Make homemade body scrubs with oil and sugar

by Jen

The Kitchen has some great suggestions on making homemade body scrubs from olive oil and sugar or salt.

Most do-it-yourself recipes call for oil combined with either salt or sugar, resulting in a scrub that sloughs off dead skin cells but still moisturizes. We decided to try olive oil combined with each of these three: brown sugar, granulated sugar, and kosher salt.

As far as measurements, a little trial and error produced the following:

Click over for details on the exact ratio of ingredients.

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Posted in Do It Yourself, Health and Beauty on March 6, 2008
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