DIY Body Scrub!!

Being a student, a huge struggle is money! So, when it comes to events such as Birthdays, Christmas, Mothers and Fathers days, etc, etc, scraping together funds in order to purchase gifts can be hard!
I am one of those people who loves giving gifts, I love shopping for them, picking out the card, paper, ribbon and wrapping it, everything I love, but, everything is stunted when I don't have the funds. As my Mum's birthday is in a couple of days, I was struggling to think of what I could get her, that would be a nice meaningful gift but wouldn't cost me a whole bunch. I searched the internet and found a bunch of ideas but even though they all say 'Do it yourself from things in your cupboard/pantry' there were things that you would have to go out and buy like clock hands, and paint based sharpies, etc etc. NOT HELPFUL! Finally I came across a really simple idea - DIY Body Scrub, the ingredients and method were so simple, I had to try it. The basis was to have sunflower oil and seasalt but after doing a little more research online, I found that you could add more bits to the scrub that would be beneficial to the skin.

Here is what I did...
First I took an empty jam jar that I had saved and left it in a sink full of warm water for about 5 minutes, to enable me to easily remove the sticky label on the front and back of the jar. (You obviously don't have to re-cycle a jam jar, you could use any jar you can find or you could buy a set of mason jars, whatever you fancy).
When the label was removed and
the jar dried, I started to fill it with ingredients...



I started off with base of sunflower oil and Cornish sea salt. I emptied a similar amount of each in to the jar and started to mix them together. I then added some table salt so there would be smaller and larger sized pieces.
I then added regular granulated white sugar, brown sugar would have been better for the recipe (so use brown sugar if you have it) but all had was white. I mixed all of this in together. I kept adding more of each of the dry ingredients to the oil and mixing as I went.



I then decided to go ahead and add coffee (just regular instant, ground coffee beans but you can use any type of ground coffee, filter coffee grounds are probably the best). Coffee is a good temporary solution to reducing cellulite and giving your skin a firmer appearance.



I kept adding more oil and dry ingredients to the jar whilst mixing together. Then I decided to add some bio oil, I had a sample sized bottle that I hadn't used yet so I put alot of that in, and obviously that speaks for itself in terms or the benefits it has to your skin so I thought that would be a really good way of reducing the steps in your daily or weekly beauty regime but adding scrub and oil together. Adding this however made the whole smell of the scrub pretty weird so you can always add a scent to it, like perfume of body spray but make sure not too much as you don't want it to irritate the skin. I just added a couple of spritz of the Hollister Silver Strand Beach mist.
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And Voila, done. There are so many different variations you could do but I decided to go with these ingredients as this was all that I had in the cupboards to use. But you could use orange and lemon zest, coconut, vanilla and lavender oil, etc etc, whatever you are feeling.