How to Make a Honey Cleansing Scrub

Be sweet on your skin and give it some honey! This golden elixir not only tastes great, it's wonderful for the complexion. Honey helps the skin retain moisture, plus it has natural bacteria-fighting properties that help heal blemishes and prevent new ones from erupting. Overall, skin just loves honey. Here are some ways to use honey in luxurious cleansing scrubs at home.

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1 cup table salt or sea salt
• 1/3 cup honey
• 1/3 cup jojoba oil
• 2 tbsp. clay powder
• 2 tbsp. non-fat dry milk     

Adding Almonds and Lemon Juice

1. • Combine 1 tbsp. of honey with 2 tsp. of finely ground almonds.
   • Use a food processor or coffee grinder to grind the almonds.
     
   • Add 1 tsp. of lemon juice and mix well.
     
   • Gently rub the mixture onto the face and neck. Rinse with warm water.
     

2. Full Body Scrub

   • Combine 2 cups of sugar with 1 1/2 cups of sweet almond oil.
     
   • Add 4 tbsp. of honey and 4 tsp. of lemon juice.
     
   • If desired, add 4 drops of lemon essential oil. Mix quickly, not allowing sugar to dissolve.
     
   • Apply this to the face, neck, shoulders, chest, back, legs and feet. Leave on for 10 to 15 minutes. Rinse off in a warm shower.
     

3. Adding Salt

   • Use salt in this honey scrub.
     
   • Add 1 cup of table salt or sea salt to 1/3 cup of honey and 1/3 cup of jojoba oil.
     
   • To this mixture, add 2 tbsp. of clay powder used in spa facials. This is available at health food stores or cosmetic stores.
     
   • Add 2 tbsp. of non-fat dry milk.
     
   • Mix well, adding additional honey or oil as needed to create a creamy texture.
     
   • Rub onto face and body. Leave on for 10 to 20 minutes and rinse off in a warm shower.

Homemade Foot Scrub

The skin of your feet also needs to be exfoliated and renewed like the skin in any other part of your body. There are different types of foot scrubs that are available in the market today. However, since most of them are quite expensive, people tend to skip them altogether. Do you know that you can make foot scrubs at home also? They are almost as good as the market ones and also cost much less. In order to help you out, we have listed a number of homemade foot scrub recipes in the following lines. After making these foot scrubs, all you have to do is wet your feet, ankles and calf and rub them with it, using circular movements. Thereafter, rinse off with warm water, dry with a towel and apply a moisturizer.

Homemade Foot Pedicure Scrub Recipe

Lime Foot Scrub

Ingredients

3 Limes
2 tbsp White Sugar
1 tbsp Sweet Almond Oil
15 Fresh Mint Leaves (chopped)
5 drops Lime Essential Oil

Instructions

Cut the limes into small pieces.
Put all the lime pieces into a blender and form a pulp.
Mix the lime pulp with almond oil, mint leaves and essential oil.
Your lime foot scrub is ready to be used.

Sugar Foot Scrub

Ingredients

¼ cup Sugar (white or brown)
¼ cup Sweet Almond Oil
6 drops Orange Essential Oil
1 drop Ginger Essential Oil
1 tsp Powdered Cayenne Pepper

Instructions

Take a plastic bowl and in it, mix together sugar and almond oil.
Add orange oil and ginger oil and mix well.
Stir in cayenne pepper as the final ingredient.
Your sugar foot scrub is ready to be used.

Peppermint Foot Scrub

Ingredients

1½ cups Sea Salt
¼ cup Sweet Almond Oil
2 drops Peppermint Essential Oil
3 drops Lavender Essential Oil

Instructions

In a bowl, combine together sea salt and almond oil.
The mixture should hold well. If it doesn't and seems dry, add almond oil, by the tablespoon, till you get the desired consistency.
Add peppermint oil and lavender oil.
Mix well.
Your peppermint foot scrub is ready to be used.

Brown Sugar Foot Scrub

Ingredients

2 tbsp Brown Sugar
2 tbsp Ground Oats
2 tbsp Aloe Vera Gel
1 tbsp Honey
1 tsp Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice
1 tsp Almond Oil/ Olive Oil

Instructions

First of all, you need to grind the oatmeal, in a coffee grinder or food processor, to a sandy consistency.
In a large bowl, put ground oats and add all the other ingredients.
Mix them well, until the mixture resembles a paste.
Your brown sugar foot scrub is ready to be used.