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Looking for a craft or activity for your next girls night or spa night? Or ideas for a Super Saturday activity? Maybe your kids are having friends over. Whatever the event, these simple and inexpensive DIY essential oils sugar scrubs are so much fun to make. They make the perfect Christmas or teacher gift too!We’ve made them at multipe parties and activities and they’re always a hit. You only need a few ingredients. Add our DIY sugar scrub labels to finish them off nicely. Read on for the recipe and to find the free printable.
Sugar scrubs are so good for your skin. They help exfoliate your dead skin cells leaving you with smoother, more glowing skin. They also double as a moisturizer since they’re made with oil. We love sugar scrubs and the best part is they’re super easy (and fun) to make!
If you’re looking for a great DIY Christmas or Thank You gift for friends, family, teachers, and/or neighbors — homemade sugar scrubs are a great option! They are also the perfect activity for a girls craft night or a Super Saturday activity idea. We made them at our last church Super Saturday activity and they were a huge hit.
To make homemade sugar scrubs you only need a few ingredients — coconut oil, cane sugar, and essential oils of your choice. We love adding essential oils for the aromatherapy and natural health benefits. Our favorite sugar scrub essential oils are:
Lavender – can help you to relax and sleep; known for alleviating headaches.
Orange – loaded with vitamin C; can help skin appear brighter, smoother, and clearer.
Lemongrass – can help relieve stress, anxiety, and depression; has antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory properties.
Rosemary – can help improve brain function; can help you feel more alert, energetic, and cheerful.
Peppermint – can help with headaches, indigestion, muscle pain, sunburn relief, and itchy skin conditions.
Tea Tree – lots of antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral medicinal benefits; can help treat eczema.
Eucalyptus – has antibacterial, moisturizing, and anti-inflammatory properties; can treat eczema and acne.
Frankincense – can help improve skin health; contains astringent, digestive, antiseptic, and disinfectant health properties.
You can download our go-to sugar scrub recipe card below, complete with step by step instructions. If you’re going to make sugar scrubs for a girls night, Super Saturday activity, Primary activity or Young Women’s activity we’d suggest printing out the instructions for each person to reference. It will help your activity run a lot smoother.
We made our sugar scrubs into cute little gift packs. We used plastic mini containers from the dollar store and packaged them in a three pack variety of essential oils. You can also order a similar container from Amazon or use these condiment containers. You could put your sugar scrubs in a mason jar, but we opted for small plastic containers because we didn’t want the possibility of jars shattering when or if they were used in the shower.
If you’re going to separate your sugar scrub into three small containers like we did, add your essential oils to your sugar scrub after you’ve separated them into three equal parts. The recipe calls for 8-10 drops of essential oils for a regular batch, but if you separate it into three equal parts lessen the amount of drops per container. We’d suggest adding 3-4 drops per small container.
Take your homemade sugar scrubs up a notch by adding our simple and modern sugar scrub labels. Download the free sugar scrub labels below and print on a full sheet of label paper or peel ‘n stick paper. Cut them out and add to your containers.
We opted to color our sugar scrubs so we could easily tell them apart. This is completely optional. Just remember a little goes a long way, so start with a tiny drop of food coloring and add until you get the desired color. We didn’t have any issues with the food coloring staining our skin when using the sugar scrub. Don’t add too much and you should be just fine.
Store your sugar scrub at room temperature for easy spreading. If it gets cold and hardens, just warm it slightly by running it under warm water. If you don’t contaminate your sugar scrubs when using them, they can last for 2-3 months. In the fridge, they’d be good for up to 6 months.
Download our recipe card and labels below for your next Super Saturday activity or craft night with the girls. Then package them up for the perfect gift for friends, family, neighbors, and your teacher.
The following essential oils work well in sugar scrubs: lavender, peppermint, rosemary, eucalyptus, cedarwood, patchouli, and orange. While you enjoy the scrub, adding essential oils to your sugar scrub recipe can offer therapeutic advantages and a relaxing scent.
here are the basic ingredients you'll need to make this body scrub: 3/4 cup (150 g) of coarse sugar. 3 Tbsp of oil. a few drops (to smell preference) of your favorite essential oil fragrance/s.
Mix together sea salt and carrier oil until well combined.Add in essential oils until desired scent reached (10-20 drops) and any optional add-ins. Store in a sealed jar in a cool location until ready for use. When using: scoop out desired amount and scrub onto clean, damp skin.
Fine sugar is ideal when you want to restore your skin's healthy glow. Instead of breaking away dry skin like coarse sugar, fine sugar helps to turn over the cells in your skin and infuse natural moisture. One of the best fine sugars for a DIY face scrub is brown sugar.
30-40 drops of essential oil (I used Lavender Essential Oil from Body Time in Berkeley, CA, but you can find a great variety on Amazon too!) Combine sugar and oil together in a bowl, starting with just the one cup of oil.
Mixing it with sugar makes an excellent scrub for removing dirt and giving your face a natural glow. Just mix a tablespoon of sugar in half a lemon's juice and mix it. You can also add a bit of honey to attain a nice consistency. Apply it all over you face and leave it for 20-30 minutes.
Although sugar scrubs are highly effective at physical exfoliation, they do not provide any other cleansing benefits.Salt scrubs, on the other hand, do detoxify the skin as they scrub, which can be a huge benefit for people struggling with overactive oil glands on the body, for example.
"In our opinion, the best body scrubs are made from coffee and honey," says esthetician and co-founder of Atelier Beauté, Aneta Zuraw. "Coffee peeling exfoliates dead skin cells, smooths and firms the skin, while honey takes care of moisture. It's cheap, easy to prepare, and is perfect for face and body care."
They're particularly useful for extremely dry, rough patches of skin on the elbows, knees, and heels. You may even use a sugar scrub on your hands to help prevent dryness. Due to the rough texture of sugar crystals, you should avoid using sugar scrubs on any areas of irritation, wounds, and rashes.
According to Bowe, sugar scrubs are generally ok for rough patches of skin such as elbows and heels. However, she doesn't recommend them on your face as the texture can be too abrasive.
If you have sensitive or dry skin, you may find sugar scrubs are better because they feel gentler on your skin and are less likely to cause irritation. However, if you want a way to detox and exfoliate, you may find that salt scrubs work better for you.
Adding different types of fragrance in the form of high quality essential oil makes sugar scrubs smell wonderful! Use your favorite oil, make different scents, or combine scents for your own signature sugar scrub. Some ideas are: lavender.
You can use any vegetable base oils. But, as someone stated, lard is rendered pork fat. My suggestion is any oils used for a body scrub, be the type of oil that is in a liquid form at room temperature. Coconut oil hardens, really bad on your plumbing over time.
You could emphasize a scent in this sugar scrub recipe by using essential oils. Some body washes have no scent or minimum scent so using essential oil is a great option.
Add your favorite essential oils to the mix and take the benefits of your scrub to a whole new level of luxury and efficacy. Not sure where to start? Try this recipe featuring refreshing, vitalizing peppermint and spearmint, and cheering, uplifting sweet orange.
Introduction: My name is Greg O'Connell, I am a delightful, colorful, talented, kind, lively, modern, tender person who loves writing and wants to share my knowledge and understanding with you.
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