Welcome to my first HOW TO Basic Beauty DIY post!

It was about time we got down to basics.
I love a challenge and I love interesting, out of the box DIYs. But I remember when I took my first steps into Beauty DIYing. I wasn’t interested that much in butters, clays and herbs. I wanted to start at the beginning.

In this first post I give you all the instructions I feel you need to make a perfect DIY Body Scrub. With a few examples to get started.

1. Choose a scrubber

• White Sugar
• Brown Sugar
• Fine Salt (Like My Rub Shower Scrub)
• Sea Salt
• Oatmeal – for a very gentle scrub, ideal if you have eczema or psoriasis
• Himalayan salt – because it looks fancy
• Dead sea salt
• Coffee Grounds – used ones work too, but make sure to use your scrub right away
• …

2. Choose your oil

• Olive oil – cheap and dang effective
• Coconut oil – double dang effective and my personal favorite
• Jojoba oil – for every skin type
• Almond oil – great for dry skin
• Grape Seed oil – doesn’t leave a greasy feel
• Avocado oil – great for dry skin
• …

3. Add extra goodies

Add extra goodies to your scrub: the possibilities are endless!

• Honey
• Shea butter
• Lemon or lime juice (Like my Virgin Mojito Scrub)
• Dried spices – 1 teaspoon or less is usually enough for 1 cup of scrub
• Dried herbs – like lavender or chamomile buds
• Organic fruit zest – all the yucky pesticides stick to the peel so make sure to use organic
• (Bees)wax
• Essential oils – a few drops in total are enough, choose different essential oils for the beauty flaw(s) you want to tackle
• …

Mix and match

Two parts of ‘dry’ ingredients for 1 part of ‘wet’ ingredients is a good rule of thumb. Use your scrubber(s) and oil(s) as your base. Add more of one or the other if you want your scrub to be more ‘solid’/’liquid’ (My Body Scrub vocabulary isn’t very good…).

Add an extra ingredient in there. It doesn’t only make your scrub look more fancy. It also makes it even more effective. Usually 1 tablespoon or even 1 teaspoon is enough. Always use your common sense when mixing and matching. And always test your new recipe first!

Let’s get started!

Coffee and Coconut Oil Scrub:

Fight Keratosis Pilaris and Cellulite at the same time with this easy scrub. Bonus: add 1 teaspoon of cinnamon to improve your blood circulation and make it even more effective!

Coconut oil, Lime juice and Peppermint essential oil Scrub:

This refreshing Body Scrub turns every shower into a vacation. Close your eyes, start scrubbing, can you hear the sea yet?

Fine Salt, Coconut Oil and Lemon juice:

The fine grains make it an ideal scrub for smooth skin. Don’t use it when you have any open scrapes or cuts, though!