A body scrub, like this Green Tea Body Scrub, can be a great addition to anyone’s shower. Dead skin can leave you feeling dry, cracked, and the opposite of moisturized. Using a moisturizing sugar scrub in your weekly shower routine can make a difference in rejuvenating your skin naturally. This simple DIY shower scrub is easy to make and offers many benefits to your skin.

How to use a Body Scrub

Using a body scrub is simple and something you can add to your shower routine once or twice a week. The basics are: wash your body, use this DIY green tea body scrub recipe, rinse it off, feel rejuvenated.

Exfoliating is great, taking off dead skin and feeling moisturized again is amazing. However, it can be a little harsh if you’re doing that every day which is why I recommend only exfoliating once or twice a week, this allows your skin to absorb the moisture, I recommend using a body oil or lotion after your shower, before exfoliating again.

This recipe is specifically a green tea body scrub for the body. Although this scrub is fine to be used on the body and face, the skin on our face is a lot more sensitive, and using an exfoliator can be harsh.

Benefits of Matcha for Skin

The green tea body scrub recipe can be made using matcha green tea, or regular green tea. I use matcha green tea when making this exfoliator because I love the benefits of matcha for skin!

Matcha can be great for helping the body absorb oil, you can try this after-shower body oil recipe from my blog here, which allows for the skin to stay moisturized.

Matcha is also known for protecting the skin from UV damage. Although most of us love spending a lot of time out in the sun, that can be damaging to our skin if we spend TOO much time in the sun (no one likes a sunburn, right?). Using this matcha green tea body scrub recipe can help protect your skin from UV damage caused by long sun exposure.

Benefits of Essential Oils for Skin

This DIY body scrub recipe uses an essential oil blend called Soft Skin, which is curated for doing just that. Soft Skin uses oils such as lemon, lavender, frankincense, and more.

According to the Plant Therapy description of this essential oil, “Soft Skin Essential Oil Blend was created to give your thirsty skin some extra help! The essential oils in this blend were specially chosen to help counteract dry skin and to prevent the look of fine lines while supporting and rejuvenating the look of mature skin.”

Many essential oils are packed with vitamin C since they are derived directly from plants. The use of vitamin C on your skin, like with a body scrub, helps reduce signs of aging like fine lines and wrinkles and improves the elasticity of our skin which is how we get that ‘glowing’ look.

Essential Oil Combinations

There are many different essential oil blends you can make to use in this recipe if you don’t have the soft skin essential oil I used.

The most similar blend to the one I used would be:

Another great blend of essential oils is:

You can find a video tutorial for this recipe on my YouTube channel HERE!

Equipment

Mixing Bowl
Spoon
Measuring Cups

Materials

1 Cup Sugar any type is fine although brown sugar might make this recipe have more liquid due to the molasses in it.
3 Packets Matcha Green Tea see notes
10 Drops Soft Skin Essential Oil see notes
⅓ Cup + 1 Tsp Sweet Almond Oil
1 Tablespoon Dried Jasmine optional, see notes

Instructions

Cut open green tea packets and put the contents of the packet into the bowl
Combine the sugar, green tea, dried jasmine, and 10 drops of soft skin essential oil in the bowl
Add in the sweet almond oil
Using your spoon, mix until well combined. The mixture should be coated completely with the sweet almond oil, leaving no dry sugar
Store in an airtight container that can get wet in the shower

Notes

I used matcha green tea packets that are meant for making a cup of tea, you could also use matcha green tea powder (use 3 teaspoons) if you have any on hand. If you don’t have matcha green tea, using normal green tea packets or loose tea would work just the same. Using tea packets or a tea powder works better than loose leaf tea because it has already been ground down to dust. If using a loose leaf tea that has larger pieces, you might want to grind it down first to ensure it will not get stuck in your shower drain.

You can purchase the exact essential oil, soft skin by plant therapy, at this link here. If you do not want to buy this specific oil you can create a blend of rose, lavender, frankincense, and lemon. Although, This oil has a few more unique oils in the blend however the ones I just listed are more common oils that you might already have on hand.

When using dried jasmine be sure to break the flowers apart in your hand before adding them to the bowl so once again, they will not get stuck in your shower drain. Using dried flowers is optional however I do love the added scent with this particular recipe.