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How to Make Salt and Sugar Scrub!

Posted on May 21, 2009
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I realized that instead of buying $10-20 scrubs you could make it yourself! I had to spread my excitement and what's better than making an instructable!

Step 1:Ingredients:

olive oil (almond oil works too)
baking soda (A&H FTW)
cane sugar
turbinado sugar
sea salt
vanilla extract (or essential oils)
bowl
spoon
plastic bag (clean jar is better, plastic bag is cheaper)
sticker paper (totally not necessary, use tape and regular paper, 100% cheaper)

Step 2:Add Cane Sugar & Brown Sugar:

In your bowl add 3 spoonfuls of white cane sugar.
Then add 3 more spoonfuls of turbinado sugar

For this scrub sugar is the main ingredient. Sugar is lovely and skin softening.

Step 3:Add Salt & Baking Soda:

Next add a spoonful of salt: Salt has a great texture and is an ingredient in most bath scrubs.
Add a spoonful of baking soda: Baking soda makes your skin amazingly soft. It's great plain even but better in a scrub.

Step 4:Stirring your scrub:

Stir your mixture until all lumps are gone and it is smooth and one color.
(This step is actually fun, all the colors mix and it's pretty)

Step 5:Oil & Stirring:

Add a spoonful of oil and stir it in.
Keep adding 1/2 spoonfuls of oil and stirring until your scrub has the consistency of a slushie (slushie=oil is spread out and plentiful, but there isn't a pool of oil)
Add about two drops of vanilla extract. You can replace the extract with cinnamon or any essential oils but I prefer a simple scent.

Step 6:Finishing Touches:

Spoon your scrub into a plastic bag carefully.
Then add a label onto your bag (optional but pretty). Tape and paper works swell.
Finally enjoy your sugar and salt scrub or give it away for someone else to enjoy!!!

I hope you enjoyed this instructable! Please critique it as much as you want!
Feel free to ask any questions, and if I made any mistakes let me know.

Goodnight everyone. -falls asleep-

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