Natural Facial Scrubs & Exfoliator Recipes

Homemade scrubs are the easiest natural skin care product to make at home yourself. There are so many natural ingredients that you can use for facial scrubs and body scrubs. Use ground seeds, nuts, powders, sugars, grain powders and more! The grittier the product, the harsher it is on skin. 


Additional ingredients you can add to your scrubs:

• Oatmeal: Great for homemade face masks. Moisturizing. Can be a bit sticky and you must grind it down to a fine dust or it will make a mess.

• Dark brown sugar: Makes a wonderful skin exfoliant and smells great too!

• Salt: The bigger the grain the harsher the scrub. Great healing agents. Be cautious on sensitive skin.

• Baking Soda: Perfect texture for an exfoliant.

• Walnut Shell Powder: natural, gentle exfoliant in face and body scrub products.

• Jojoba Meal is used in cosmetics as a gentle, non-abrasive exfoliant for scrub products. Add jojoba meal to body scrubs, face scrubs, soaps, lip exfoliators etc.  

• Rice bran powder is gently exfoliating and is a old Japanese secret for smooth, soft skin. Rice bran powder is said to prevent wrinkles, quickly heal blemishes, absorb the dirt and oil from the pores, balance the natural oils in the skin, and moisturize. It can be used with clays, nut meals, adzuki bean powder, milk powders, oatmeal, powdered sea vegetables, herbal extracts and herb powders for face mask and body wrap formulations.

• Fruits: Fruits contain Alpha Hydroxy Acids, a natural skin exfoliator. Use the juices.

1. Salt Exfoliate

Ingredients:

1 cup salt, any kind 

1 cup Carrier oil, any kind

1 cup liquid soap

Instructions:

Mix all the ingredients and massage into the skin then rinse well. Salt is natures' healing ingredient for all!

2. Sugar Scrub

Ingredients:

3 Tbl Milk

About 2 cups white sugar

1.5 tsp olive oil

1 Tbl honey

Instructions:

mix all ingredients till it's not runny( more sugar may be needed...apply to dry face, in a circular motion wash off with warm water then cold water pat dry.....Do Not Heat...store in refrigerator.

3. Lemon Sugar Scrub

Ingredients:

juice from 1/2 of a lemon

2 Tbsp table salt

add sugar until thick but not dry

Instructions:

Apply to damp face and let sit 2-3 minutes, then scrub gently using circular motions.Rinse well with warm water Leaves skin smooth and soft, and the lemon helps to "brighten" complexion.For best results, follow with avocado honey moisturizing mask

4. Exfoliation mask 

Ingredients:

baking soda

hydrogen peroxide

water 

Instructions:

Mix into a paste and apply to your skin. Let dry on the skin then wash off with cool water.