Best Face Scrub For Women (2026 Updated)

I love this exfoliating cleaner. I use it once every couple weeks to get that really deep cleaning on my face. This gives me that deep cleaning without being too harsh. There’d nothing in it to be abrasive enough to cause them little cuts and cause redness on the face.

It’s really perfect for gentle exfoliation. Elf really just has this skin care line perfect!.

This was a surprise. I recieved this in a subscription box so it took me a little while to use it. One day I saw it in the shower! My husband dug through my cleansers! Shocked because 1. He complains about my makeup, skincare, haircare, etc but what got me was we have been married for 14 years and as much as I nagged at him to use something other than regular soap on his face I now see a Cleanser of mine in the shower.

anyway I used it and loved it. Mild expholiation, very soft skin. Elf keeps surprising me over and over. As far as leaving it in the shower for hubby nope took it away and replaced it with another brand I had multiples of lol.

Great product! #ELF.

Made my skin super soft, smells great, clean skincare product, and it exfoliates. It exfoliates very lightly which is great if you have sensitive skin or if your skin has been recently irritated by other skin care products or has been recently damaged (frost bite, wind burn, sun burn).

I find the scent so gentle and great for using right in the morning. It also makes my face feels tighter, which is great! It also pairs great with any moisturizer (I also use origins because I love the brand).

I also find it useful to use before using an acne medicated cream at night or any night time serums. For dry skin, I recommend using in the morning before applying any serums, moisturizers or sunscreens as it helps the product deep into your skin.

For oily skin (light my partner), it works well as a gentle exfoliator that can be used twice a day. It’s also great to use before apply any AHAs or any retinoids.

I first tried this cleanser as part of a gift set years ago and absolutely fell in love with it. Since then I’ve purchased multiple full size tubes and I always make sure to restock before my current supply runs out.

The cleanser itself contains super tiny scrubbing beads that leaves your skin feeling super clean and soft and yet is gentle enough for daily use. It lathers well, but washes off super easy. It is even able to remove my waterproof eyeliner with ease! Would give this product 10 stars if I could and would recommend everyone to give it a try!.

I love this brand this was one of the first brands I tried when I got back into my skincare routine. I enjoy the smell of coconut a lot if you don’t then I wouldn’t recommend any of this brands products and especially this one.

Be ready for the coconut it’s so so good ! I have a fewback ups it’s that pleasant of a scent and good though recently I finally got that baby soft skin back so I no longer need to use this product everyday like I once did.

I still use it just a lot less since I got back my soft skin the skin I had before I got in my late 20’s and before I had my baby which I’m so happy about. If you don’t have really sensitive skin and have used a facial scrub to know what I mean I totally recommend; I’ve always had real sensitive skin and like I said I used this everyday if I would feel lazy in the weekend tops 5 days a week and this product is really great after all it totally helped me to get back that baby soft skin I use to have and now thankfully have again due to using this product religiously everyday so definitely definitely recommend! Theirs a ton of facial scrubs I’ve tried and have laying around I mostly always reach for this one and this one is my favorite and always will be the smell makes me feel like I’m in a spa.

I totally love channeling that in spa feeling so this is my go to at home spa feeling. If you have sensitive skin like me and are scared to use a facial scrub you don’t need to go hard on your skin it’s your face and you definitely have to be more gentle on your face than like you were to use a body scrub on your body, sometimes when I use this I think back to how I used this everyday and think I can’t believe I use it so often and it didn’t bother me whatsoever and now I feel like I’m using sand paper against my face lol which is exactly why I use this a ton less because I just don’t need it since it helped me to get where I wanted my skin to be and feel like but I still have to maintain that soft baby smooth skin so it’s definitely why I make sure to use it at least a few times a month.

I don’t want my soft skin going away and it definitely will if you don’t maintain your skincare routine. It’s happened to me before that’s why now I’ll never skip a day and if I skip due to being tired a day is all I’ll skip you gotta find what skincare makes you happy and this scent from this product just makes me want to keep coming back for more! I rate this 10 out of 10.

I use a lot of chemical exfoliants but they weren’t working to really get that clean slate feeling for my face. I searched for a physical exfoliant and found this one – affordable, smells amazing, not too harsh.

it worked perfectly. It got the dirt and gunk off my face leaving a fresh, clean slate to add moisturizer too. My face was so soft and just felt brand new. The smell is very coconuty and obviously if you are sensitive to coconuts (oil, sugar, etc) in any way, stay away from this.

My skin loves coconut so this is the perfect physical exfoliant for me. I use once weekly when my face feels weighed down or dull. Highly recommend!.

First of all this stuff smells so good, like coconut pastry or macaroons or something. I love how this works on my skin, it’s not really chemical forward but uses more of the natural ingredients (sugar) to clean your pores.

My skin is sensitive to chemical products and definitely prefers natural and oil based products to clean the skin. This scrub combined with Palmers oil cleanser has done wonders for my skin and I recommend it to anyone with very oily skin, uneven texture, or uneven color.

Oil fights oil, water and chemical won’t work!.

I originally bought this exfoliate because it was non-comedogenic and my skin needs a physical and chemical exfoliate to get the job done. This is probably the worst exfoliate I have ever used. It barely has any granules in the product to actually exfoliate the dead skin off your face.

It didn’t even look like exfoliated at all when I used it. I also didn’t find that it deep cleaned my skin either. It felt like it just sat on my skin to add a bit of moisture back in and that was it.

Will be returning and wouldn’t buy it again.

I have been battling mask-ne for a long time now, and this has helped reduce breakouts by a lot!!! I’m not sure what other people are doing to call it too rough, maybe putting it on their face without wetting it first? Yes, there is A LOT of heavy, gritty sugar in it, but if you wet your face and hands first, you get the benefit of a scrub and the sugar melts away as you scrub your face.

By the time I’m done the sugar chunks have melted. It’s the perfect amount of exfoliation and my chin is looking normal again. I’m so impressed with the smell, grit, and results. And for the price with how much you get, totally worth it.

I was trying a bunch of different exfoliating cleansers but they all had these tiny beads that hardly did anything or I would only get a small amount of beads so there would literally be no exfoliation.

This stuff is definitely good if you want to get a good scrub on without being harsh.

I am a BIG fan of the body scrubs~~ after trying the sacred Moroccan Rose, I became a collect-them-all type of person~~ they do what I what them to do, smell great and are at a wildly competitive price point for how much you get, so I thought why not try some of their other products? This Blueberry Turmeric face scrub became my first test stepping out (but not too far out) of Tree Hut’s comfort zone.

I will say, like the body scrubs, this one is *quite* gritty, I dare say even a little more so than the body scrubs so you would have to like that for your face~~ me personally, I love a good gritty scrub for the face because some of these frou-frou ones out there are too microbead-y~~ weak and don’t do squat.

I want to *feel* the exfoliation, ya feel me? and you definitely will with this. I would compare it a bit to feeling like the popular St. Ives Apricot Scrub, if you’ve ever used that, except this one’s not creamy.

And the smell~~ oh lawdy, can we talk about the smell!? In a good way! Oh my goodness~~ it is a deliciously light but gorgeous sweet scent of blueberries mixed with something else~~ maybe a hint of floral? I don’t know~~ it’s hard to describe, but it leaves your face feeling and smelling like you just stepped out of a spa~~ and the scent lingers for quite awhile afterwards too, which I think is a plus! All in all, I say for the price point and the amount you get, mixed with all of the other pros above~~ Tree Hut has found itself another winner here!!😍 I bought the Watermelon face one too, so I can’t wait to try that as well!.

I’m late 30s with sensitive skin that’s dry in the winter, oily in summer, and spontaneously breaks out just for the chaos. I like manual exfoliation a few times a week or whenever I have dry skin. My usual face scrub is Freeman Black Sugar and Charcoal but I’d like trying new things and haven’t seen many sugar face scrubs (they’re mostly microbeads that do nothing or overly harsh exfoliants that don’t break down at all).

This scrub smells like blueberry syrup, definitely an artificial fragrance and it does linger on skin for a while but I like it. The sugar chonks are on the larger side, similar to what’s in the Tree Hut body scrub, but they break down easily when rubbed on skin.

I haven’t seen a difference in my skin with this but it’s only one product, I haven’t been using it long, and I haven’t seen any negative reactions so I’ll take it! :).

I’ve been using this exfoliator for years (hormonal acne). Smells great, and the cooling sensation is nice. The beads exfoliate nicely. Now my son uses it too, because he started having pimples. It works great, cleans the skin perfectly, hence reduces breakouts and helps current ones disappear faster.

I couldn’t find the peach one which I usually use. I loved the peach one. This one is less scrubby (if you know what i mean). the peach one really exfoliates and my face feels 100x smoother but i’d use it only 1-2 times a week.

this one i use everyday because it’s gel and less abrasive. feels minty cool too. nothing wrong, but i’d still like to get the peach one for deep clean. i guess it really depends on your preference. but for the price, good product.

I don’t know what it is about this product, but I absolutely love it. I have never found any other face wash product to work this well with my skin. I notice whenever I use anything else I get instant breakouts, so I don’t see myself giving up on this any time soon.

Bonus, it’s like $3. I stock up on a few of them and don’t have to buy any more face wash for a year!.

I got this product as part of a VoxBox campaign. I’m used to just removing makeup and impurities by double cleansing (oil cleanser followed by normal cleanser with chemical exfoliant). It’s been working well for my sensitive skin for the most part and I’ve been hesitant on trying a product that uses physical exfoliation, but decided to give this a try anyway.

I washed with oil cleanser first, then used this afterwards. I can feel the microbeads, but they weren’t as abrasive as other exfoliants that I’ve tried before. I noticed that there were some tiny blackheads that the oil cleanser wasn’t able to remove that this product removed completely! I’ve been using it 2-3x per week since and it hasn’t resulted in any redness or breakouts.

My skin feels so soft and smooth!.

I love this facial scrub. It is very gentle and effective. I also love how affordable and easily accessible it is, as I can buy it at my local Walmart. I take just a dime sized amount of product, and very lightly rub it on my face applying very little pressure.

It leaves me with clean, smooth skin.

I have been using Cleen Beauty’s Face Wash for about 2 months now, let me tell you!! This stuff is AMAZING!!! I absolutley love the little cleansing beads for one. For two it’s all natural plant based, which for me is a huge deal! I have such sensitive skin that most facial products burn my skin leaving it really red, rashes, eventually my skin starts to peel.

It makes my skin not only feel, but look clean as well. My face is so soft not just after washing like some facial cleansers either, it’a soft always! Which I really really like that. It also smells so good.

It takes about 6 weeks to actually see the effects of a new skin care regimen and I can see the difference!.

This is a fairly gentle face scrub. I use this once a week for exfoliating. Is it better than other drugstore facial scrubs? I’m not sure. I don’t notice anything different from your basic scrubs. It gets the job done though, so I guess that’s all that matters.

So recently I received this in the mail to try from top box circle! I was soooo excited because this is my first thing ever from them! I’ve never tried a facial scrub on my face before, so I’m hoping it works well.

I tried it tonight and the scrub definitely help suck up the dryness in my skin and left my skin feeling soft. All I’m hoping is that it doesn’t make me break out 🤞🏼 the smell isn’t good but isn’t terrible either.

Overall so far love it!.

I love The Body Shop products, and especially tea tree scrub. It is very calming for acne prone skin. After using it about 3 times my acne disappeared. I feel so happy with the results that I want to share it with everyone.

This works great if you want to get rid of the blemishes. It has a nice thin scrub texture and has a lovely delicate smell. My face looks glowing and plumped after using it. I highly recommend this product! It is truly amazing!.

I cannot express enough what this ingredient has done for my skin. I had severe acne scarring, large pores, blackheads and most of all lots of redness and inflammation. I have very sensitive skin and my skin LOVES this stuff.

Soaks up like a sponge and really gives my skin that tight squeaky clean and fresh feeling. Worth every penny. Also, every item in this brands line with tea tree oil is amazing EXCEPT the mattifying primer.

It’s a no go roll up on your face type of situation.

My teen son has been struggling with blackheads and breakouts for the last year. We had tried the Cetaphil cleanser, the clinique acne gel, and clinique moisturizer but he wasn’t using them regularly.

His breakouts were the result of too much oil production so I wanted to try this line instead. I bought the night lotion, tea tree oil and tea tree scrub cleanser. It hasn’t worked miracles. He still gets some breakouts, but his face is significantly less oily which means fewer breakouts.

It also does not dry his skin out like salicylic acid tends to do.

I have sensitive, acne-prone, generally problematic skin. My pores are visible from space and I frequently get blackheads, especially on my nose. I have tried countless face washes, scrubs, creams, lotions, etc.

, both prescription and over-the-counter. In 20+ years of battling bad skin and searching for a product that will consistently offer some relief to it, I continue to try, and ultimately reject, everything I buy.

But this scrub feels different. It’s still a little early to pledge my unwavering commitment to this product, but I will tell you I am thus far very impressed. It smells great, nothing too strong, just a nice, clean fragrance.

When washing your face, you can really feel how well it’s working. The micro beads are gentle but effective, and the scrub feels velvety and luxurious on your skin. And it works! The difference in my skin was remarkable after just one use.

It left my skin clean and soft, and my pores appeared much smaller, just from a proper washing. I love it!.

Clean & Clear Deep Action Exfoliating Scrub totally cleanses my face. It completely removes dirt and makeup. I have combination skin. I appreciate that this oil-free scrub contains natural micro-scrubbers with ingredients that I can readily identify.

The scent is pleasant, soapy fresh and mild. It does not produce a lot of lather and rinses off completely, leaving my skin feeling soft. So, it has a nice cooling, tingly feeling that lasts quite awhile after use.

My skin feels tighter, smoother – not at all dry. I think (with regular use) this Clean & Clear product will improve the appearance of my facial skin by addressing my adult acne and large pores. I like the packaging design and color scheme.

It is a tad flimsy. Yet easy to handle. I will purchase Clean & Clear Deep Action Exfoliating Scrub and recommend to family and friends. I love the “just had a facial feel”! Bonus note: I notice my hands have also benefitted and now make sure to wash them thoroughly before rinsing my face.

While picking up my other Neutrogena products at Target, I saw this mask. My face has been pretty dry and I thought, what the heck, let’s give it a go. A few days later I decided to give it a try. I opened up the package, and much like the negative reviews stated, it was a mess.

The bottom half was stuck to the top half and the white paper was off of both halves. I did my best to separate the two and put the lower portion on first. It didn’t fit my face very well and I had to keep positioning it.

The top half was a little easier to position, but still a little tricky. I found it odd that the excess eye and mouth pieces were still attached, but I just left them alone. I felt like the guy from Silence of the Lambs, but after about 5 minutes on my face, I could tell it was working.

My face started to tingle and then started feeling cool and refreshed. I left the mask on for approximately 20 minutes. After taking the mask off, I rubbed in the product as stated on the package. There was a lot of extra product left over as most of it had been absorbed.

My skin is no longer dry and flaky and feels so much better!.

I have recently fallen in love with Kiehls. Never have I found a line of products that both meets and exceeds my expectations. I basically want to try everything. I ordered this face scrub as an impulse buy while ordering my usual Conditioning Cucumber Herbal Cleanser.

I couldn’t resist the fruity pineapple papaya vibes, as I love tropical anything. I tried it this week, and oh boy, it’s LOVELY. It is soothing, feels luxurious for a scrub, and just delighted my face.

I felt like I almost didn’t need moisturizer (but then again, I am so happy to put my other’s Kiehls products on my face, so ended up moisturizing anyway). Thanks for another great product. I am sure this will be on my reorder list.

Kiehl’s Pineapple Papaya Facial Scrub is a terrific facial scrub that can be used twice a week. I love to use this at night time, it gets rid of all the dead skin cells, and skin is therefore more receptive to your skincare routine, your skin will love and instantly absorb your serum and night cream.

This scrub has real pineapple and papaya in it, so you can imagine it smells pretty wonderful. My skin feels so soft and smooth after I have exfoliated with this scrub, it looks and feels so much brighter and radiant.

It gently exfoliates the skin, taking off the dead skin that can clog pores and make your makeup look like it is caked on. After just one use, your skin feels instantly soft and lovely. After a week, you will notice your skin is much smoother and your skin care is working better as it is not having to work so hard to to sink through all that dead skin.

Makeup application improved for me 100%, as often my makeup looked a bit caked on, especially if I touched up my makeup throughout the day. \n\nPRO’s\nSmells wonderful, so is a pleasure to use\nGood value and large tube, so will last a good 6 months\nEasy and quick to use, takes about one minute to exfoliate your face\nNot harsh or abrasive\n\nI recommend this product to anyone who wants smoother skin.

If you have not exfoliated before, your skin will absolutely love it and feel so soft, smooth, and your skin will look brighter, healthier and more visibly radiant. \n.

I’ve been using this facial scrub regularly since I was a teenager. I think the people who are complaining about it just aren’t using it right. The physical exfoliants aren’t as important as the enzymes in this scrub.

Rub it in for a few seconds and then leave it on for 15-20 minutes as a mask. It makes a great skin prep for the rest of your routine. I’m wrinkle free at 50 and this product is one I credit for my great skin.