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Oatmeal body scrub soap and more (merged)

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  • moggins
    moggins Posts: 5,190 Forumite
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    Scented Salt Body Scrub

    Ingredients:

    3 cups fine sea salt
    3/4 cup olive oil
    3/4 cup sweet almond oil
    essential oils as desired

    Preparation:

    Mix salt, olive oil, and almond oil in a glass bowl. Add an essential oil, such as peppermint, for scent. Store in a tightly sealed glass jar. This scrub is perfect after a bath or shower while the skin is still warm and damp. Massage a tablespoon or two onto the skin in small circles. Leave on for five to 20 minutes, then rinse.
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    Sugar Body Scrub

    Ingredients:

    2 cups granulated sugar
    1/2 cup canola oil

    Preparation: Mix sugar and oil in a glass bowl. This scrub is milder and simpler to make than the salt scrub. If this scrub is for one person, it might be better to cut the recipe in half.
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  • nabowla
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    I've got a book at home that has a whole chapter on old-fashioned beauty preparations & I'm sure that it has a couple of body scrub recipes. I'll have a look this evening.
  • starlite_2
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    No tips, but just to add..be careful not to over exfoliate..
    so many of my friends waste money buying expensive scrubs, then pile on moisturisers to replenish what they are losing from over scrubbing...
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  • squeaky
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    Actually, it would be a good idea to merge the oatmeal scrub soap thread and this one so as to keep all these ideas in one place, so I'll do that any second now... :)
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  • kirstyreanne
    kirstyreanne Posts: 276 Forumite
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    This website looks quite good.

    http://www.acplace.com/Crafts/bath.htm

    Just one question though - is cornstarch the same as corn flour?
  • squeaky
    squeaky Posts: 14,129 Forumite
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    kirstyreanne wrote:
    This website looks quite good.

    http://www.acplace.com/Crafts/bath.htm

    Just one question though - is cornstarch the same as corn flour?

    I've always thought so. The link below confirms it.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cornstarch
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  • carrie78
    carrie78 Posts: 68 Forumite
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    Wow I'm going to be busy.Thanks for merging.

    Thanks
    Carrie
  • Lydia_2
    Lydia_2 Posts: 145 Forumite
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    Thanks for the recipe Queenie, I'm going to have a try at the oatmeal scrub.
  • lightisfading
    lightisfading Posts: 1,288 Forumite
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    I've just got some 'melt and pour' soap base to try and do some for christmas. I'm planning on using a marg tub as a mould (then slicing it) - it's a 'regular' sized tub, not the smallest, but the next one up... roughly how much soap base, weight wise, should i use?
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