All Natural Brown Sugar/Salt Body Scrub

Who of us doesn't like a Good Body Scrub - but doesn't want it to contain any chemical made fragrances, parabens and SLS's  or any other such gunk and then have to pay through the nose for it.

Me for one. Living in Wales, Great Britain, my skin was soft and I didn't need the use of moisturizers every day.. But moving & Living in Utah...my skin went all crazy on me.... Feeling more like dry, rough crocodile skin, than soft, smooth human skin. I would try and use as many different varieties of body lotions etc., and finding them merely okay or they had TOO many chemical elements added. And having a baby girl who's skin didn't even tolerate Burts Bee Baby products, I went back to the drawing board -or more like the kitchen to make my own.

After making my own homemade Shea Butter Body Butter, which we fell in love with & still use to this day, I got to thinking about making a good body scrub. I knew that Coconut Oil, Almond Oil & Essential Oils are wonderful, all natural goodness. I concocted an easy Body Scrub that literally takes 30 minutes to make!

Now how easy is that.

This is what you'll need to make your own

All Natural Brown Sugar/Salt Body Scrub

3 Cups of Epsom Salts

3 1/2 cups of Brown Sugar 

( I like Sugar in the Raw as the size is not too big)

3 Cups of Coconut Oil

1/3 cup Sweet Almond Oil

Essential Oils.

(I used roughly about 8-9 drops of each)

Lemongrass 

Lemon Eucalyptus

Tea Tree

Peppermint

You can experiment on which & how much Essential Oils to use for yourself  & test first to make sure your skin can handle them.

Measure your Oil's into a Microwavable jug, Then pop the jug into the Microwave & set it for 2 minutes.

Check it to make sure the Oil's have completely melted.

Add your Brwon Sugar & Salts.

Give it a good stir and add the Essential Oils in and stir again.... And be prepared for your nose to have a wonderful blast of sweet and fresh aroma.

Spoon your Body Scrub into your jars.

( I use a dried Eucalyptus Leaf in mine.. it adds a nice touch as well as adding more oils, when it started to absorb the oils which is already in the scrub)

This amount makes quite a large batch, you can use for yourself, or dress them up with some simple Burlap & twine, add a spoon

 And give as gifts.

Hey Christmas is coming..... These will make fabulous gifts.

This is how much this batch makes.

This is what I use in my shower. A large heavy duty Plastic Ziploc Container. With a piece of twine tie around it and tied a spoon into it for easy scooping out purposes. I shower, and scrub it all over, even my face, exfoliating all that dead skin off.... The wonderful aroma that circulates around you and fills the bathroom. I rub it on my legs wash it off then I shave my legs, using the oils as my 'shaving gel'.

Your legs will feel and smell like a million dollars!

Finish off after you have dried with some homemade Shea Butter Body Butter

Go on...Give it a go.. Make some for yourself & be  sweetly amazed! 

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Playdough Day.

Seren love's to play with her dough.

 As well as making snakes, she also tries to sneak eating the playdough!! Yuk, lol

Although; it's not going to harm her.. Its homemade playdough with flour, salt , cream of tartar and essential oil. Easy!

Although she tends to forget that it tastes really, really salty.. So when she eats some, she pulls quite the sour face lol...and spits the playdough out..

                                              Recipe for Playdough.

1 cup of Flour

1 cup of Salt (I used sea salt)

2 Tablespoons Cream of Tartar (Found in the spice Aisle)

1 Tablespoon Oil (I used Coconut Oil)

Essential Oils, Optional – (I used 7 drops of Peppermint)

Mix first 4 ingredients in a pan. Add water and mix well. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, for 3 – 5 minutes. Dough will Become difficult to stir and form a “clump”. Remove from stove and knead for 5 minutes, I used a little extra flour to help the kneading process.

Play dough will keep for a long time stored in a covered plastic container. We have been using ours for 5 weeks now & its still as good, as when we first made it, even smells lovely.

Also if it gets on to your carpet...don't worry let it dry & it will come off easy. I should know lol

(I chose not to use any food coloring, I prefer natural, but if you want to have colors, then try this blog site HERE - its colors are from spices & foods! Cool ideas - I will have to try it.)

My big little tinker :-)

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Homemade Whipped Shea Butter Lotion

Since, Carys was born, 18mths ago, I had to go back to the drawing board with anything we put on her body- she was super sensitive to even Burt's Bee's Baby Products.


I went on the search for what we could use on her delicate baby soft skin. With having to learn how to read what chemicals and products used in most commercial products, I realized most have so much bad, chemicals, even the 'natural' products too! That left me feeling frustrated, as mothers, we only want the best for our new babies, not all that icky bad gunk! 





I finally found a video on YouTube,  to make your own, Shea butter. It was so easy to do, although whenever, I do something new myself, I always feel some trepidation, as I want it to turn out just right, and who doesn't, right!

So, I set out to make some. I found some Raw Organic Shea Butter online line (yellowish in color, although  I have both now, the Ivory color Shea Butter too) through Amazon, as well as, 'Now Almond oil' and all my Essential oils. Or another good site, HERE. Organic Coconut Oil, from, the Local Health Store, again keep your eye open for deals, this is the best way to buy.  I bought the Shea butter in bulk! It stores well, and you a little goes a long way! 

Let me tell you, Carys' skin (as do all of my family"s) welcomes this wonderful smelling lotion and if she ever had a breakout from something she touched ( her sensitive skin! ) We'd apply some of our lotion and.. Within minutes the rash would clear up.

Or put the lotion into a non breakable container and use as soon as you have showered! As it makes the best moisturizer. I, also, have a pot by the kitchen sink and use it after washing the dishes. I have also played around with the amounts and made it a little thicker and use as lip gloss/moisturizer.

Note: Raw Shea Butter smells nutty.. As it hasn't been refined. It's in its natural form.

Here is what you'll need to make your own all natural, no chemicals added:


Whipped Organic Raw Shea Butter Lotion.

1 cup of Organic Shea Butter (Either yellow or Ivory, I used both today)
1/2 cup Organic Coconut Oil
1/2 cup Almond Oil
Essential Oils of your choice. I used 7 drops each of, Lemongrass, Lemon, Eucalyptus and Peppermint. 

Containers to put your lotion into - I used Half Pint Ball, Mason Jars' from Walmart package of 4.
Glass bowls to hold the ingredients, which can go in the freezer.
Measuring glass jugs, that can be used in the microwave.
Knife, to cut your Shea butter into smaller pieces.
Spoon.
Electric hand whisk

NOTE: I doubled the recipe, which makes just enough to fill the 4 containers.

I used scrap fabric  and twine to decorate the jars.

How to make it:

Cut your Shea butter into smaller pieces, put into one of glass jugs.

Spoon out Coconut Oil, into to the other glass jug.

Pour the Almond oil into the Larger glass bowl (the one that will go into the freezer)









Put both glass jugs with your Coconut oil & Shea butter in the microwave and turn it on. This isn't a set time.. You just have to keep an eye on it till it melts. About 3 mins.

If you use RAW Shea Butter, there are still bits of shell in it, so once it melts, it will rise to the surface- just skim it off. You can see in my pictures what it looks like.

Add them to the bowl, which has the almond oil in.

Whisk and pop it in the freezer to cool. Now, depending on the size of the batch you make will depend on how long this stage takes. Check after 5 mins, take it out, add your Essential Oils Now and whisk, put it back in the freezer.

Check on it again, take it out and whisk.. The key to this lotion being fluffy .. The whisking part!

Keep checking on it every few minutes now. Once it starts to solidify is when you take it out and whisk it.

Put in back in the freezer... this is the last stage... it will only take a minute or two to be of the right consistency.

 Now its fluffy and looks like ice cream once you have whisked it for the last time

Spoon into your jars.

Decorate your jars. Use them yourself or give as gifts.

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