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DIY Sugar Scrub Mandarin Orange Cocoa Anti-Aging

January 2, 2020

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I’ve recently gotten into essential oils and homemade DIY sugar scrubs for the skin. It’s so much fun to make and use sugar scrubs. I love the ability to use natural ingredients on my skin to make it feel and look amazing. I love this recipe because it uses natural ingredients to create a luxurious and exfoliating skin scrub, plus the cocoa has anti-aging benefits. The orange and cocoa aromas make this scrub a delicious treat to pamper yourself with when getting clean. Scroll on to see how to make this easy DIY sugar scrub.

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DIY Sugar Scrub Mandarin Orange Coca anti-asging easy to make recipe

 

 

 

As an affiliate with Simply Earth, I’m privy to their tips on how to make a good skin scrub. I followed their basic formula and came up with an awesome DIY sugar scrub I totally love. This skin scrub allows me to pamper myself and enjoy a very luxurious shower. I love how this skin scrub makes my skin feel while in the shower, the aromas I enjoy while using it, and I adore how soft it leaves my skin. I don’t know what is recommended, but I’ve used this scrub for three to four days in a row without a problem. Today I used it again and my skin feels so amazing! What a glorious shower I when I use this scrub:)

This scrub feels awesome to hand scrub into your skin and the aroma is just delicious amazing. YUM! After I use the skin scrub, I always smell my skin and keep touching it because it’s just so wonderfully soft and scrumptious smelling after using it. It’s a true treat!

 

DIY Sugar Scrub Mandarin Orange Cocoa anti-aging skin scrubs

 

DIY sugar scrub for exfoliating body skin

 

 

 

5 Ingredients Needed for the DIY Sugar Scrub

The ingredients needed to make this recipe are all normal household food products plus two essential oils. The cocoa powder helps prevent the signs of aging, plus it makes the scrub smell wonderful. The essential oils used are mandarin and orange so the delicious smell the scrub gives off is a yummy chocolate orange aroma. It smells good enough to eat, but don’t eat it! LOL!

The ingredients are common and cheap. When you buy an essential oil bottle, it will last for a very long time as you only use a small number of drops at a time. So, this scrub is pretty cheap to make.

  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 2 Tbsp. cocoa, 100% unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 8 drops Mandarin essential oil
  • 15 drops orange essential oil

 

Directions:

Combine the sugar, olive oil, and cocoa powder in a bowl and stir. Add the mandarin essential oil drops and orange essential oil drops and stir. It will separate, just stir it before using it each time.

Do not allow water to fall into the scrub as this will dissolve the sugar and wreck it. I set the bowl just outside the door shower on the floor where water spray can’t reach it when using it in the shower.  To prevent my fingers from adding water, I dry my hands on the towel I hang on the shower door, then use a spoon to scoop some scrub out and drop the dollop on my hand. I just do this several times in a row as I’m coating my body so that I can get enough to scrub all over with it.

Using it in the bath is easier obviously as the bowl is easily kept more separate from the water in a bath setting.

I keep the sugar scrub on my bathroom counter in a covered ceramic pot. Keeping it the bathroom is helpful because then it’s easy to remember to use it because it’s already there. I’m not sure what the shelf life is, but I tend to use it all up within five days or so within making it.

It looks like sludge-slop, but it’s really very amazing! Amazing feeling, smelling, and scrubbing…

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Ingredients:


Ghirardelli Chocolate Unsweetened Cocoa Pouch, 8 Ounce

Colavita Extra Virgin Olive Oil, First Cold Pressed, (2 Liters) 68 Fl Oz (Pack of 1)

 


C&H, Cane Sugar, Granulated White, 4 Pound Bag (Pack of 2)

 

Self-Care Time with a DIY Sugar Scrub

This scrub is perfect for some pampering self-care time. Taking the time to make it is the easy part as it’s so quick to make, and it’s totally worth the effort to give yourself a luxurious bath or shower time. I find taking a few extra minutes to really scrub my skin with this skin scrub in the shower is both invigorating and relaxing. It’s a delicious way to pamper your senses, your skin, and your emotions, and all because you took a few extra minutes to make yourself and your skin feel good. That’s totally worth it! Mini moments of self-care are what we all need as busy moms and women. Take it and enjoy it when you can!

Looking for more self-care ideas for busy moms and women? Check out 12 Tips for Moms and Women to find time for self-care and pampering.

 

 

 

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I sincerely hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do! It’s super important to take even a few moments to indulge yourself in self-care, it will benefit you in so many ways in relaxation, stress reduction, and enjoyment of the simple things in life.

 

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Check out my recipe for Pumpkin Coffee Scrub for exfoliating skin.

 

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