Just add water and rub into alather. / You’ll actually feel it working. / You’ll have better-looking skin in minutes! There are no miracles when it comes to skin care. But Aapri Apricot Facial Scrub comes close. Why? Because after just one use, you’ll have fresher, better-looking skin, no matter what type of skin you have.

From the UK's #1 Scrub brand, St. Ives captures the secrets of naturally beautiful and healthy-looking skin in this deep cleansing formula that gently exfoliates, removing dull, dead skin cells. Finely-crushed apricot seeds are the secret. The natural fiber of the apricot seed works in a unique way to help clean your skin like it’s never been cleaned. Don’t keep your youth under cover. Get a little tougher with Aapri. And keep bringing out that babyface of yours.Dermatologists disagree on how beneficial scrubs are generally, but St. Ives is intense even among scrubs, with chunks of walnut harder than your average ( water-polluting) plastic microbead. It’s time you got tough. With Aapri facial scrub. It’s brown. It’s rough. Its coarse granules of crushed apricot seeds are more concentrated, more abrasive than any other scrub. So it works harder than any other scrub to remove the dull dead skin layer that keeps your fresher, younger, baby-soft skin from seeing the light of day. But for many of the years in-between, I washed my face with St. Ives Apricot Scrub, which is an exfoliator made with granules of walnut shell powder. It is extremely rough. Perhaps too rough. We’ll find out: Kaylee Browning and Sarah Basile recently filed a class-action lawsuit against St. Ives’s maker, Unilever, alleging that the wash “leads to long-term skin damage” and “is not fit to be sold as a facial scrub.” So you may be hiding your best looking skin without knowing it. Fresh healthy skin doesn’t just happen. Elsewhere, you can find people claiming the pore strips made their pores larger, or irritated their skin. The subreddit r/SkincareAddiction holds particular vitriol for the St. Ives scrub, which some dermatologists say is so abrasive that it can cause small tears in the skin. The subreddit rejoiced in the announcement of Browning and Basile’s lawsuit, as Slate recently reported. It’s hard to find actual studies on the efficacy of specific products, but certainly St. Ives Apricot Scrub and its ilk perpetuate this idea that the best way to get the skin you want is to destroy the skin you have. They facilitate the worst impulses of the frustrated acne-sufferer declaring war on their skin.

What’s more, it’s simple. You just add water, rub into a lather, and wash your face the way you normally would. You’ll see that the secret ingredient in Aapri makes it so much more effective than soaps or ordinary cleansers.Hatred breeds violence, self-hatred no less so. If the thing that makes you hate yourself is on your surface, it makes sense to try to scrub your surface away. “It’s like using sandpaper on your face,” one dermatologist said of the St. Ives scrub, in an interview with New York magazine, and I can say from experience it feels that way, too. “If it hurts, it must be working”: my longtime approach to acne treatment. In several stories about the lawsuit, Unilever declined to comment on the case and gave the same statement: “We can say that for over 30 years, consumers have loved and trusted the St. Ives brand to refresh and revitalize their skin. We are proud to be America’s top facial scrub brand and stand by our dermatologist tested formula.” Aapri is made with finely-crushed seeds immersed in a creamy base that will actually get rid of that dead skin layer that can clog your pores and cause skin problems. Unless these skin cells are cleaned away, the skin takes on a dull appearance. It’s just a matter of washing your face regularly with Aapri Apricot Facial Scrub. And using good common sense. No matter what your age or skin type, there’s really nothing like knowing your skin is as fresh and healthy-looking as it can be. And there’s nothing like Aapri. This exfoliating scrub contains delicious apricots grown in various sunny destinations, including California