Making Body Scrubs from Lisa's Cupboard

After looking at Lisa’s ingredients, I decided that I wanted to start with making a body scrub. I (virtually) raided both her kitchen and soap making cupboards for this recipe, but I think this is a fabulous scrub. It does have a higher percentage of oils, so if you prefer a scrub that has less oil I would recommend reducing the oils and increasing the sugar or salt. Let’s head off to the blog kitchen and have fun!

Collect needed items:

Recipe:

Before making the scrub, you should make your oat flour. This can be done by grinding dry oats in a food processor or blender. In this scrub I used a fine oat flour that I had made for adding to soap. The oats add a great skin soothing quality to this scrub.

Weigh the liquid ingredients into the mixing container. With recipes that you weigh like this, I like to add my fragrance oil, extracts and preservative to the fixed oils before I add the dry ingredients. Now, add the salt and sugar and stir well. Once the mixture is completely blended, slowly add the oat flour and stir until all the clumps of oat flour have been broken. Fill containers with mixed scrub. Stir the scrub mixture frequently while filling the jars to keep an evenly filled jar.

Yield: This recipe will fill 2 of the 16 oz Clear Deep Jars, 4 of the 8 oz Clear Low Profile Jars OR 30 of the 1 oz Jar Sets.

Notes: If you don’t want to use the Optiphen as a preservative, LiquaPar is the other preservative we would recommend for this recipe. If you want to make a single time use scrub, then a preservative is not necessary. We do recommend using a preservative if you will be selling or giving this scrub away to help prevent yeast, mold and/or bacteria.

While Lisa’s cupboard contains Jojoba, I wanted to show that you could use another oil while Jojoba prices are so high. I used Fractionated Coconut Oil instead for this recipe since these two oils have very similar textures in a scrub.

Enjoy!