face peels? What is a good cheap peel facial for exfoiliating?
Top $ $ $ products are not always the best. When it comes to issues like this ... Most are the same! As w / shampoo, makeup, etc. People "think" If they pay more, they will get a better product. I use St. Ives Apricot Scrub, every day. 12 oz for $ 2.99! Therefore, no reason for a real skin. Stay away from any product containing loofah!
Loofah sponges as reservoirs and vehicles in the transmission of potentially pathogenic bacterial species on human skin.
Oeser Bottone EJ, Perez AA 2nd and JL
Clinical Microbiology Laboratories, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York 10029.
ABSTRACT
Luffa sponges are natural products used as exfoliative beauty aids. As a result of screening a case of folliculitis due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa contaminated loofah sponge, we assessed the role of loofah sponge to support the growth of a wide variety of bacterial species. Our data show increased growth of sterile loofah fragments for many gram-negative bacteria (Pseudomonas, Xanthomonas, and Klebsiella) and Gram-positive (Enterococcus and group B Streptococcus) species of human origin and the environment. In addition, new hydrated loofahs used the object to a change in the bacterial flora of scattered colonies of Bacillus spp. and Staphylococcus epidermidis, a flora predominant Gram-negative bacteria. The potential for growth promotion loofahs (exfoliative and others) can be further augmented by desquamated epithelial cells entrapped in the fibrous matrix loofah. Therefore, as loofahs (exfoliative and others) can serve as a reservoir and a vehicle for the transmission of potentially pathogenic to human skin, we recommend their decontamination with hypochlorite (10%) bleach at regular intervals.
I know a very good exfoiliating / scurb is Repechage Honey Almond scrub, it has no glowing skin clean. You can get a spa .... it is cheap and it last very long.
Posted on March 15, 2010.