Homemade Blush Pink Sugar Body Scrub with Essential Oils

This sugar body scrub is made with coconut oil, sugar and essentials oils. It’s super easy to make and I’ve even included free printable labels if you want to give away a few to your friends.

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Herbal Bath Salts, Dry Body Oil, and Hydrating Facial Oil

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If you’re fair skinned like me you probably hate showing your white legs in public. I don’t have the time to lay out in the sun, and with my family’s skin cancer history, it’s probably not a good idea anyway. So, I often resort to using a sunless tanning product.

I’ve tried many and they all smell bad. The one that has worked best for me is St. Tropez Bronzing Mousse applied with a foam mitt for even coverage. The other key to obtaining a natural, even tan, with a sunless tanner is to make sure your skin is exfoliated. They all tell you this in the directions. Exfoliating your skin removes dead skin and allows the product to go on smoothly and last longer.

This is where the sugar body scrub comes into play. Using a formula of 2 to 1, sugar to coconut oil, you can make your own homemade sugar scrub, which is perfect for exfoliating all the dead skin on your body. For this one, I also added a drop of red food coloring to make it a pretty blush pink color to matching the center of my pretty peonies.

Adding, several drops of essential oil will make it smell great too. Feel free to use any combination of oils that you like best. I used a variety of citrus, lavender, and patchouli. If you want to learn more about blending essential oils, check out this article about perfume oil. You could also use fragrance oils for this project. They are cheaper and you can sometimes find scents that are not readily available in the essential oil market.

Free Printable Labels

I’m using 8 oz. plastic jars for safety in the shower but you could use mason jars. If you want to make some to give away or sell, feel free to print out the label above which fits perfectly on a sheet of Avery 5294 round 2.5-inch labels. Just click on the image above and it will download to a Word document.

Homemade Blush Pink Sugar Body Scrub

This sugar body scrub is also perfect for your feet.

Follow up with a good moisturizer or make your own dry body oil spray.

5 from 1 vote

Blush Pink Sugar Body Scrub

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup solid coconut oil
1/2 - 1 teaspoon essential oils 50 - 100 drops

Instructions

Combine sugar and coconut oil in a medium bowl. Whisk together until smooth. Add essential oil and mix well until you the scent strength you desire.

About Patti Estep

Patti is the creator of Hearth and Vine, a home and garden blog filled with projects to inspire your creative side. She loves crafting, gardening, decorating and entertaining at her home in Pennsylvania. When she is not working on a project at home or searching for treasures at nurseries and thrift stores with her girlfriends, you’ll probably find her with family and friends, at a restaurant, or home party enjoying new and different food adventures.

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Comments

carole says

June 15, 2017 at 7:37 am

What a neat gift idea, this stuff is expensive when you purchase from retailers. Like you, fair skin, white legs and it’s all good. I’ve given up on laying in the sun years ago. I’m running into some additional time lately which means I’m learning to relax and I’ve been making some fun things here and there so this is going on my list for next week. Thanks!

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Pamela @ Flower Patch Farmhouse says

June 16, 2017 at 12:54 pm

This sounds wonderful. I had a friend give me some epsom salts that she added lavender essential oil to and what a relaxing combo to add to the bath.
My feet especially need the exfoliation in the summer as I wear sandals constantly and it takes extra scrubbing to get the dirt off.

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- Patti Estep says
  
  June 17, 2017 at 6:55 am
  
  Hi Pamela,
  
  This works great on dry feet. If you want something a little stronger you could try table salt for your feets too.
  Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!
  Patti
  
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Barbara Chapman ~ French Ethereal says

June 19, 2017 at 5:15 pm

Hi Patti!

A wonderful idea! I posted this out to my Ethereal Beautiful You board on Pinterest for you and will post to DIY projects via Tailwind. I love all these idea for scrubs! I’m allergic to a lot of grasses and things so I can’t make for myself, but I have a daughter who loves these as well as my new daughter-in-love. <3

Thank you for this idea,
Barb 🙂

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- Patti Estep says
  
  June 19, 2017 at 8:23 pm
  
  Hi Barbara,
  
  I’m so glad you like the scrub and I hope your daughter and new daughter-in-law love it too.
  Thanks for sharing and stopping by,
  Patti
  
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Lesley says

July 1, 2017 at 7:55 am

This is just so LUSH LooKing!🌸 I am going to use Hibiscus flower Powder in it for color:) it makes a great pink! With some Xtra nutrients along with the whole prettiness too! “They”‘are calling it the “New Botox!” if you infuse it with Oassion Flower it relaxes facial
Muscles! Kinda good to know :).. hey I’m eyes off track here! So sorry! Enjoy your weekend Sugar Babies :)-

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- Patti Estep says
  
  July 1, 2017 at 8:01 am
  
  Hi Lesley,
  
  That’s good to know. I have never used that kind of ingredient for color or any other benefit but it does sound interesting.
  
  Thanks for sharing, and stopping by,
  
  Pati
  
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Guadalupe says

December 23, 2017 at 10:38 pm

Easy and natural, you have great ideas always Patti. Regards

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- Patti Estep says
  
  December 24, 2017 at 9:49 am
  
  Thanks Guadalupe!
  
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vanessa says

March 27, 2018 at 11:55 am

Wouldn’t the food coloring, stain ur skin? Or make ur skin that color?

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- Patti Estep says
  
  March 28, 2018 at 7:12 am
  
  No. I have not found this to be the case. Perhaps its because there is the smallest amount of red food coloring in this sugar scrub making it a light pink.
  
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