You can also buy online from Lazada or Shopee. If you are into Korean products, I highly recommend buying from Althea Philippines.

Before I give a loss on the face scrubs that can give you glowing skin, let’s have a review on what facial scrubs do and why they are important in one’s skincare routine. Let’s begin.

What is a Face Scrub?

Face scrubs or exfoliators play an important role in one’s skincare routine. Aside from providing glowing skin, regular exfoliation helps brighten your skin and makes your skin look healthy and radiant. 

How face scrubs work is simple - it targets the built-up dirt in your pores. It goes deep in the skin and helps eliminate the oil and other impurities blocking the surface of the skin. Aside from minimizing blackheads, regular exfoliation will also make your skin glow. It promotes faster cell turnover to reveal newer and healthier skin. It minimizes pores and helps give you a brighter complexion.

Read next - How to Get Rid of Blackheads

Benefits of Using Face Scrub

Here are the different benefits of using face scrub:

• It improves skin tone and texture

• It helps unclogs pores

• It stimulates of new skin cells

• It helps in removing acne scars

• It promotes clearer complexion

How to Use Face Scrub or Exfoliate Your Face

First, cleanse your face with your usual face cleanser. It’s best to clean your face before you exfoliate. Read next: All About Double Cleansing for Pinays

Gently rub the face scrub on your face in circular motion. Try to apply some pressure to remove the dead skin. After 30 seconds, use warm water to rinse the face scrub off. 

Exfoliate just 2-3 times a week or when as needed to ensure that your face still remains well-hydrated. 

Make sure to apply serum afterward. 

5 Face Scrubs to Try for Glowing Skin

St. Ives Apricot Scrub

St. Ives is one of the original face scrubs available. It’s an icon in the area of face scrubs. I started using St. Ives back in college when there used to be a mini version available. Now, I only see the full size of the St. Ives Apricot Scrub being sold in the market. 

Anyway, the St. Ives Apricot Scrub is a deep exfoliator that’s made in 100% natural walnut shell powder. It works to give you soft, smooth, and positively glowing skin. 

Price: Php 233 for 6oz.

Garnier Light Complete Brightening Scrub

The Garnier Light Complete Brightening Scrub is a gentle, easy to rinse scrub with the power of 1000 microbeads and pure lemon extract. It is meant to extensively cleanse and clear dullness. THe product promises a visibly brighten skin tone in one wash.

Price: Php 155 for 100ml

Himalaya Gentle Exfoliating Daily Wash

The Himalaya Gentle Exfoliating Daily Wash is a soap-free, daily exfoliating face wash that gently cleanses and exfoliates dead skin cells. It is infused with apricot granules that stimulate fresh cell growth and prevent blackheads. 

Other key ingredients of the Himalaya Gentle Exfoliating Daily Wash are Neem and Lemon, two products that deeply cleanse and remove excess oil. Another present ingredient is Aloe Vera which soothes the skin fresh, rejuvenated, and glowing, day after day.

Price: Php 165 for 100ml

Fresh Jeju Aloe Vera Ice Facial Scrub

The Fresh Jeju Aloe Vera Ice Facial Scrub has walnut beads that help remove blackheads, whiteheads, and dead skin cells. It is also infused with 98% Aloe Vera extracts from Jeju Island and salicylic acid for preventing acne breakouts, dryness, and oily skin. The best part about this Fresh Jeju Aloe Vera Ice Facial Scrub is it leaves a cooling effect which soothes and relieves the skin. 

Price: Php 199 for 100ml

QuickFX Pimple Cleansing Face Scrub

The QuickFX Pimple Cleansing Face Scrub is a gentle exfoliating wash that contains finely ground scrub including apricot seed powder. It helps lift away dull, rough skin to reveal brighter and smoother skin from beneath. It helps remove dirt and impurities without causing dryness.

Here are the key ingredients - salicylic acid, niacinamide, glycolic acid, and aloe vera extract.

Price: Php 269 for 100ml

Here are the face scrubs I’ve used in the past:

Asian Secrets Lulur Indonesian Whitening Facial Scrub

Asian Secrets Lulur Indonesian Whitening Facial Scrub is infused with Lulur Beads and Natural Whitening Bengkoang Extract. Lulur has been part of Javanese Beauty Regimen and is intended for brides-to-be in order to beautify, smoothen and whiten skin before the big event.

What the product claims:

• Lulur beads gently and remove dead skin to smoothen and give it a radiant glow

• It also moisturizes and leaves skin with a light fragrant scent

• Frequent usage lightens the skin, making it fairer and lighter

You can read my full review of the product here.

Himalaya Herbals Clear Complexion Whitening Scrub

The Himalaya Herbals Clear Complexion Whitening Face Scrub claims to be an enhancing scrub with mild exfoliants to bring out your natural fairness and reveals glowing skin. Its main ingredients include Licorice and White Dammer which helps regulate melanin synthesis and apricot granules which gently scrub away dead skin cells, blackheads and deeply embedded impurities.

You can read my full review of the product here.

Skinfood Black Sugar Exfoliating Wash-Off Face Mask

I got the Skinfood Black Sugar Exfoliating Wash-Off Face Mask  when I went to South Korea last May 2018 and it is worth every penny! This cult classic mask featuring organic Black Sugar granules that exfoliate away dead skin cells. It also includes Macadamia Seed Oil & Shea Butter which nourish and moisturize skin for a smooth, clean complexion. It’s one of the best scrubs in this list made of sugar grains. It leaves your skin soft and supple. 

Related read: My 5 Step Pamper Night Skincare Routine

St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Scrub

The Blackhead Clearing Green Tea Scrub has salicylic acid and 100% natural walnut shell powder and bamboo powder packs. This product unclogs pores and calms redness for glowing and bump-free skin. It’s a much more moderate exfoliator than the St. Ives Apricot Scrub. 

Nivea Extra White Repair Pore Minimiser Scrub

The Nivea Extra White Repair Pore Minimiser Scrub gently exfoliates skin with 10x better whitening effect. It has non-abrasive micro-beads to remove impurities and prevent dullness and large pores. It gives whiter complexion, minimizes the appearance of pores and revives the skin exposed to dullness due to constant makeup application. It also leaves your skin squeaky clean after use.

Overall

I hope this post helps you find the right face scrubs for your skincare routine.