Don’t Eat It!
“Bath & Body Works”-type Sugar Scrub
10 Tablespoons white sugar
5 Tablespoons brown sugar
8 Tablespoons sunflower oil
2 Tablespoons golden jojoba oil
1 Tablespoon liquid glycerin
1 Tablespoon favorite fragrance oil or essential oil
Add all of your dry ingredients and blend them well, making sure you remove any clumps. Next add your sunflower oil, golden jojoba oil and liquid glycerin. Stir until you have a consistent blend of oil to sugar.
Last add in your favorite fragrance oil or essential oil (keep in mind that some are stronger than others so you may need to increase or decrease this amount accordingly, in any case start w/ less and add to the blend).
When your sugar scrub is all blended transfer to your air tight containers until you are ready to use. ** the oil will settle at the top of your scrub so just shake it or stir it prior to each use.
Directions:
To use, scoop out a tablespoon or two and start to exfoliate hands, feet,elbows and rough spots, massaging into skin with gentle circular motions. Rinse with warm water.
“Vermont Soap”-type Sugar Scrub Recipe
Ingredients
50 percent white cane sugar (note that organic sucanat, while the best choice for food, doesn’t work as well for this recipe)
50 percent vegetable glycerin to moisten the sugar (I used avocado oil since I was out of vegetable glycerin and it proved to be a successful substitute)
Small amounts of aloe vera gel, vitamin C crystals, or anything healing that dissolves in water
1 or 2 drops of essential oil if desired
Enough ground hibiscus powder for pink color (if desired)
Combine the ingredients in a bowl. Scoop some of the scrub onto your hand and massage gently onto your skin for a minute (the scrub will actually tighten onto your skin like a masque). Leave on for 3 to 4 minutes before rinsing.
You might be surprised to know that there’s quite a number of traditional uses for sugar as well. Often regarded as mere old wives’ tales, the tips below are actually tried and true tested solutions:
- To deal with ants - simply use equal amounts of sugar, water and borax. Soak a few cotton balls in this solution. Place the cotton balls around the house where you have problem areas. The sweet smell of sugar will lure them to the cotton ball and the borax will kill them.
- Keeping cut flowers fresh – adding a tablespoon of sugar to the water in the vase makes flowers look better and accelerates blooming of buds.
- Easing tongue burns – sucking on a small cube of sugar has been known to work wonders with burning sensations.
- Cuts- sprinkle some sugar onto the cut. Sugar holds the same ingredients as germ killers do. These ingredients will infections and also helps speed up the healing process.
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