I have always enjoyed cooking…mixing flavors and foods to create a meal that (hopefully!) my family will love. I have recently discovered that I also enjoy mixing foods and aromas to create DIY beauty products to pamper myself with! I love scrubs, lotions, facials and pedicures as much as the next girl but I am too cheap to pay for them on a regular basis. Not to mention that all natural beauty products cost an awful lot more than even regular creams and scrubs. So, I have decided to start expanding my kitchen skills into DIY beauty products and it has been incredibly easy. I am trying to stock up on an assortment of essential oils and some basic ingredients common to many DIY beauty products. This grapefruit sugar scrub is incredibly easy to make and only has a few ingredients. It is a great way to moisturize and exfoliate the skin while giving yourself a burst of energy with the invigorating citrus scent. The sugar can be a rough exfoliator so I don’t really recommend using this on your face. It is amazing for softening feet, cleaning hands after gardening, or smoothing out the skin on your legs so they are soft and subtle. You can play around with the essential oils to find a combination you really love. Personally I think citrus and herbs go perfectly together but you can add whichever aromas appeal to your own personal tastes. If you are interested in other DIY beauty products you may want to check out my coffee and brown sugar shea butter scrub.
If you enjoy making homemade sugar scrubs you can check out these free printable sugar scrub labels from Dixie Crystals.
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Grapefruit Vanilla Sugar Scrub
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Grapefruit Vanilla Sugar Scrub
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Diane is a professional blogger and nationally certified pharmacy technician at Good Pill Pharmacy. She earned her BS in Microbiology at the University of New Hampshire and has worked in cancer research, academics, and biotechnology. Concern over the growing incidence of human disease and the birth of her children led her to begin living a more natural life. She quickly realized that the information she was learning along the way could be beneficial to many others and started blogging and freelance writing to share this knowledge with others. Learn more about her HERE.
This sounds wonderful! I love grapefruit and look forward to trying this!
Natural and easy is the way to go, why should we pay for additives and brand marketing?
thanks,
Mitch
I agree! I love knowing exactly what is in my beauty products!
Grapefruit and vanilla would smell so great together!!
I love the smell of grapefruit. I need to try this out.
My sister in law made some DIY scrub last year for Christmas gifts. It was a huge hit!! I think these scents would be completely perfect.
I am really enjoying my kitchen beauty experiments!
Would coconut oil be ok instead of olive oil?
that might work but since coconut oil is a solid at room temp you might change the consistency. I have seen safflower oil recommended, too. I say make a half batch and see if it works!
I love this twist on my traditional favorite! I just make plain old brown sugar scrub. This just looks dreamy! I love using sugar scrub. It seems like the only thing that keeps my skin moisturized throughout the day.
Its great as a preshaving routine! Smooths out and moisturizes. I have much fewer rashes that way!
How long is that good to use? I would like to make it as christmas present. How long after I made it can you use it?
Thanks
I am not sure of an ‘official’ time but I have had mine in the bathroom in a cool dark spot for a month and it is still fine. I would say a couple weeks at least.