How to Make Your Body Scrub at Home

We girls love to shop. We girls love gifts. We girls love bargains. If you want to give your friend a gift, you can make Body scrubs at home and gift them with it. The good news is that it is quite simple to make them. They don’t even require too much time and energy to make them. You need only less than five ingredients to make these DIY exfoliants.

• You will need a base and oil when you make your body scrub at home. The base can be made from either salts or sugars, depending on the size of the grain you prefer.  Coffee and oatmeal are other popular bases.

•  Body scrubs or exfoliants not only remove the upper layer of dead skin cells but also nourish, hydrate, soothe, and smooth out your skin.

• Below are all the utensils you will need; Plastic pipette, canning containers, mixing bowl, spoon.

1. Cinnamon Spice Sugar Scrub

Ingredients

2 cups of organic cane sugar

1 cup of olive oil

8 drops of cinnamon essential oil

Method

1.    Mix and stir salts or sugar and olive oil in a bowl until a scrub-like consistency is achieved.

2.    Using the pipette, add essential oil, 1 drop at a time.

3.    Spoon the mixture into canning jars or containers of your choice

If you don’t have a pipette, you can just use a spoon. It’s your call, as long as you are precise. Make sure you choose the fancy containers that will impress whoever the gift will be for and let them enjoy. Those essential oils really smell good.

2. Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Scrub

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups of coffee beans

½ cup of olive oil

1-2 tablespoons of vanilla extract

1 tablespoon of sweet almond oil

8 drops of mint essential oil

 Method

1.    Mix and stir coffee beans, almond oil, vanilla extract, and mint essential oil in a bowl until a scrub-like consistency is achieved.

2.    Spoon the mixture into your prettiest canning jars or containers of your choice and enjoy.

3. Minty Lavender Scrub

Ingredients

2 cups of sugar

1/2 cup of olive oil

4 drops of peppermint essential oil or 1/2 teaspoon mint extract. Mint keeps you awake and alert.

8 drops of lavender essential oil

Method

1.     Mix sugar, olive oil, lavender, and peppermint essential oil, in a bowl until a scrub-like consistency is achieved.

2.    Spoon the mixture into your prettiest canning jars or containers of your choice and enjoy.

4. Honey Oatmeal Scrub

Ingredients

1 cup of oatmeal

¼ cup of honey

8 drops of sweet orange essential oil

1.    Put all the ingredients in a food processor and mix them well.

2.    Spoon it in your favorite jar and enjoy.

How to Scrub Your Body

1.    Take some of the body scrub you just made at home and put it in the palm of your hand. If needed add a little bit of warm water to make a paste. You might need to only do this bit with the oatmeal scrub especially.

2.    Rub it onto your clean skin and gently massage it in circular motions so as to exfoliate your skin.

3.    Then wash it off with lukewarm water. 

4.    You should be careful when scrubbing your body as the oils are slippery.

5.    Do this preferably in the bathtub sitting down.

6.    Pat your skin dry with a clean towel if you are using it on your face.

Moisturize your Skin After Scrubbing

It is now time to tone and moisturize. If you are scrubbing your whole body make sure that you then moisturize while the skin is wet so as to have silky and soft skin. Enjoy…

The essential oils are for giving your homemade body scrubs a sweet scent. There is actually an available variety that you can choose from. For example, lavender, strawberry, chocolate, cinnamon essential oils. Here are a few of my favorites. You can buy all these ingredients online at www.amazon.com.