Bathing in the pantry…

Have you ever considered instead of going out and buying expensive bathing and bath products getting them from your pantry?

One of my hobbies is to make soap and bath items. When making soap and bath items for personal use, most of your ingredients in are your kitchen pantry. Items such as, honey, vanilla, apple cider vinegar, coconut oil, grape seed oil, olive oil, fresh lemons, oatmeal, cornstarch, sugar, salt, coco powder, seeds, cinnamon, baking soda, citric acid (sour salt) and yes even coffee just to name a few. Wow, overwhelming isn’t?

Don’t drink your coffee, wash with it…



If you love the smell of coffee, but can't stand to drink it you will love this.



I am going to show you how to make a sugar scrub, which is perfect for winter dry skin. We are going to need raw sugar, coco powder, coffee grounds, and grape seed oil.Each one of these items are actually great for your skin.

Grape seed oil is the closest oil that matches our natural body oils. This means it will absorb quickly into the skin. Coco powder will actually draw moisture to your skin. Coffee grounds help your skin get rid of radicals. Both coffee grounds and raw sugar is great for exfoliating your skin and leaving it extremely soft.  

Here are your ingredients:

½ cup raw sugar (you can use refined sugar but it doesn’t exfoliate as well)

1 Tablespoon of coco powder

2 Tablespoons of coffee grounds

¼ cup of grape seed oil

   SAFETY WARNING!! This can make your tile or tub slippery, use with caution.  



Dry ingredients



You want to mix all dry ingredients well in a shower proof container. I prefer to recycle the plastic lunchmeat containers.

Mix well




Slowly add oil

 Next, slowly add in your oil, you do not want soup, think paste.




Make sure you mix completely

 













 The sugar mixture should feel dry but look wet.Once all ingredients are blended, cover with a lid until you are ready to use.

When ready, scoop some mixture into your hand and rub on your skin. Even though you can eat this, I would not use this on the face it will be too rough. If you want your scrub to lather, feel free to add your own liquid body wash.

**Useage Tip** If you love to working in the garden, and hate wearing gloves. Mix some liquid soap with the scrub, this will remove dirt and works well if you have a "grease monkey."

SAFETY WARNING!! This can make your tile or tub slippery, use with caution.