A short DIY YouTube demonstration by Jessie Greenfield showing how to make a homemade sugar body scrub intended as a personal-use item or holiday gift. Ingredients include zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange, minced crystallized ginger, milled oats, 1.5 cups organic sugar, lemongrass essential oil, sweet almond (carrier) oil, and raw honey. Procedure: mix zests, ginger, oats into sugar; pack into jars; add 1/2 cup carrier oil, ~45 drops essential oil, and 2 tablespoons warmed raw honey; stir, cap, shake, and let sit about a week to meld aroma before use or gifting. The presenter also explains why sweet almond oil is preferred and comments on moisturizing properties of honey.
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1.5 cups (a cup and a half) organic sugar.
Zest of one lemon and one orange.
1/2 cup of sweet almond (carrier) oil.
45 drops of lemongrass essential oil (as stated).
About 2 tablespoons of raw/local honey (warmed to incorporate).
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Hi, this is Jessie Greenfield, and I am actually going to be making some sugar scrubs for some of the women in my family for Christmas. So I'm going to show you how to do that. Okay, so here we have is a zest of one lemon and one orange.
We have some minced, crystallized ginger cut up real tiny. Then I have some.
Milled oats.
They're not chopped up too much because you don't want to turn into a paste, but they're chopped up enough where they're not going to be like these giant flakes of oatmeal. And then I have a cup and a half of organic sugar. I have some lemongrass essential oil.
And then I have sweet almond oil, which is a great oil to use for making body products, because sweet almond oil is one of the better absorbed oils by the skin. If you notice, if you put vegetable oil on your hand, it doesn't really sink in very well. Things like coconut oil do a lot better for absorbing into the skin. And sweet almond oil, olive oil does a pretty good job, too. But sweet almond oils is one of my favorites. I use it for a lot of body products.
So those are basically the ingredients. So what we're going to do is we're going to throw in our zests into the sugar, we're going to throw in the ginger.
We'Re going to throw in the oats.
And we're gonna give it a good toss, make sure it gets all incorporated in there and looking good.
Okay, so the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take this jar, and I'm just going to kind of take one of the cups that I had earlier and just.
Scoop it in the jar without making a huge mess.
Because sugar is never fun to clean up, ever, especially off the floor.
Okay.
We have the dry ingredients in there, and then what we're going to do is we're going to take a.
A half a cup of oil.
Throw it in there.
And then we're going to put in 45 drops of this wonderful stuff. It.
Okay. Yeah. I would have talked to you, but then I would have lost count. Sorry.
Okay. And last but not least, an ingredient that I forgot to mention, but remember the last minute is.
Is honey. Honey has great moisturizing properties, especially raw honey. This is raw honey. This is local raw honey. And, like, if you ever have chapped lips or even people do, like, honey masks on their face, they warm the honey and they put it on their face and leave it there for 20 minutes. It does wonders in moisturizing your skin. It's a great moisturizing product in a lot of, like, things. Like you see Burt's beeswax products and stuff like that. They use a lot of beeswax in their. In their cosmetics and, you know, lotions and stuff like that. And that's what gives it a really good moisturizing properties. So I actually need to warm this up a little bit so it incorporates in here. So I'm just gonna tell you it's two tablespoons of the honey, and if I had it warmed, I would have poured it in there right there. But we're gonna kind of do this without it for right now. So then I'm gonna take my pork and I'm just gonna give it a good stir. Try and get the stuff at the bottom. Okay. So we just got done kind of stirring the stuff in, and meanwhile, I had some honey going, so. So I'm gonna pour that in there right now. And there we go. So there's about two tablespoons of honey there. You can almost eat this stuff. Actually, you could, and nothing would be wrong with you. So I wouldn't suggest it, though. It probably doesn't taste that great, but it smells amazing. I can smell it right now. So after you get this all incorporated like this, and then you put the lid on, give it a good shake.
Okay. There we go. There it is. So this is gonna sit for about a week, and then it will be ready to be used or canned and give as a gift.
Because it needs to, like, incorporate all the smells and stuff like that. So it's absolutely incredible when the person uses it. It smells good now, but it'll be even better in a week.
So this is a gift that you can give over the holidays or just for yourself. I use this stuff. It's amazing in the morning. It'. Invigorating. The smell of the ginger and the citrus is absolutely wonderful and a great way to wake up.
But yeah, it's something that you can give as a gift and not feel bad about because this has got some amazing ingredients. This is going to be better than anything you can really buy in the store because these scrubs generally run from anywhere from 15 to, I would say, $50, so depending on what product you buy. And this probably only cost us about five bucks, if that to make. So. And it makes about two batches. So you can get two batches for out of this. Yeah. So give this as a gift. It's great. It's wonderful. Or use it yourself. Thanks for watching. Bye.
