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As most of you know I co-hosted my best friends bridal shower last weekend. I posted about the Burlap Wrapped Mason Jars the other day, and today I’m excited to share the DIY beauty product I made!
I volunteered to take care of the bridal shower favors for all of the guest since I wanted something that would tie into our theme and also something that was memorable and that people would use. That’s when I remembered seeing a recipe for a sugar scrub in my favorite craft book, Mark Montano’s Big Ass Book of Crafts. If you don’t own this book–you need to go buy it ASAP. He gives so many great ideas as to craft projects you can make from gift giving to home decor. And did you know that Mark Montano has a blog! I also follow him on Twitter and every now and then exchange tweets back and forth (and then I become giddy because THE Mark Montano talked to little ol’ me)! I recognize that I’m a bit of dork and I’m totally ok with that. I know you have craft idols too. One of mine just happens to be, Mark Montano, and hopefully I’ll get to meet him one of these years! I digress, I remembered seeing multiple DIY hygene tutorials in his book that I immediately grabbed it and flipped to the chapter. That’s when I saw the Lemon Tea Sugar Scrub (that I bookmarked a few years ago in hopes I’d make it one day). I figured this would be the most practical bridal shower favor and best of all something that I think everyone would use.
Adapted from: Mark Montano’s Big Ass Book of Crafts
Servings: 5 one-cup containters
Ingredients:
5 cups Sugar
1 cup Epsom Salt
1 cup Lemon Oil
1/3 cup Honey
15 packages of Green Tea
5 Lemons, Zested
Juice of 1/2 a lemon
Measuring Cups – Soft Spatula – Juicer – Grater
Container for Storage – Twine – Label
1. In a large mixing bowl add 5 cups of sugar, 1 cup Epsom salt, 1/3 cup of honey, and 1 cup lemon oil. Mix well until sugar/salt mixture is moist.
2. Next, zest 5 lemons into the sugar/salt mixture.
3. Next, begin breaking open 15 green tea bags and adding them to the sugar mixture.
*This is what your scrub should look like.
4. Next, juice a half of one lemon and add it to the sugar scrub mixture.
5. Mix well so that everything is incorporated.
6. Once everything is incorporated I washed the jars, dried them, and created a paper funnel to scoop 1 cup servings of the sugar scrub into the jars. (not pictured) Once the sugar scrub is in the jar tie twine around the top and adorn with a paper tag.
Here is what my finished product looked like.
Everyone including the bride were smitten over this homemade beauty product. I also included the ingredients on the back of the tag so others can make more if they wish to do so.
This is so cute! What a great idea for favors, and I would LOVE to receive one.
Thanks! I know I love this sugar scrub!!!
super fun idea. I can think of lots of people that would love this…what a sweet gift this would make and so organic. TFS
xo
tina
mommy scraps alot
That is such a cute bridal shower gift idea! Are there any left over?!
xoxo!
Vanessa
Love this!!
Is it for feet? It seems way too rough to be for your face….
I’ve never used it on my face (only because my face is super sensitive), but I have used the scrub all over my body and it worked wonderfully!
This is just wonderful! You rocked it. Dare I say you made it better than I ever could. Big hugs and THANK YOU for the shout out. Mark
Awe, thanks Mark! Everyone beyond LOVED these DIY beauty favors! Thank you for the awesome recipe!
This sounds like a great ‘recipe’….I’m wondering about the olive oil that is shown in the pictures.. Was it left out intentionally?? Just wondering before I round up these ingredients! Thanks for posting this great idea!!
Mark’s recipe calls for olive oil. I used lemon oil instead. You can use either or half and half and the scrub will still turn out the same. I know lemon oil is a premium item and you’ll have to go to a speciality food store, like Whole Foods to buy it. It’s also about $6 a bottle. Not sure if you really want to shell out the bucks for it.
How many containers did one batch make?
I thought I included that in the post–must go edit now. This will give you 5 one-cup servings.
I’m making one of this! Oh how I love the idea of a homemade scrub. Love, love, love!
Annabella Merlin
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What a lovely idea! I know my secret sister would love to have this as a gift
Thank you for sharing!
This scrub is amazing–anyone would love to get this as a gift! Thanks for stopping by.
Where did you find these jars from? I know you said the other ones were from Walmart…
Thanks – love this idea!!!
I bought the sealed jars from Old Time Pottery for $1.33 each. Hope that helps!
Thank you!
I was wondering if I could use avocado oil? Also, what would you say the shelf life is? I want to make these as a favor for my sisters shower! Love this idea!
Hmmm not sure about avocado since it begins to brown as soon as it is exposed to air. I still have some of my sugar scrub and I made it back at the beginning of February–so with this recipe I would say its good for 3 months. Although if it sits for a while the oil and honey will separate toward the bottom. IN that case you just need to remix it.
I love the idea. I was wondering if this could be done with orange instead of lemon.
Thank you so much, Rita
Hi Rita, thanks for stopping by. I’m sure you could do orange instead. I would look at a speciality food store to see if they have an orange flavored oil to add instead of the lemon scented/flavored oil.