How To: Make Homemade Body Scrub

This stuff I had lying around the house went from this:

To delectable and effective homemade body scrub below! Perfect to combat the winter scaly skin.

Lately it's been getting a little chilly in Brisbane, and consequently my elbows and my legs have slowing becoming more and more scaly. Luckily, before my skin became so scaly and weird that I morphed into a fish, I remembered I had seen an awesome DIY recipe to make your own body scrub.

Don't get me wrong, I love expensive beauty products as much as the next gal (or well groomed guy) but I don't like the price tags, particularly when you are buying products that are not tested on animals (apparently not inhumanely slathering rabbits with lipstick means the product costs twice as much as one made by torturing animals). So this little project seemed like the perfect solution. Admittedly I was sceptical at how well the scrub would turn out, but after a test run in the shower this evening I am thoroughly impressed. This sweet scrub come through with top marks, and my skin feels soft and ladylike again.

I used:

• A cute jar
• 2-3 cups of raw sugar (or however much fits in your jar)
• 2 tbs of ancient massage oil I had in the cupboard and had never used (you could substitute this for olive or apricot oil)
• 10-12 drops of lavender essential oil, also forgotten in the back of my cupboard (you could use vanilla essence if you were just searching for stuff around the house)

Best of all, you just have to mix the ingredients together well, stuff them in a jar and you're done. This whole thing took less than five minutes to complete! To fully perfect the body scrub, I plan on keeping my eye out in the op shops for a tea spoon with a hole in the handle, so I can attach it to the string and have a little dipping spoon for my body scrub.

Try it, you won't be disappointed!

xo