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Lavender And Rose Salt Scrub

Lavender and Rose Salt Scrub

Lavender And Rose salt ScrubI started a goods exchange group that runs every few months, where we all make something in bulk and swap what we’ve made with the rest of the group, so if ten people sign up, you walk away with nine different things. This month – Friday, in fact – our theme is ‘Love Your Body’ to fit in with Valentine’s day and I’ve made Lavender and Rose Salt Scrub.

While I’m putting amounts and instructions down, it’s really pretty impossible to get wrong. I found that even leaving the oil to infuse for a few days didn’t really take on any of the aroma from the lavender or rose petals, so I added an essential oil called “Love in Life” from a tiny shop in France. I cant find it online, sadly, as it is amazing, but it has beautiful rose undertones.

Lavender And Rose Salt Scrub
Recipe Type: Bath Products
Author: Luschka
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Serves: 500ml
A beautiful, pampering, exfoliating body scrub.
Ingredients
  • 1 cup/230g organic rock salt (not fine salt and definitely not table salt)
  • 1 cup/215g sweet almond oil
  • 2 tablespoons lavender leaves (dried)
  • 2 tablespoons rose petals (dried)
  • 6 – 12 drops rose/lavender essential oil
Instructions
  1. (If you are using rock salt,whiz it up in a food processor for a few seconds. You don’t want it to be fine salt, but not big crystals either.)
  2. Add all the ingredients to a bowl, and gently mix till it’s well incorporated.
  3. Pour into a jar (I use two 250ml jars)
  4. Use when bathing for glowing skin.

 

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Peppermint Salt Scrub Recipe

peppermintI really love this Peppermint Salt Scrub for being both refreshing and having only a few ingredients, all of which you can find in your kitchen, and with names you can pronounce, like… salt… and oil. Now, if you have a sensitive skin you may want to test a patch of this Peppermint Salt Scrub first, as it can dry the skin out a little (although the oil should balance that out for normal skins). You should use it as a body scrub, but salt crystal are probably a bit harsh on the face.

A salt scrub is deliciously soothing, and will leave your skin titillating and radiant looking.

Sweet Almond oil has calming and anti-inflammatory has calming and anti-inflammatory properties, it moisturises, restores and softens skin.

Peppermint essential oil is used to relieve skin irritation and itchiness and also helps to reduce skin redness, where inflammation is present. It is used for dermatitis, acne, ringworm, scabies and also relieves itching, sunburn and inflammation of the skin, while at the same time having a cooling action. Peppermint oil should be used sparingly in pregnancy, when breastfeeding or on children under 7.

I was making this for Christmas, so wanted to make a candy cane effect you often see in DIY products on Pinterest, but I didn’t see the point in using organic salt, peppermint essential oil and an organic sweet almond oil, and then add a red food colouring… so I used dehydrated beetroot instead. This is non-essential. You can leave it white. Or you can make it all coloured, nice and pink for Valentine’s day would be good.

Peppermint Salt Scrub
Recipe Type: Beauty
Cuisine: Non-Food
Author: Luschka
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Serves: 1 cup
A quick and easy DIY beauty product, a very simple gift, and a lovely way to pamper without the chemicals or great expense
Ingredients
  • 1 cup organic rock salt (not fine salt and definitely not table salt)
  • 1 cup sweet almond oil
  • 6 drops peppermint essential oil
  • Optional dried beetroot powder to colour
Instructions
  1. Add all the ingredients to a bowl.
  2. Mix
  3. (If you are doing layers, halve the mix, add the beetroot and mix again. Dish tablespoonsfull into the container, alternating white and pink/red)
  4. Scoop into a clean glass container.
In the Thermomix:
  1. Put everything in the bowl
  2. Speed 2/Reverse/ 30 seconds
  3. (If you are doing layers, halve the mix, add the beetroot and mix again. Dish tablespoonsfull into the container, alternating white and pink/red)
  4. Scoop into a clean glass container.