Sea+Tea Body Scrub

Yes, this is the one in the line that's built for it. The pumice is volcanic rock ground fine enough to feel like soft sand on damp skin, and the blueberry seeds and cane sugar are calibrated to match. For your face, use less than you think, work in gentle circles, and avoid the eye area. Many people keep it by the bathroom sink for a quick facial refresh and use it in the shower for the body too. Rinse thoroughly with warm water and follow with your usual face care.

Herbal and coastal, not floral and not sweet. The essential oil blend, developed with the spa director at Cliff House Maine, is yarrow, lavender, bergamot, and rosemary. Together they read green and clean, like a garden near the water rather than a perfume counter. The bergamot keeps it bright, the rosemary grounds it, the lavender softens the edges. The scent carries through rinsing and stays faintly on skin afterward.

Yes. Sea+Tea is the only fully plant-derived scrub in the line. There are no honey crystals, no beeswax, no animal-derived ingredients of any kind. The exfoliants are cane sugar, blueberry seeds, and fine-ground pumice. The base is coconut oil, sunflower oil, and shea butter with sea clay and chlorella powder. Even the fragrance is essential oils rather than synthetic. If you avoid honey and beeswax in your skincare, this is the one from the line built for you.

They're not there for color. Sea clay is harvested from ocean deposits and brings minerals along with a mild draw, the kind that helps lift surface buildup as you scrub. Chlorella is a freshwater algae, ground into a fine powder, that adds its own minerals plus the slight green tint you see in the jar. Neither ingredient is doing heavy treatment work, but together they push the formula past pure exfoliant into something that leaves skin feeling cleaner than sugar alone would.

Coarser, in a deliberate way. The Sea+Tea scrub layers sugar crystals with blueberry seeds, fine-ground pumice, chlorella powder, kaolin clay, and sea clay, so it keeps exfoliating after the sugar dissolves. It is the most ingredient-dense scrub in our lineup, denser than the sugar-only formulas in our other duos but not as coarse as our walnut-shell scrubs. It works well on rough heels, knees, and elbows. Best two or three times a week rather than daily.

Two or three times a week is the sweet spot for most people. Skin needs time to rebuild between exfoliations, so daily use can leave you feeling raw rather than smooth. If you're working on a specific rough patch, you can spot-treat it more often, just keep the rest of your routine on the gentler schedule. People with sensitive skin often do better at once a week. The goal is skin that feels softer afterward, not tight or stripped.

Sugar dissolves as you work it into damp skin, so the texture eases off the harder you press. That makes it gentler than salt for most body areas and especially for anyone with sensitive skin. Salt scrubs stay coarse the whole time and can sting if you've nicked yourself shaving. Our scrubs are sugar-based for that reason. Cane sugar exfoliates, then rinses cleanly without the stripped feeling some salt formulas leave behind.

Before, every time. A scrub lifts dead skin and softens the hair, which means the razor glides instead of dragging, and you get a closer shave with fewer bumps afterward. Scrubbing post-shave on freshly bare skin is asking for irritation, especially if you nicked yourself anywhere. The sequence is scrub, rinse, shave, rinse again. Then follow with a body butter or oil while skin is still damp.

About six months once the seal is broken. The oils stay stable longer than that in theory, but the scent and texture are best in the first half-year, and you'll feel the difference. Store the jar away from direct sunlight and out of the steamy splash zone in your shower; a shelf or caddy works better than the tub edge. If you notice the smell going off or the oils separating in a way that won't stir back together, it's time for a new one.