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Ginger Up Your Beauty Routine

Written by Bryce

Ginger has been known to improve circulation and stimulate cell turnover– here are a few of our fave ways to add it to your beauty routine!

Did you know that ginger has been used to treat a variety of health issues and enhance beauty for thousands of years? Forget your grandmother’s beauty wisdom- adding ginger to your beauty routine borders on Dinosaur-era wisdom. This nifty little root reduces inflammation, helps speed healing, clears acne, and even lightens scars. Check out a few of our fave products packed with gingery goodness:

1. Get clean. Origins makes a fab Ginger Hand Cleanser that’ll leave your skin and your senses totally satisfied. The cleanser is coconut-based, so you won’t get too dry from frequent use. Available here.

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2. A good ginger tea. There are a lot of ginger-infused teas out there, but quality is key. Try this one to soothe stomach aches, cramps, and nausea or even for the purpose of enhancing your circulation. Better circulation leads to clearer skin, shinier hair, and just about everything that makes for joyous days. Available here.

3. Spicy, sweet body butter. Tree Hut’s Shea Body Butter in ginger will leave your body silky soft, smooth, and supple and buzzing with the spicy, sweet ginger scent. And no parabems, hooray! Available here.

4. You don’t have to be a ginger to appreciate some good root in your roots. Did you know Suave makes an Awapuhi, Ginger and Honeysuckle line that’ll leave you pretty shocked it’s only $3.99 a bottle? It’s made to compete with the Pureology collection, and you’ll be excited to know the Suave formula boasts real ginger, no dyes or parabens, and a ton of celeb hairstylist fans. Available for $3.99, .

About the author

Bryce

Bryce Gruber is a New York mom to five growing kids, wife to one great husband and professional shopping editor. You've seen her work in Reader's Digest, Taste of Home, Family Handyman, MSN, Today's Parent, Fashion Magazine, Chatelaine, NBC and so many other beloved brands.