, be extra gentle.

How To Dry Brush: 

1.  Buy a natural (not synthetic) bristle brush, since it does not scratch the surface of the skin.
2. Buy a brush with a long handle that slides on and off, so that you're able to get to the areas of your body that are not so easy to reach.
3.  Skin brush before showering or bathing, at least once a day, and twice if you feel it necessary.
4.  Do not wet the skin since it will not have the same effect.  Dry brushing wet skin stretches the skin.
5.  Always skin brush towards the colon and heart depending on what area of the body you are brushing.
6.  Do gentle, circular counter-clockwise strokes on the abdomen and buttocks and follow with long strokes. 
7.  Do lighter strokes over and around breasts, but do not brush the nipples.
8.  Brush each part of the body 2-5 strokes about 8-10 inches in length each.  Once your skin gets used to it, you will be able to brush several times vigorously. Your skin will begin to crave it if you are consistent for a couple of weeks.
9.  Brush the soles of the feet first, because the nerve endings there affect the whole body.  Next brush the ankles, calves, and thighs (front, sides, and back).  Brush across your stomach and buttocks using gentle, circular counter-clockwise strokes followed by long strokes. Then brush your hands, tops and palms, to the wrists.  Brush your forearms, upper arms (front, side and back), and when you get to your shoulders, brush across the shoulders, then up on the neck.  Brush lightly across the top of your chest.  Brush under your armpit, and on the side of your body, brushing towards your heart.  This will really stimulate the lymph nodes to expel toxins.  Finish by brushing the middle of your back towards your colon.  Make sure to completely brush your whole body.
10.  Take a warm bath or shower and follow with a cool rinse.
11.  Wash your brush at least once a month in water and let it air dry.

 

Do not scrub, massage, or rotate the brush using force on the body; just sweep it across the skin in long smooth strokes in the direction of the colon or heart.  When brushing the abdomen and buttocks, do gentle, circular counter-clockwise strokes and follow with long strokes towards the heart (abdomen) and colon (buttocks).

For a thorough lymphatic cleansing, perform skin brushing daily for about three months.  Thereafter, two to three times a week is sufficient to keep your lymph quite cleansed.

The skin is the largest organ in the body, and is responsible for one-fourth of the body's detoxification each day, also making it, one of the most important elimination organs! The skin is also known as the "3rd" kidney and the lungs are known as the "2nd" kidneys. Toxicity can gather beneath the skin's surface from using personal products such as body soaps, skin creams and anti-perspirants.  Clean out your cabinets and get rid of toxic personal care products.  Get the book, "Beauty To Die For", by Judi Vance.  Become a label detective with your personal products so you will spot immediately when a manufacturer is using potentially harmful and cancer causing ingredients in a product line.  Another good book to get is, "The Safe Shopper's Bible–A Consumer's Guide To Nontoxic Household Products, Cosmetics, and Food", by David Steinman and Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.