4 Simple Scrubs to Use or Gift All Season Long


Even your most luminous pumpkin spice candle doesn’t glow quite as bright as your skin after it has been treated to a luxurious round of exfoliation. Treat yourself or gift your loved ones with these simple at-home scrub recipes.

Rough Day Reset

• 1 cup baking soda
• 1 cup charcoal
• 1 handful lavender buds

Why Use Sugar Scrub?

Taking time out from mom-life to take care of ourselves isn’t always easy, but let’s face it… skin needs TLC to stay healthy. Switching to more natural cosmetics and beauty products may mean leaving some of your favorite products behind.

Not to worry! In my experience a natural skin care regime can work even better (and certainly is better for you). In many ways natural beauty products have simplified my routine since I can mix up what I need with simple ingredients I already have on hand.

Here’s the highlights of my skin care routine these days:

Dry brush before showering (here’s how to do it)

Exfoliate and moisturize with a sugar scrub in the shower

Apply a natural lotion post-shower

Oil cleanse my face, adding a facial sugar scrub once or twice a week for exfoliation

Finish with a quality nourishing face serum (this one is my absolute favorite)

I make up for the money I invest in a few high-quality store-bought beauty products by making the rest myself at home. Sugar scrub is so easy and fun to make, it’s one item I’ll never buy.

Sugar scrubs also make a great DIY gift idea! Just put them in a cute mason jar and apply a decorative label or tag. Now you have a pampering and practical gift for an expecting/new mom, or for Christmas gifts or Mother’s Day gifts!


Pumpkin Pie

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 cup coconut oil

DIY Sugar Scrub Recipe

Simple Sugar Scrub RecipeThis is the perfect recipe for beauty DIY beginners. Sugar scrubs take under ten minutes to make and you can have fun customizing them with endless ingredients for your desired outcome.


Sugar Scrub Ingredients

1 cup granulated sugar, either white or brown, preferably organic

½ cup oil (olive oil and coconut oil work great)

essential oils of your preference (optional)

1 small wide-mouth glass mason jar

How to Make It

Mix all ingredients and store in an airtight container, such as a mason jar.

Use 1 tablespoon as needed in the shower. Scrub skin with the mixture and rinse will. It will leave your skin feeling like silk. Goodbye dry skin!

Sound simple? It is!


Sugar Scrub Variations

Ready to mix it up? Change your sugar scrub to suit the season. All of these variations use simple ingredients found at most grocery stores.


Pumpkin Pie Scrub: 1 cup of brown sugar, ½ cup coconut oil, ½ tsp vitamin E oil, and ½ tsp pumpkin pie spice (or just ½ tsp cinnamon)

Vanilla Brown Sugar Scrub: 1 cup brown sugar, ½ cup almond oil, ½ tsp vitamin E oil and 1 tsp real vanilla extract

Lemon Sugar Scrub:  Great hand scrub for after washing dishes! 1 cup white sugar, ½ cup olive oil, ½ tsp vitamin E oil, 15-20 drops (or more) of lemon or orange essential oil

Gentle Lavender Sugar Scrub for Face: 1 cup white sugar, ½ cup almond oil, ½ tsp vitamin E oil, ½ tsp real vanilla extract, and 15 drops lavender essential oil. Or make this gentler oatmeal version.

Vanilla Latte Sugar Scrub: Need I say more? Seriously… make sure you have coffee on hand to make a vanilla latte because it will have you craving the real thing. Find the recipe here.

Sugar Cookie Lip Scrub: Better than lip balm, in my opinion, since it exfoliates and moisturizes in one step. Here’s the recipe.

Homemade Foot Scrub with Magnesium: Perfect for pedicure season, this foot scrub is therapeutic as well with the addition of magnesium.

Cumin Sugar Scrub for Face or Body: Not all sugar scrubs have to smell like dessert. This more exotic scrub is packed with antioxidants for glowing skin.

Himalayan Salt Scrub: Salt is typically coarser than sugar and slower to dissolve, which makes this salt-based scrub recipe great for heavy-duty exfoliation. (If you have sensitive skin, stick to sugar scrubs.)

Sugar Scrub Cubes:  Make this cute and compact version of sugar scrub in single-use cubes. No mess and you can even make them colored with purifying French rose clay. Here’s how to make them.


How to Store

These last on the counter for up to 2 months (or more). Take care that extra water doesn’t get into the scrub when you use it as it won’t last as long or work as well.

One warning: these smell good enough to eat! Actually, they are good enough to eat, but don’t… sugar is bad for your intestines!

Citrus Wake Up

• 1 cup epsom salt
• 1/4 cup grapefruit
• 1/2 cup honey

Birthday Cake

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. cosmetic mica
• 1 cup coconut oil

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4 Simple Scrubs to Use or Gift All Season Long


4 Simple Scrubs to Use or Gift All Season Long


Even your most luminous pumpkin spice candle doesn’t glow quite as bright as your skin after it has been treated to a luxurious round of exfoliation. Treat yourself or gift your loved ones with these simple at-home scrub recipes.

Rough Day Reset

• 1 cup baking soda
• 1 cup charcoal
• 1 handful lavender buds

Why Use Sugar Scrub?

Taking time out from mom-life to take care of ourselves isn’t always easy, but let’s face it… skin needs TLC to stay healthy. Switching to more natural cosmetics and beauty products may mean leaving some of your favorite products behind.

Not to worry! In my experience a natural skin care regime can work even better (and certainly is better for you). In many ways natural beauty products have simplified my routine since I can mix up what I need with simple ingredients I already have on hand.

Here’s the highlights of my skin care routine these days:

Dry brush before showering (here’s how to do it)

Exfoliate and moisturize with a sugar scrub in the shower

Apply a natural lotion post-shower

Oil cleanse my face, adding a facial sugar scrub once or twice a week for exfoliation

Finish with a quality nourishing face serum (this one is my absolute favorite)

I make up for the money I invest in a few high-quality store-bought beauty products by making the rest myself at home. Sugar scrub is so easy and fun to make, it’s one item I’ll never buy.

Sugar scrubs also make a great DIY gift idea! Just put them in a cute mason jar and apply a decorative label or tag. Now you have a pampering and practical gift for an expecting/new mom, or for Christmas gifts or Mother’s Day gifts!


Pumpkin Pie

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 cup coconut oil

DIY Sugar Scrub Recipe

Simple Sugar Scrub RecipeThis is the perfect recipe for beauty DIY beginners. Sugar scrubs take under ten minutes to make and you can have fun customizing them with endless ingredients for your desired outcome.


Sugar Scrub Ingredients

1 cup granulated sugar, either white or brown, preferably organic

½ cup oil (olive oil and coconut oil work great)

essential oils of your preference (optional)

1 small wide-mouth glass mason jar

How to Make It

Mix all ingredients and store in an airtight container, such as a mason jar.

Use 1 tablespoon as needed in the shower. Scrub skin with the mixture and rinse will. It will leave your skin feeling like silk. Goodbye dry skin!

Sound simple? It is!


Sugar Scrub Variations

Ready to mix it up? Change your sugar scrub to suit the season. All of these variations use simple ingredients found at most grocery stores.


Pumpkin Pie Scrub: 1 cup of brown sugar, ½ cup coconut oil, ½ tsp vitamin E oil, and ½ tsp pumpkin pie spice (or just ½ tsp cinnamon)

Vanilla Brown Sugar Scrub: 1 cup brown sugar, ½ cup almond oil, ½ tsp vitamin E oil and 1 tsp real vanilla extract

Lemon Sugar Scrub:  Great hand scrub for after washing dishes! 1 cup white sugar, ½ cup olive oil, ½ tsp vitamin E oil, 15-20 drops (or more) of lemon or orange essential oil

Gentle Lavender Sugar Scrub for Face: 1 cup white sugar, ½ cup almond oil, ½ tsp vitamin E oil, ½ tsp real vanilla extract, and 15 drops lavender essential oil. Or make this gentler oatmeal version.

Vanilla Latte Sugar Scrub: Need I say more? Seriously… make sure you have coffee on hand to make a vanilla latte because it will have you craving the real thing. Find the recipe here.

Sugar Cookie Lip Scrub: Better than lip balm, in my opinion, since it exfoliates and moisturizes in one step. Here’s the recipe.

Homemade Foot Scrub with Magnesium: Perfect for pedicure season, this foot scrub is therapeutic as well with the addition of magnesium.

Cumin Sugar Scrub for Face or Body: Not all sugar scrubs have to smell like dessert. This more exotic scrub is packed with antioxidants for glowing skin.

Himalayan Salt Scrub: Salt is typically coarser than sugar and slower to dissolve, which makes this salt-based scrub recipe great for heavy-duty exfoliation. (If you have sensitive skin, stick to sugar scrubs.)

Sugar Scrub Cubes:  Make this cute and compact version of sugar scrub in single-use cubes. No mess and you can even make them colored with purifying French rose clay. Here’s how to make them.


How to Store

These last on the counter for up to 2 months (or more). Take care that extra water doesn’t get into the scrub when you use it as it won’t last as long or work as well.

One warning: these smell good enough to eat! Actually, they are good enough to eat, but don’t… sugar is bad for your intestines!

Citrus Wake Up

• 1 cup epsom salt
• 1/4 cup grapefruit
• 1/2 cup honey

Birthday Cake

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. cosmetic mica
• 1 cup coconut oil

Searches related to 4 Simple Scrubs to Use or Gift All Season Long

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sugar scrub recipe
homemade sugar scrub shelf life
peppermint sugar scrub
how to use peppermint sugar scrub
whipped sugar scrub recipe
how to use sugar scrub
8 oz sugar scrub recipe

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