All things random and beautiful!: Handmade

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Oat & honey facial scrub

I just tried a very simple oat and honey face scrub. I love the fact that you can make it whenever you want with ingredients that are in your kitchen. It costs pennies, leaves your skin feeling fresh and you're not pumping any chemicals into your skin! Perfect! :)

I used:

2 spoons rolled oats (I didn't blitz them in a food processor but it might be a good idea to give it a quick blitz)
2 spoons honey
2 spoons yoghurt

In a bowl, place two spoons of oats.

Then add the honey

And the yoghurt

Mix it all up and you have your scrub!

It is a bit of a messy one to get on - you can't say you haven't been warned, but it leaves your skin feeling lovely and refreshed. The yoghurt will soothe your skin, the oats will gently exfoliate and the honey will moisturise.

Let me know how you like it!

This post is being linked up at:
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Sugar and spice and all things nice!

Just recently I was using varnish on one of my other craft projects and got some of it on my hands, which was a disaster. I didn't have enough nail polish remover at home to get rid of it, so i had to depend on good old google for a solution. Cooking oil & Sugar - said google - and guess what, it worked and not only did it work, but I had the smoothest hands right after! :) So I looked up handscrubs and found loads of them in blogland. This is my version made with whatever I had in the kitchen.

You will need:

White Sugar
Brown Sugar
Olive oil (You could use another cooking oil, like vegetable oil or corn oil)
Lemon zest
Essential oil (you can use whatever scent you like)
A container for the final product (I recycled a scented candle container)

First add equal amounts of white sugar and brown sugar in a bowl and whisk together till all lumps are removed.

Spoon the sugar into the container until about 3/4 full.

Gradually pour in the oil. This step needs to be done slowly. Allow the oil to seep through the sugar and keep adding oil slowly until the sugar is well covered with oil. You want just enough so that its not floating on top.

If you have poured in too much oil, you can top up the sugar now.

Add about 7-8 drops of your essential oil.

I added the zest of a lemon.

Mixed it all up together and ta da! Its ready! Try some now - you won't be disappointed. While sugar is an excellent exfoliant, it can be a bit abrasive, so if you are using on an area other than your hands, please do so carefully as your skin may redden. But you will have wonderfully soft skin after you've used this, as I found out accidentally!!!!