Easy Homemade 3-Ingredient Vanilla Coconut Body Scrub
This time of the year, our skin is so dry and flaky. Why spend $30 or more on a body scrub from The Body Shop or other retailer when you can make it at home with only 3 ingredients for pennies and in only a couple of minutes. Oh, and it smells like summer. BLISS!
What You’ll Need:
- 1/2 cup solid coconut oil
- 1 cup white sugar
- Seeds from 1 vanilla pod
Directions:
- Use your whisk attachment on your mixer and whip 1/2 cup solid coconut oil for about 10 minutes. Be sure to stop to scrape down the sides after 5 minutes.
- Add 1 cup white sugar and the seeds from 1 vanilla pod. Mix for another 1-2 minutes.
- Transfer to an air tight container until ready for use.
Smells so good! You’ll love it. Thanks to Wonky Wonderful for the recipe!
Homemade Candy Cane Sugar Scrub
If you’re looking to make easy and inexpensive gifts for your loved ones this year, this Peppermint Candy Cane Sugar Scrub “recipe” is perfect. It smells so good and it is a lot like the expensive department store brands.
What You’ll Need:
- 2 cups of granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup almond or coconut oil
- Peppermint essential oil
- Raspberry juice or red food coloring
- Jar or container to hold it
- 2 bowls
- A piece of printer paper
Directions:
- Slowly pour the almond or coconut oil into the sugar until the consistency is soft and not too oily. It may take less than the amount of you have set aside, to watch for consistency.
- Add a few drops of peppermint essential oil to the mixture and stir together.
- Separate the mixture into 2 bowls of equal amounts.
- Add the food coloring or juice to 1 of the bowls of mixture.
- Roll the printing paper into a funnel (a regular funnel is too small for the mixture to flow through) and pour the colored mixture. Press down with spoon.
- Repeat with white, then colored, etc. until it is used up and creates a candy cane effect.
- Put on the cap and decorate with a bow!
- Go here for the label if you’d like to use it for your bottle or jar.
Thank you SO MUCH to The Idea Room for this tutorial. SUCH a great and healthy idea.
DIY Skin Cleansing Treatment
Need an all natural way to help cleanse your skin in a fresh & organic way? Give this a shot. It really does work!
For clearer skin:
Take half a cold Lemon from the fridge. Put 3-4 drops of Honey on it. Rub the Lemon on your Face, emphasizing the trouble areas. Leave the Lemon and Honey mixture on your face for 5 minutes, then wash it off with cold water. You will be able to see the results immediately. Additionally, Lemon Juice will help to fade other marks/scars on the face and the Honey will help to moisturize!
Doesn’t get much Frugal than that!