This is a lovely, soft and gentle Brown Sugar Scrub, perfect for the delicate skin on your face and neck. Brown sugar is a wonderful exfoliating ingredient and contains glycolic acid which fights bacteria; honey is incredible for the skin because of its antioxidant and antibacterial properties; and if you use olive oil as your carrier oil, it is probably something you can whip up with ingredients you have in your pantry right now.
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BROWN SUGAR SCRUB
Makes: 200 g Prep time: < 5 min.
Ingredients
• 100 g brown sugar
• 50 g raw or white sugar
• 30 g carrier oil (fractionated coconut oil and sweet almond oil are popular choices)
• 20 g honey
Method
1. Add all ingredients to a bowl and mix until combined.
2. Transfer into container of choice.
To Use
Wet face and scoop a small amount of scrub, rubbing gently in a circular motion over face and neck. Rinse with warm water.
Krissy Ballinger
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Perfect. My girls and I had so much fun making this. Family honey straight from the hive too.? We all love this scrub, even hubby!