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DIY brown sugar face scrub

Rapadura Brown Sugar Face Scrub Recipe

This DIY brown sugar face scrub smells & feels amazing, & does its job amazingly well. No complaints here about it, & it's a lot easier to make than you think.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes
Active Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Course: DIY Skincare
Cuisine: N/A
Difficulty Level: Easy
Yield (adjustable): 100 grams
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Ingredients:

Equipment:

Instructions:

  • Weigh your emulsifying wax, cetyl alcohol, cocoa butter, shea butter, and sweet almond oil into a heat-proof container
    9 g Emulsifying Wax NF, 9 g Cetyl Alcohol, 9 g Cocoa Butter, 9 g Shea Butter, 40 g Sweet Almond Oil
    weigh ingredients for a brown sugar face scrub
  • Create a water bath by filling a shallow saucepan with a couple of inches of water. Then, place the container into the water bath. Bring the water to a gentle simmer, until the waxes and butter have melted. Once melted remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly.
    Create a water bath by filling a shallow saucepan with a couple of inches of water
  • Stir the melted wax/oil/butter until they cool to below 104f (40c) and has started to leave a trace on the top of the mixture while stirring. This may take a while. I usually work in intervals of stirring a bit and resting for a while.
    You can quicken this process by placing the container into an ice bath for a few minutes. An ice bath can be made by placing a little cold water and some ice cubes into a bowl that's big enough to stand the container in. This speeds up the process immensely so you will need to stir continually. If you feel the mixture is becoming too cold you can pop it in and out of the ice bath as needed.
    Stir the melted wax/oil/butter until they cool to below 104f (40c)
  • Once your mixture has thickened to trace, add your preservative, vitamin e and benzoin to the beaker. Then mix well.
    1 g Vitamin E Oil, 1 g Preservative, 0.5 g Benzoin Essential Oil
    add your preservative, vitamin e and benzoin to the beaker
  • We can now add our exfoliants. We’re using oatmeal and rapadura brown sugar. You can use colloidal oats, or you can save money by buying regular rolled oats and blending them in a blender or food processor. Make sure your exfoliants are mixed in well.
    15 g Rapadura Brown Sugar, 6.5 g Colloidal Ground Oats
    add rapadura brown sugar to face scrub recipe
  • We can now transfer to your chosen pot to store. As we have included essential oils in this recipe, you will need to make sure your pot is made of glass, PET plastic or aluminium.
    Your scrub will likely be a little loose at this point. Don’t worry, it will harden up in the pot overnight. Avoid putting the lid on until fully cooled.
    Cosmetic Jar 4 oz
    transfer brown sugar face scrub to your chosen pot to store

Notes:

We’re using a preservative in this recipe. You might think it is not necessary, as we have no water-based or soluble ingredients here. However, this scrub is ideal when kept in the bathroom, so it can be easily applied and removed. This makes it much more likely for water to find its way into the product, and therefore needs a preservative.
 
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