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5 DIY Sugar Scrubs

Sugar scrubs are one of the easiest beauty products to make at home. These 5 DIY sugar scrubs will bring excitement to your beauty routine. If you deal with dry flaky skin or love to exfoliate your body, these sugar scrubs are for you. 

How to Use Sugar Scrubs

Using a sugar scrub is easy. I like to wash my body with this Green Tea Soap Bar Recipe and then follow up with one of the 5 DIY sugar scrubs. Simply rub the sugar scrub into your skin and rinse it off once you’re done. It is that easy! 

Benefits of Sugar Scrubs

Sugar scrubs can offer many benefits to the skin. The main purpose of a sugar scrub is exfoliation. Exfoliation can help remove any dead skin you may have on your body. Once the dead skin is removed, you will notice a difference in the appearance and texture of your skin. I always feel that my skin is extra soft after using sugar scrubs. This article offers some great in-depth information on the benefits of sugar scrubs for your skin.

Ingredients Needed for Making Sugar Scrubs

Many variations can be made with sugar scrubs, however, the basic main ingredients are:

As long as you have these two main ingredients, there are many fun variations you can make.

Vitamin E oil can be a great addition to sugar scrubs as well. Vitamin E oil is anti-inflammatory and moisturizing so if you deal with something such as a mild case of eczema, adding vitamin E oil into your sugar scrub can be beneficial. According to this article,

“Vitamin E may alleviate the dryness, itching, and flaking associated with eczema, or atopic dermatitis.

One study found that oral vitamin E supplements could produce significant improvements in eczema symptoms. Though vitamin E oil has not been well-studied in the treatment of eczema, it may increase the effectiveness of topical moisturizers.”

Optional Sugar Scrub Ingredients

  • Essential Oils 
  • Dried Flowers
  • Vitamin E Oil 
  • Coconut Milk
  • Goats Milk

When adding liquid ingredients such as coconut milk or goat’s milk, make sure to half the oil content. You can also find a powdered version of coconut milk and goat’s milk.

For example, when making a Goats Milk Sugar Scrub the ratios would be:

If you want another variation of sugar scrubs, I have a Green Tea Body Scrub Recipe you can find right here. 

In this post, I’ll share my favorite 5 DIY Sugar Scrubs variations.

5 DIY Sugar Scrubs

Brown sugar vanilla sugar scrub

Brown Sugar + Vanilla Sugar Scrub:

What You Need:

Instructions: 

Add all of the ingredients to a bowl.

Mix until sugar and oil are completely combined.

How to make coffee sugar scrubs

Coffee Sugar Scrub:

What You Need:

Instructions:

The coffee grounds should be used, so the coffee smell has been released. I like to take my coffee grounds and put them in a jar to dry out for a few hours before using them. 

Add all of the ingredients to a bowl.

Mix until sugar and oil are completely combined.

How to make citrus sugar scrubs

Citrus Sugar Scrub:

What You Need:

Instructions: 

Add all of the ingredients to a bowl.

Mix until sugar and oil are completely combined.

Floral Sugar Scrubs

Floral Sugar Scrub:

What You Need:

Instructions: 

If using dried roses, grind them up fine in a mortar and pestle.

Add all of the ingredients to a bowl.

Mix until sugar and oil are completely combined.

Note: You could use 5 drops of rose essential oil instead of using clary sage essential oil, however, rose essential oil is a bit pricey so I prefer to mix the two essential oils. 

Lavender Sugar Scrubs

Lavender Sugar Scrub:

What You Need:

Instructions: 

If using dried lavender, grind it up fine in a mortar and pestle.

Add all of the ingredients to a bowl.

Mix until sugar and oil are completely combined.

Want More Essential Oil Recipes? Check These Out!

Green Tea Body Scrub Recipe

Green Tea Soap Bar Recipe

Homemade Shampoo Bar Recipe

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4 Ingredient Bath Salt Recipe

Give yourself the gift of relaxation with this amazing lavender rose bath salt recipe. Filled with real dried roses, pure lavender essential oil, and Epsom salt – this bath salt will be sure to help you unwind.

The combination of the ingredients used in this homemade lavender rose bath salt recipe is the perfect trio for relaxation. Make some bath salts, grab your favorite book, and take an amazing bath.

How to Make a Bath Salt Recipe

What You Need:

Directions:

  1. Add the Epsom salt to a clean bowl.
  2. Add the sweet almond oil + essential oils.
  3. Mix the Epsom salt and oils until the Epsom salt has been covered in oil.
  4. Grind the dried flowers in a mortar and pestle until they become fine, you do not want any chunks.
  5. If using dried flowers, add those in mix.

Notes:

If you do not want dried roses in your bath you could simply take those out of the recipe and substitute another 5 drops of rose essential oil.

Benefits of Bath Salts

Rose Petals + Buds:

These beautiful flowers offer many benefits, especially when they are dried. Roses are known to help with stress relief, and headaches, and are oftentimes used as a natural sleep aid due to their relaxing properties. Also, who doesn’t want to take a dried rose petal bath?

Lavender Essential Oil:

We all know lavender as the queen of relaxation, right? Lavender essential oil is a pure condensed form of lavender that is so uniquely versatile. This oil is oftentimes used to help treat anxiety, depression, and overall mood. Lavender is a go-to oil in our house, whether it is diffused or diluted in a bath soak.

According to this article, Lavender essential oil can help with easing anxiety and insomnia.

Epsom Salt:

Epsom salt is essentially magnesium flakes. Magnesium is used primarily for relaxation, mentally and physically. Epsom salt is great for all-over muscle relaxation when used in a bath. Athletes often times soak in Epsom salt baths to recover quickly from an intense workout. A homemade bath soak for sore muscles is the perfect way to finish off a workout!

This article states that Epsom salt is beneficial if you deal with stress, muscle pain, and inflammation.

Bath Salt Recipe vs. Bath Bombs Recipe

There are a few similarities and differences when it comes to choosing if you want to use a bath soak or bath bomb in your bath. The main similarity is that both bath salts and bath bombs use epsom salt. However, the main difference is, that a bath salt recipe is all epsom salt whereas a bath bomb only has a small amount of epsom salt.

Bath bombs are fun to use in the bath, I have an Herbal Bath Bomb recipe on my blog you can check out if you’re interested in making your own. There are a lot of added extra ingredients in a bath bomb to make it fizz + float.

Herbal Bath Bombs

A bath salt recipe is more practical if you’re looking to ease your muscles or any aches and pains you may have.

How to Use Bath Salts

Using a bath soak in your bath is easy.

  • Fill up the bathtub with warm water
  • Add 2 tablespoons of your bath salt recipe
  • swirl the bath soak into the warm water with your hand until the epsom salt dissolves
  • get in and enjoy!
Bath Soak Recipe
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Lavender Rose Bath Salt Recipe

Equipment

  • Mixing Bowl
  • Measuring Cups
  • Spoon

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Add the Epsom salt to a clean bowl
  • Add the sweet almond oil + essential oils
  • Mix the Epsom salt and oils until the Epsom salt has been covered in oil
  • Grind the dried flowers in a mortar and pestle until they become fine, you do not want any chunks.
  • If using dried flowers, add those in and mix.

Notes

  • If you do not want dried roses in your bath you could simply take those out of the recipe and substitute another 5 drops of rose essential oil.
Bath Salt Recipe

Want to make more relaxing recipes? Look at these!

Green Tea Body Scrub

Green Tea Soap Bar Recipe

Sunburn Relief Cream

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The Best Homemade Anti-Aging Eye Cream

You might associate green tea with a nice warm beverage you drink, however, green tea has many benefits for the skin when used topically. This homemade anti-aging eye cream is nourishing, moisturizing, and great for helping prevent wrinkles.

how do you make homemade anti-aging eye cream?

This DIY eye cream recipe is made using 4 simple ingredients:

Green Tea

Shea Butter

Vitamin E Oil

Almond Oil

Essential Oils (optional)

DIY Anti-Aging Eye Cream for Wrinkles and Dark Circles

what does anti-aging eye cream do?

Homemade eye cream is great because you can control what ingredients go into it. When looking at store-bought eye cream, oftentimes some ingredients are nearly impossible to pronounce. Making your own, like with this anti-aging eye cream recipe, you can probably pronounce everything in it because it is made with natural and pure ingredients. Plus, this is the best and easiest homemade eye cream

The main benefit of green tea in an eye cream is minimizing signs of aging. There are many antioxidants present in green tea, even when used topically. According to this article, “Antioxidants help protect the skin from environmental stressors which can damage (skin) leading to common signs of aging.” 

Another wonderful benefit of incorporating green tea into your daily skincare routine is the vitamin C present. Vitamin C in skincare is great for helping to brighten the skin. 

Overall, anti-aging eye cream is a skincare product you should add to your daily routine because it helps moisturize the skin, brighten under-eye circles, and reduce signs of aging like fine lines and wrinkles.

Benefits of Shea Butter on the Skin

Shea butter is an amazing product and has so many benefits for the skin. If you’ve never felt anything made with shea butter before, you’re missing out! Shea butter, once reduced to a liquid state and cooled off back to solid, is creamy like lotion even though it’s just one simple ingredient.

The benefits of shea butter on the skin are it is moisturizing, anti-inflammatory (helpful with reducing skin irritation), and has anti-aging properties.

To read more about the 28 Best Shea Butter Benefits for Skin, Hair, and Health check out this article.

Almond Oil Benefits for Skin

Using almond oil on the skin is great for reducing under-eye puffiness and dark circles. Although you can substitute almond oil for coconut oil in this recipe, almond oil is a great beneficial addition to the anti-aging eye cream recipe.

Vitamin E Oil Under Eyes

Vitamin E oil, when used under the eyes like with my anti-aging green tea under eye cream, can help to lighten dark circles and reduce puffiness due to the anti-inflammatory and moisturizing properties of vitamin E oil.

Essential Oils for Dark Circles

This particular recipe does not include essential oils. Although essential oils can be great for helping reduce the appearance of dark circles, being careful with essential oils near the eyes is crucial. If the oils are properly diluted most people would not have a problem adding essential oils into this recipe for anti-aging eye cream however if you are sensitive to essential oils it is best to omit them from this recipe. It is also important to note that if using essential oils, you want to use extra caution to ensure the eye cream does not go in your eye or it may cause a burning sensation. 

If using essential oils in your DIY anti-aging eye cream for wrinkles and dark circles, you want to choose some that have specific anti-inflammatory properties, here are some great ones for dark circles:

anti-aging eye cream

What You Need to Make the Best Homemade Anti-Aging Eye Cream:

1 Cup Shea Butter

1 Packet Green Tea (see notes)

5 Drops Vitamin E Oil

1 Tbsp Sweet Almond Oil

3 Drops Essential Oil of Choice (optional)

How to Make Anti-Aging Eye Cream:

Create a double boiler, this is just a pot of water filled 1/4 of the way full. Let the water come to a boil and set a glass, heat-safe, bowl on top of the pot. 

Add shea butter into the glass bowl, whisking to ensure it melts. 

Once the shea butter is melted, turn off the heat and add the remaining ingredients. Whisk until fully combined. You want to work quickly on this part so the shea butter does not solidify before transferring the mixture into your eye cream container.

When everything is well mixed, transfer the eye cream into whatever air-tight container you have chosen to use. Let it cool for 2-3 hours until fully set. 

You can use this as a part of your nightly skincare routine!

How to Use Under Eye Cream

Once the anti-aging green tea eye cream is fully set, it is ready to be used. I like to wash my face at night before bed, apply the eye cream under my eyes (where my dark circles are), and leave it on until I wash my face again in the morning.

Be sure not to rub your eyes once the cream is on, the ingredients are natural and safe however it’s not comfortable to get anything in your eyes!

Notes:

I used matcha green tea in my eye cream because that is usually when I have it in my cupboards however what type of green tea you use does not matter, as long as it is green tea without any other teas mixed in. I tested this recipe using brewed green tea and the final product was never set so it is important to use the dried tea inside the packet directly into the eye cream.

If the green tea is a loose-leaf, meaning it hasn’t been ground into a powder, it is best that you grind the tea in a small blender or mortar and pestle, otherwise you will be spreading large chunks of tea onto your face which is no fun!

You will see small flecks of tea in the finished product, even if using a ground green tea powder.

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The Best Homemade Anti-Aging Eye Cream with Green Tea
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The Best Homemade Anti-Aging Eye Cream

Equipment

  • Glass Bowl heat safe
  • Large Pot
  • Small Jar
  • Whisk

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Create a double boiler, this is just a pot of water filled 1/4 of the way full. Let the water come to a boil and set a glass, heat-safe, bowl on top of the pot.
  • Add shea butter into the glass bowl, whisking to ensure it melts.
  • Once the shea butter is melted, turn off the heat and add the remaining ingredients. Whisk until fully combined. You want to work quickly on this part so the shea butter does not solidify before transferring the mixture into your eye cream container.
  • When everything is well mixed, transfer the eye cream into whatever air-tight container you have chosen to use. Let it cool for 2-3 hours until fully set.
  • You can use this as a part of your nightly skincare routine!

Notes

I used matcha green tea in my eye cream because that is usually when I have in my cupboards however what type of green tea you use does not matter, as long as it is green tea without any other teas mixed in. I tested this recipe using brewed green tea and the final product was never set so it is important to use the dried tea inside the packet directly into the eye cream. 
If the green tea is a loose-leaf, meaning it hasn’t been ground into a powder, it is best that you grind the tea in a small blender or mortar and pestle, otherwise you will be spreading large chunks of tea onto your face which is no fun!
You will see small flecks of tea in the finished product, even if using a ground green tea powder.
DIY Anti-Aging Eye Cream for Wrinkles and Dark Circles

Want more green tea recipes? Check these out!

Green Tea Body Scrub Recipe

Green Tea Toner for Glowing Skin

This post may contain affiliate links, I may receive commissions for purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. 

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