Often created from vanity-worthy gemstones, the lymph-flushing skin care darling has an impressive past.
By
Madge Maril
Mar 30, 2020
Ingrid Frahm
If you’ve visited, well, any clean beauty brand’s website in the last year, you’ve undoubtedly spotted it: the Gua Sha tool. Sleek, smooth, and often created from vanity-worthy gemstones, the lymph-flushing skin care darling has an impressive past. To learn all about the trending tool and massage technique, we asked celebrity facialists Georgia Louise Vassanelli and Angela Caglia—plus, Alder New York’s co-founder, Nina Zilka—for a history lesson.
What Does Gua Sha Mean?
“The term Gua Sha itself is defined in two parts: ‘gua’ for scraping; ‘sha’ for redness of skin,” explains Caglia. “It may also be called skin scraping, spooning, or coining,” adds Vassanelli.
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