Sugar Scrub Recipe

Head to a posh spa and you can treat yourself  to an all-over body scrub with 100$, or you can spend up to $50 on a fancy body scrub.
Why buy when you can make a homemade body scrub out of basic ingredients yourself?
All you need is sugar, body oil and a nice, warm bath. Note: This scrub also works great for the face.

Here’s How to do Sugar Scrub Recipe:

1. Sugar can be gentler on the skin. Just make sure to choose a sugar that has small granules that won’t tear at skin.
A basic sugar works wonderfully. If you have super sensitive skin, you might opt for a dark brown sugar.
2. Choose an oil. You can use baby oil or organic extra virgin coconut oil, sweet almond oil, safflower, vegetable.
You want 1 part oil to 2 parts sugar.
3. Place anywhere from a few tablespoons to a cup of sugar in a container. Place half that amount of oil. Mix with a spoon. Don’t freak out if the sugar settles to the bottom. It’s virtually impossible to keep it mixed.
4. If you want your scrub to smell divine, put 5 drops of an essential oil into your mixture. Mix with spoon. Or do what actress Cate Blanchett does and put in mint and lemon zest. See my list of essential oils.
5. Now onto the bath itself. I find scrubs work best on dry skin. Step into a bath tub and put on loofah mitts. I like the exfoliating gloves that you get in health food stores. They work very well to scrub away the top layer of dead skin cells, leaving your skin feeling super soft. If you don’t have a bath mitt, don’t worry, you can use your hands.
6. Take a spoonful of the mixture into your palms or your gloves and then rub the mixture all over your body in a circular motion. For tougher areas such as the knees, soles and elbows, spend extra scrubbing time or cut a lemon in half, scrubbing your soles, elbows and knees with the lemon.
On places like the chest, neck, and stomach, where the skin is thinner, take it easy with the scrubbing and instead use cleanser on a washcloth to exfoliate. Find out the right way to give yourself a body scrub in The Right Way to Apply a Body Scrub.
7.Once entire body is scrubbed well, rinse thoroughly.
Pat skin dry. You should be good and cleansed. The sugar should have exfoliated your skin nicely with the help of the loofah and the oil should leave skin soft and moisturized. You shouldn’t even need to follow the bath with a moisturizer.
The only bad part about this scrub is the oil can build up on the bathtub bottom.
As Oil you can use The Caudalie, read the article here: Caudalie Experience

Ricetta per lo scrub allo zucchero homemade

Se decidete di andare in una Spa per farvi fare uno scrub non spenderete meno di 100€ e se invece decidete di acquistare uno scrub in un qualsiasi negozio il costo sarà tra i 40 e 50€, una valida alternativa è lo scrub home made. Facile da realizzare in soli 10 minuti.

Come realizzare lo scrub

1. lo zucchero è delicato con la pelle, assicuratevi solamente di utilizzare quello in micro granuli.
2. Scegliete l’olio che fa per voi: va benissimo il baby oil o anche l’olio d’oliva utilizzato in cucina. Potete utilizzare anche un olio essenziale dolce.
Utilizzate un cucchiaio di olio e due di zucchero.
3. Mischiate il cucchiaio di olio con i due di zucchero.
4. Se volete un profumo gradevole aggiungete dell’olio essenziale.
5. Prima di utilizzare il vostro scurb home made bagnate la pelle in modo che sia umida, il risultato su una pelle bagnata è nettamente migliore.
6. Per spalmare lo scrub utilizzate un guanto rigido di crine per migliorare l’esfoliazione.
7. Una volta che lo avete spalmato su tutto il corpo, anche sul viso, dovete risciacquare bene in modo da non lasciare residui.
Se volete un suggerimento sull’olio da utilizzare vi consiglio quello di Caudalie, per saperne di più leggete qui: Caudalie Experience