Every scrub has an exfoliating agent. This agent helps you in getting rid of flakiness and makes way for soft and supple skin. The primary ingredients like chocolate, banana, apricot etc., moisturise your skin to regain its lost vitality. The best part is that it takes no time to prepare them and can be used immediately! Check out some really cool and useful homemade body scrubs below.
1. Chocolate Coconut Scrub
You will need:
2 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup coconut oil
1/3 cup almond oil
Coconut extract or essential oil
chocolate scrub
Mix all the ingredients until you see coconut oil chumps in the bowl. For it to be visually appealing if you plan to sell it, add a few chocolate chips. You might be tempted to eat it, but watch out and use it where it must be. Delight your tummy with a brownie afterwards!
2. Mediterranean Olive Oil Scrub
You will need:
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup sea salt
1/2 cup brown sugar
A few drops of an essential oil of your choice
olive scrub
Blend the ingredients in a bowl and rub it on your skin while taking a shower. Brown sugar will exfoliate and remove dead skin cells. Unlike other scrubs, you will not need to moisturise after the bath because olive oil moisturises your skin and makes it dewy soft.
3. Green Tea Sugar Scrub
You will need:
2 tea bags of green tea
4-6 teaspoon olive oil
Sugar
greentea scrub
Grab two tea bags of green tea and add to it a non-abrasive exfoliator, i.e. sugar! Begin by adding four teaspoons of olive oil to it, but if you think it is too dry then add two to three more teaspoons to it to form a paste. Green tea will remove dirt from your pores, sugar will take care of the dead skin and olive oil will moisturise your dry skin.
4. Cinnamon Vanilla Scrub
You will need:
2-3 drops of cinnamon essential oil
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup raw cane sugar
Approx. 1/4 cup almond/coconut/olive oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
cinnamon vanilla Mix the cinnamon, vanilla extract, sugars and essential oils. Then slowly add the oil base while constantly mixing the ingredients. It is your choice to add whatever amount of oil you want; depends on what texture and consistency you are satisfied with and how oily you want your scrub to be.
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