It’s getting stormy and cold out so go take a nice hot shower with this simple homemade essential oil body scrub, you won’t regret it!
Body scrubs can help remove dead cells, unclog pores, increase blood circulation, and give you that pretty glowing skin. It can also make your feel skin soft and silky after using. (I love the feeling!)
I’m off early from work today, so I had to make this Give Thanks Body Scrub (see ingredients below). A little bit of pampering really can really increase my mood. Sometimes we can over commit to work and doing things for others. This month I challenge you to take a step back and reflect on what’s important to you.
Self care. It’s important. We need it. So often we push it to the side because it’s so easy to do so and as caring as a lot of us are it can be hard to say no.
Idk about you, but a little bit of home “spa” day is all I need to get rejuvenated and feel motivated again. Once you take care of yourself, you can then use that energy to take care of others.
According to Dictionary.com the definition of NOURISH is:
- to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- to cherish, foster, keep alive.
- to strengthen, build up, or promote.
So let’s N O U R I S H our bodies with a necessary sugar scrub that will strengthen our minds and cherish our bodies.
I think you should make the gingerbread body scrub today because Christmas = joy, and we can always use a little joy in our lives. I’ve already heard from many friends and family that they are ready to put up their Christmas decorations early this year. We need to grasp onto anything that makes us happy right now in a world of chaos.
So go. Go get your Christmas decorations, hang them early, and then enjoy this body scrub. Have your own holiday spa day and have it alllll to yourself.
Supplies
All you have to do is order a few things off amazon and you’ll be able to put this together in a matter of minutes.
Start out with the sugar (any kind will work- white, brown, etc.). This will be the base of your scrub.
Then you’ll need fractionated coconut oil. But wait, what is fractionated coconut oil?
It’s regular coconut oil that mainly consists of medium-chain fatty acids. In simple terms, the fractionation process removes the long-chain fatty acids which cause the coconut oil to turn solid at colder temperatures. For this scrub, you’ll just want this liquid oil.
I recommend getting this fractionated coconut oil off amazon. It worked perfectly for my body scrub!
Then, drop in your essential oils. I chose to do the Give Thanks blend listed below to represent Thanksgiving. I recommend buying high quality essential oils – my favorite are Young Living.
Lastly, add in a little vanilla extract.
Throw it all in a smaller wide mouth mason jar like this and mix it up.
Feel free to give it away as gifts for Christmas, or just enjoy yourself, because we all deserve a little pampering over the holiday season.
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown or white sugar
- ¼ cup fractionated coconut oil
- Pick your blend of choice:
- Gingerbread: 10 drops ginger essential oil + 3 drops cinnamon essential oil + 3 drops clove essential oil + 3 drops nutmeg essential oil (OR buy this gingerbread essential oil blend and add 10 – 15 drops)
- Vanilla Orange Creamsicle: 6 drops orange essential oil + 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Relaxing Lavender: 7 drops lavender essential oil, 5 drops lemon essential oil
- Pumpkinlicious: 3 drops cinnamon essential oil, 3 drops ginger essential oil, 2 drops nutmeg essential oil, 2 drops cardamom essential oil
- Snickerdoodle: 5 drops stress away essential oil, 3 drops cinnamon essential oil, 2 drops nutmeg essential oil
- Give Thanks: 5 drops Christmas spirit essential oil, 2 drops orange essential oil, 2 drops nutmeg essential oil
- 1/2 teaspoon vitamin E oil (optional)
Directions
- Add all ingredients into a mason jar like this one.
- Mix with a spoon.
- Store away in your bathroom cupboard and take our for spa days or enjoy in the shower daily for up to three months.
Continue on and enjoy your holiday season by making my healthy pumpkin pie!
Or spend the next 30 days reliving what you are thankful for by utilizing my 30 day gratitude fillable PDF sent directly to your inbox! Check out my post here or click the image below for more info.
A registered nurse, certified health coach, and wellness enthusiast.