Make Body Scrubs with Salt & Sugar at Home

Salt and sugar scrubs are one of easiest home treatments that truly deliver. Not only is slathering sugar and oil all over your body wickedly pleasant, but the exfoliating factor leaves skin refreshed, vibrant, and as soft as a certain anatomical part of an infant.

Banana Sugar Body Scrub

When the bananas are starting to brown, grab those beauties and put them to use. This one skips the oil and relies purely on the benefit of banana and the gently abrasive sugar.

• 1 ripe banana
• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
• ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract or your favorite essential oil (optional)

Smash ingredients together with a fork into a chunky goop. Don't over-mash or it will become too thin. If you want a banana scrub for your face, reserve some of the banana and mash it separately without sugar. In the shower, pat the sugar mixture and gently massage over your body. For your face, gently massage plain banana there, avoiding the eye area. Rinse off with warm water.

Rosemary Lemon Salt Scrub

Ingredients:

• 1 cup kosher salt* (I used this infused salt, but you can use plain!)
• 1/2 cup pure organic almond oil (If you aren't making the infused salt and instead are using plain kosher salt, add the following to your mixture)
• The zest of one lemon
• 2 teaspoons fresh thyme, leaves stripped from the stems.

Directions:

• Pour the salt into a clean, sterilized container with a tight-fitting lid.
• If you're using plain salt, add the lemon zest and thyme.
• Pour the almond oil over top and screw the lid on tightly.
• To use, just give the jar a stir to mix the oil and salt together, and scrub away in the shower!
• The scrub will keep for up to 6 months stored in an airtight container at room temperature.

Tomato Sugar Scrub

If you want the skincare benefits of tomato without springing for pricey products, it’s easy to make your very own tomato scrub at home using just a tomato and organic sugar! Michelle Phan shows you how in this video:

Vanilla Coconut Brown Sugar Scrub

Coconut oil is subtly fragrant and slightly miraculous. This one is a super moisturizer, and can practically double as dessert.

• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Mix ingredients together. Rub on skin while in the shower, massage, and rinse.

Sugary Minty Lip Scrub

For soft lips, this quick treatment is the ultimate treatment to make you a smooth kisser. Blend a bit jojoba or olive oil with caster sugar (also known as superfine sugar; you can also make your own by putting regular granulated sugar in the food processor for a minute) and a touch of peppermint or vanilla extract. Place some of the paste on your lips, massage and lick off.

Lavender Salt Scrub

• Take 1/2 cup of coarse sea salt
• Pour in 1/3 cup of grapeseed oil (you can also use jojoba, almond or coconut - whatever you like)
• Give it a good stir
• Mix in around 1 tablespoon of dried lavender
• Add 16 drops of lavender essential oil (or more/less depending on how smelly you like it)
• Mix again
• Pot it up, add a pretty label if you like and start scrubbing!

This makes quite a coarse scrub. You can also add some finer sea salt if you want to mix it up a bit. It probably goes without saying, but please don't use this scrub if you have any open cuts! That wouldn't be very clever.

Citrus Salt or Sugar Scrub

This will wake you up, great for the morning shower or after sports.

• 1/2 cup sea salt
• 1/2 cup oil of your choice (jojoba, almond, olive, whatever)
• 1 teaspoon citrus zest (lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit or a mix)

Mix ingredients together. Rub on skin while in the shower (avoiding eyes) and rinse off.

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