I love cosmetics, love the luxury of breaking routine and having a nice scrub. So much out there that sounds nice- even when so called organic- has stuff with names I can barely pronounce! So I have decided to make my own….technically if you can eat it I will put it in my skin!

Salt scrub/ bath salts

This is multi purpose and cheap!! Can be used on dry skin standing in the shower without water. Scrub all over your body and then just shower off or- can be thrown straight in the bath for a wonderful soak. You can also use any scent you like. This is just one I blended for Christmas pressies- I will be blending a big batch when I’m back plain so I can then add smells as I like to each bath!

(For a bigger batch just multiply each value)

1 cup Epsom salts
1cup of sea salt
Enough olive and sweet almond oil to bind them (maybe 1/2 cup)
Essential oils- I used vanilla, cinnamon, ylang ylang and lavender.

Mix and I store them in ziplock bags I recycle but some nice glass jars would look nicer in the bathroom- jam jars would work just as well too!!

Coffee scrub

I hate waste and throwing things away so when I make my coffee concentrate (here) or from the hubbys coffee machine. I dry out the grains and that’s what I use for this really invigorating coffee scrub.

1 cup coffee grains
1 cup sugar (I use organic brown sugar as its a bit softer)
2 tbs cinnamon
1 tbs nutmeg
vanilla essence (i use medicine flowers- couple if drops)
Enough olive oil to bind it and make it a bit wet (about 1/2 cup)

Again use dry in the shower then just rinse it off. Sustainable, what you have in the cupboards and reducing your chemical impact on your body and in the water system!