The Price of Beauty
I don't know about you but the price of potions and notions to keep your body fresh, nice smelling and glowing disgusts me to no end. I walk through Bath and Body Works, Victorias Secret, mall departments stores, Target and even Walmart and find the prices on many products to be startling.Buy Me for a New You! Buy Me to make yourself feel prettier than you ever will be! Throw your cash at our big corporation and we will reward you with chemicals "known to the state of California to be carcinogenic". (Have you seen those lables?????)
Let's be disgusted together and vow not to make those corporations and the CEO and Board of Directors richer than they already are. I am very serious. I never buy a product without asking myself if my purchase is actually going to make someone else richer while it makes us poorer.*
I pinkie swear I will not throw away my money on something I can make in ten minutes or less from things I have in my kitchen. BTW, if you can eat it there is a 99% chance there is a way to use it to care for your body and skin in the bath.
Go to your kitchen and take stock of what you have in your pantry. See that canister of sugar? How about some brown sugar? Oilive oil? Honey? That's all you need to make a sugar scrub for the shower.
You can even get a little fancy and purchase a food grade or cosmetic grade fragrance oil or essential oil to jazz it up and have your own signature scent. There are hundreds of companies online that sell fragrance oils for soap makers for use in scrubs, lotions, body sprays, etc. You can get excellent quailty duplicate scents for most any fragrance in well know hygeine products. I give most of my business to Wholesale Supply Plus. I have yet to order a product they don't stand behind. Most everything I have ordered by way of frgrance or essential oils has been fabulous to my senses.
When I mixed up my batch of sugar scrub I used coconut lime verbena fragrance oil. It is a delicious scent for summer time and is rather sensual to my nose. I would even hedge to use the word erotic. Mmmm Hmmm. Smells that good.
How are we going to make this erotic shower scrub that makes us want to melt? Also might make your husband/boyfriend/significant other/ random guy at the office come sniffing around, too. Easy.
Recipe for Sugar Body Scrub
1 medium sized clean jar to store your sugar scrub in.
1 mixing bowl for the actual mixing of your concoction (you can mix it in the jar if it is large enough)
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup olive oil
2 tbsp honeyMix it all together very well. If you use fragrance oils or essential oils put those in the olive oil first and mix them well then add to the sugar and honey. Store it in your sealed jar in the refrigerator until needed. Take out a little at a time when you shower if you use a larger glass jar. Accidents can happen and we want no glass shards in the shower. Be safe!
You could also spend a little time on a saturday afternoon and make several small jars of scrub in different scents so that you have a choice of scrubs. Just remember to lable the jars in the fridge so no one tops their toast thinking it is a new marmalade or jam.
If you don't want to wait and have to order scents you can check Michael's in the melt and pour aisle for essential oils. Make sure they are manufactured for skin products! Again - be safe! No pimples or rashes or burns from oils not made to be used in bath products.
Also, if you don't care for a scent the brown sugar and honey is yummy on its own.
That's it. You're done. Hit the shower.
$12 - $45 jar of sugar scrub for low price of $2 or less.
How easy was that? Go make some and let me know how it goes. I also want to know if you step out on the edge and use fragrance oils.
I do not buy CD's, DVD's for this very reason. I don't let my kids buy them either. 12 songs that cost $14- $20 and they only really want to hear one song. They can find it online for .88 cents or less. It may add pennies some artists pocket but it won't subtract dollars from mine.
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That sounds great! I just might try that for my scaly legs. I look like an alligator in the winter...LOL
I don't pay much for stuff like that either; our dermatologist told me the best lotion for moisturizer is Curel - cheap and it works!
Do you have any easy recipes for facial scrubs? I have psoriasis AND sensitive skin. Lately, however, I have apparently hit puberty all over again. Pimples, random break outs and oil patches AMID the dry, sensitive skin!
Have you ever used sea salt scrubs or salt bars to detox the pores and help with the flaking and itching? I do make salt bars and salt scrubs are easy to make too.
I love making these scrubs. I made a scrub for my hands this morning with some baking soda and a few drops of jojoba oil and they feel wonderful. It's so much fun to play mad scientist in your kitchen and then have a finished product that makes you feel like a million bucks but only costs pennies.
Would you be willing to post some of the easier facial scrub recipes when you have time? I would love to try them!
How come it has to be stored in the refrigerator?
Homemade scrubs do not contain preservatives or additives to prevent bacterial growth also sometimes oils will go rancid. Keeping it in the fridge keeps it fresh until you use it up. There are additives and preservatives you can buy to add to it but then you end up slathering chemicals on your body the same as commercial products.