Making homemade body scrub is as easy mixing a few basic ingredients. You most likely already have them in your house.
Sugar?
Salt?
Oil?
Good to go!
Why make homemade body scrub?
I started making my own homemade body scrub, because it is fun, easy and very rewarding. But most of all, because I like to use natural organic skin care. Stuff that doesn’t contain harmful chemicals, preservatives, petroleum derived substances and so on. Turns out, that can be hard to find. Stores carry many so called ‘fake’ organic brands. They have a nice wrap with grass, leaves and flowers, the word ‘natural’ is sprinkled all over… and poof! A product looks natural and organic, so it must be. Plus, the organic store sells it, so it should be quite allright. Right? Nope. Not after you read the label.
A relatively tiny amount of natural ingredients give the manufacturer the right to use the word ‘natural’, even if the other 95% is synthetic. ‘With organic something’ means exactly that – with an organic ingredient. It does not mention a word about the other ingredients present in the product. It all boils down to semantics.
But back to homemade body scrub.
The best reason to make your own body scrub recipes, is that it allows you to stay away from toxic and harmful ingredients present in the commercial ones.
Speaking of ingredients…
Ein Gedi’s Eucalyptus Foot & Body Soak, with Dead Sea minerals and essential oils, is one of the scrubs I used to like. It felt (and smelled) lovely and natural. I guess I imagined some people in Israel scooping the Dead Sea salt and water straight into the jars and adding a few drops of eucalyptus oil before shipping them off.
After getting into reading skin care labels, I was shocked by what ingredients were actually in this scrub/soak. Sea Salt, Glycerin, Water and Eucalyptus Essential Oil as the natural ones. Also: Propylene Glycol, Polyquaternium-7, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Butylparaben, Ethylparaben, Propylparaben, Imidazolidinyl Urea, Tocopheryl Acetate, EDTA, Blue 1 and Yellow 10. You may recognize some of the worst possible skin care ingredients in this list. Synthetic substances, derived from petroleum and coal tar. Loaded with harsh hormone-disrupting preservatives, releasing the carcinogen formaldehyde.
No more toxic tub, nor scrub!
That’s why homemade body scrub recipes are the best. You have full control over the ingredients and you can create them to scent exactly the way you like, with unlimited combinations of natural essential oils.
(Finding a true supplier of natural organic skin care products works too!)
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