Saturday, November 10, 2012

Making Pumpkin Spice Sugar Scrub

Last night me and my BFF Jacque made soap. It was a lot of fun. But while we where waiting for the oils and lye to cool we decided to make use of the time to make some sugar scrub. It was easy to decide on the scent as Jacque's favorite scent/flavor for anything and everything is pumpkin spice. Since fall is the most perfect time for pumpkin spice we got right on it.

We took 2 cups of brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar, 2 tbs cinnamon, 1 tbs powdered ginger, 1 tbs ground cloves and 1 (heaping) tbs nutmeg.



We mixed it all together and made sure to get rid of all the clumps. Then we added 1 cup veggie oil.


We mixed it up really well with a rubber spatula and then spooned it into 2 pint size mason jars. Once in the jars we added 1.5tsp of olive oil to each jar and mixed it in well with a fork.
To make opening the jar easier we glued the top and the ring together to make it one piece. It's cheaper than buying those plastic reusable tops and much prettier.
If you notice your mix looks oilier at the bottom just invert the jar after the next use and keep flipping it back and forth after each use.


It took us all of about 5 minutes and cost us nothing to make because we had everything on hand.
We didn't decorate the jars since they are just for us and won't last long but we've decided it smells so good we'll be making them in 4oz jelly jars to put in our Christmas baskets we give out.
I should add that I'm going for an all handmade Christmas (with the exception of 1 toy each for the girls, we got them Boogie Boards.) But that's a post for later.



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