Bath Fizzies. Lemon Sugar Hand Scrub. Handmade Salt Pouches For The Shower Or Bath. I love salt scrubs, especially this time of year when I want to slough off the dead skin from winter, and I equally love bath salts for the skin softening ingredients in them – but more often than not I find myself in the shower.
These pouches are perfect for combining both bath salt and salt scrub into an exfoliating pouch I can bring into the shower, and they are simple to make. You can go a few different routes when making these so play around with your recipes and find your favorite. I made these for my mom for Mother’s Day so I added a few things for specific reasons. I will list them to give you an idea of how you can customize these to suit your needs. In my moms pouches I included: A few different ideas for a mix: Oatmeal, lavender buds, and powdered milk with a little of your favorite essential oilJust sea salt and grapefruit or petitgrain essential oil for an invigorating scrubSalts, herbs, and essential oil Start with 6 cheap washcloths. Folded in half, cut them into thirds. Sugar scrub. With the holidays around the corner and cold, dry winter weather upon us here in eastern Canada, I wanted to share a nice sugar scrub to make a great handcrafted gift for family and friends on your gift list this year.
This scrub will tame the dry, flaky skin winter brings, and makes an excellent stocking stuffer. Here’s what you need to make your own Moisturizing Sugar Scrub: Equipment: Mixing BowlKitchen ScaleSpoonTowel (7)Heavy Bottomed saucepan (5)Pipette or measuring spoons (4) Ingredients: 90 g white sugar (1)30 g brown sugar* (2) *You can substitute turbinado or demerara sugar for a coarse scrub45 g shea butter (honey can be substituted) (3)5 g liquid vegetable glycerine (optional)5 g jojoba or extra virgin olive oil (6)25 drops essential oil of your choice (some popular choices are lavender, sweet orange, and clary sage)2 Vitamin E capsules, broken and contents squeezed into recipe 1. 2/3. Homemade Herbal Sugar Scrub. Thank you for visiting Little House in the Suburbs.
Please subscribe and you'll get great simple living tips and how-to articles delivered to your inbox, for free! I have never been one for sugar scrubs. I have oily skin and the idea of putting something with more oil in it on my face, regardless of how ‘scrubby’ it claimed to be–appalling. But after reading that sucrose in a good oil actually has alpha-hydroxy (chemical exfoliant) properties, I thought I might give it a try. Besides, I had a lot of dried basil in the garage. 1. 2. 3. 3/4 cup of sugar1/4 c olive oil1T herbs (1-3 different kinds if you like)10-20 drops of your favorite essential oil 5. 6. 7. TO USE: Take a handful and GENTLY apply to face. Ivory Tagged as: chemical-free, frugal living, green living, homemade body products, natural body care.