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Easy Homemade Brown Sugar Scrub Bars

By Jody Smith

Time for Spring, which means all things need to be renewed and freshened up. Make sure your skin gets special treatment too with some frugal homemade beauty products. These Homemade Brown Sugar Scrub Bars are a great way to soften and scent the skin- leaving it glowing for hot weather clothes. Much like traditional body scrubs but in a more solid form, you use these in the shower to slough off dead skin, leaving behind a great smell and moisturizing oil that lasts all day long.

Easy Homemade Brown Sugar Scrub Bars - body scrub in a solid form. Great for exfoliation and makes a wonderful gift!

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Customize your scent by adding a complimentary essential oil or extract- I think that vanilla, coffee, hazelnut, almond, orange, and would all pair beautifully with the brown sugar.

Homemade Sugar Scrub Bars

Ingredients:

½ cup olive oil
1 ½ cups brown sugar
½ cup soap base (I used a goat’s milk suspension soap base)
optional- 15-20 drops essential oil or extract to scent

Soap mold (a silicone mold works best- it makes for very easy removal of your finished product)

Directions:

1. Melt soap base in a pan over low heat, stirring frequently.
2. Mix in olive oil well, then remove from heat.
3. Allow pan to cool for 5 minutes before stirring in brown sugar and essential oils if any, if you add sugar when mixture is hot it will dissolve and you will lose the exfoliating factor.

How to make brown sugar scrub bars
4. Pour mixture into mold and allow to set until hard, I like to leave it for at least a couple hours to set even though it is firm before that.
5. Remove from mold and place in a container in a cool, dark place.
6. To use: Scrub over dry areas just like a bar of soap- elbows, knees, shoulders, arms, legs, etc.. Rinse off well.
7. Place bar out of direct line of spray to make it last longer.

These are a lovely spa treat for yourself or to gift to family and friends- think Mother’s Day, housewarmings, bridal showers, and teacher gifts.

 

Easy Homemade Brown Sugar Scrub Bars - body scrub in a solid form. Great for exfoliation and makes a wonderful gift!

About Jody: I am a Florida girl through and through living the semi-country, small town life.  I am making my way through it with my amazing hubby, 2 beautiful kids, 2 of the best Dachshunds to ever walk the face of the earth, massive amounts of coffee and a whole lot of Jesus.  I homeschool, craft, cook, scrapbook, garden, raid the thrift shops, snap 1,000’s of photos, and read when I can grab a spare minute (which is rare). You can find me blogging at Simply Southern Sunshine.

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Filed Under: DIY Projects, Frugal Living Tagged With: Brown Sugar Scrub Bars, Homemade Beauty Products, Nesting Skills Series

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Comments

  1. [email protected] says

    March 26, 2015 at 5:20 am

    I want to try this recipe. I think I would like the bar better then the actual body scrub. I have the melt and pour that I heat in microwave, do you think that would work? And would it slice easy? Because I have the big mold that you pour in then slice the bars. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Pinning!

    • Jody Smith says

      March 26, 2015 at 9:13 am

      Hello Linda,
      Yes the microwave heat and pour would work just fine and I think they would slice up beautifully! I hope you enjoy them!

      • [email protected] says

        March 27, 2015 at 4:21 am

        Thank you Jody! I’m going to give it a try.

      • Rachel says

        March 28, 2015 at 1:48 pm

        What kind of melt and pour soap base? Clear? Milk? Does it matter? Also, would tea tree oil work in this as the essential oil? Thx!

        • Manuela Williams says

          March 30, 2015 at 2:14 pm

          From Jody:

          Does not matter clear or milk. Tea tree or any other essential oil is fine if that’s what you prefer, I just listed ones that seemed to “go” with sugar.

    • Manuela Williams says

      March 26, 2015 at 5:56 pm

      Hello Linda,
      Yes the microwave heat and pour would work just fine and I think they would slice up beautifully! I hope you enjoy them!

      Jody

  2. Mila says

    March 30, 2015 at 6:32 am

    It sounds amazing!
    It’s good to ditch all the chemicals 🙂

    I hope you will share your post with our Link Up – Idea box:
    http://milaslittlethings.com/2015/03/idea-box-thursday-link-party-3.html

    xx
    Mila
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  3. Anonymous says

    March 31, 2015 at 2:52 am

    They look great… I am already looking out for little Xmas presents. This is on my list! Thanks

    • Manuela Williams says

      April 1, 2015 at 2:57 pm

      It’s never too early to start on Christmas!

  4. [email protected] says

    April 3, 2015 at 10:38 pm

    Love this! Pinning!

  5. Meari says

    April 6, 2015 at 11:29 am

    The link for the soap base didn’t work for me. What size package would I use?

    • Manuela Williams says

      April 6, 2015 at 3:41 pm

      Meari,

      Jody says it’s this one and apparently it’s on sale right now. I’ll fix the link in the post – don’t know why it all of sudden won’t link.

      http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002PNV3DI/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002PNV3DI&linkCode=as2&tag=momwitablo-20&linkId=KUCPO6XIQAZAP2UE

  6. Anonymous says

    April 10, 2015 at 1:13 am

    Have you tried substituting coconut oil for the olive oil? You that that would work ok?

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