Today I tested the coffee grounds body scrub. Search it on Pinterest, and you will find numerous links to websites offering uses for coffee grounds. I thought this was a good place to start, since we drink a LOT of coffee in this house.
Here is the link to one of the pages I used for referencing how to use coffee grounds. Of course I was most interested in getting rid of cellulite!
Here's how it went down. I gathered a plastic container and put in some coffee grounds, a little salt, and some olive oil. I proceeded to the shower. Then I began to slather the mixture on my "problem areas", which is code for "everywhere". Let me just say, it was a gross looking mess in the shower. It dripped everywhere, and was on the shower curtain, and the walls, and it was running in puddles into the drain, and it looked a little like a horror scene. But I continued to scrub.
Once I was done, I used the handheld shower head to rinse everything off, and down the drain. However, even though I have a commercial coffee grinder, there are still a few beans that don't grind fine enough to go down the drain, so I had to fish those out. This could be a problem if you have drains that are sensitive to debris.
I'll let you know, I still have cellulite. Boo. But I know it doesn't go away from any topical treatment, so I didn't expect anything. I feel exfoliated and moisturized, as you would with any moisturizing exfoliating body wash or loofah.
Is it worth the mess? Maybe, if you're thrifty and don't like throwing stuff away. For me personally? I'd rather buy a body wash so my shower doesn't look like it had diarrhea thrown in it.
Does it work? For exfoliation and moisturizing, yes. To get rid of cellulite, no.
Would I recommend it? Not as a first resource, but if someone was adventurous, sure.
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