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Sugar Body Scrub
Sugar and coconut oil, with a little lavender. For the body, in the shower. The floor gets slippery.
This is how our household cooks, washes, and thinks. It is not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for a midwife or a doctor.
10 minutes · About 1 ¼ cups
“Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people.”
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- ⅓ cup coconut oil, solid or just melted
- 8 drops lavender essential oil
Method
- 1
Stir the sugar and the coconut oil until every grain looks wet. If the coconut oil is hard, warm it only until it softens. Hot oil will melt the sugar into syrup.
- 2
Stir in the lavender when the oil is cool enough to touch. Spoon the scrub into a jar. It does not need to be cooked.
- 3
In the shower, take a small scoop and rub it on wet arms, legs, and feet. Rinse well. Do not use it on the face, and do not use it on broken skin. Sugar is a scrub, not a balm.
- 4
Rinse the floor of the shower. Oil and sugar make it slick.
From the kitchen
- Adult skin. Not in pregnancy, not for children, because of the lavender.
- If you want a family scrub, leave the lavender out. The sugar and coconut oil are the scrub.
- A jar of this does not love a hot bathroom shelf. The oil separates. Stir it before you use it. If it smells sharp or looks moldy, throw it out.
My note
Kept on this device, beside the recipe, for the next time you cook it.
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