Spending more time at home is the perfect excuse to learn new things, try something you’ve always wanted to do but never had the time for, or practise self-care. The perfect combination of all three of those things: making DIY body scrubs. Sure, store-bought exfoliating products do the trick just fine, but there’s something so satisfying about mixing together items you already have in your kitchen to create a custom treatment.
Handmade body scrubs make for great additions to a spa night or bath, or presents to gift your friends when you get to see them next. Using only common essentials that you probably already have in your pantry, we’re sharing four all-natural and easy body scrub recipes that you can whip up on a budget, ahead.
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DIY Brown Sugar and Honey Scrub
What You Need:
It doesn’t get much easier than this two-ingredient homemade body scrub. All you need is brown sugar and raw honey – two ingredients you probably have hiding in the back of your pantry. The Kitchen McCabe shares the ratio for mixing this quick body and face scrub. Just be prepared: it smells heavenly.
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DIY Lavender Vanilla Sugar Scrub
What You Need:
- Sugar
- Coconut oil
- Vitamin E oil
- Vanilla extract
- Lavender essential oil
Suburban Simplicity has a delicious-smelling lavender vanilla sugar scrub recipe. Thanks to the lavender essential oil, it has a calming scent that can help get you ready for bed.
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DIY Coffee Scrub
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Simply Laura Leigh shares her recipe for a two-ingredient coffee body scrub. Coffee has a long list of skincare benefits and has even been shown to help temporarily plump skin’s texture.
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DIY Sea Salt Scrub
What You Need:
- Olive oil
- Fine sea salt
- Essential oils
Savory Lotus shares how to make a simple and effective sea salt scrub. All it takes is three ingredients, and you’re on your way to the softest skin of our life. Add in a few drops of your favorite essential oil to give the scrub a scent.
