Brown Sugar Body Scrub

My SIL got me this brown sugar body scrub from Bath & Body Works a few years ago and ever since then, I've wanted to find something like it, but cheaper. Luckily for me, pintrest to the rescue! I saw a ton of different "recipes" on there and this is the one that looked easiest to me. Lazy to the rescue, again.

To make this, you need:
-brown sugar
-white sugar (note: in this picture is flour. that is not what you want. don't use it!)
-olive oil (I bought a $4 bottle at Ollie's - not great for cooking, fine for slathering on your body)
-grapefruit seed extract (I bought a bottle for about $8 off of amazon.com)
-plastic containers (I found Ziploc containers with twist on lids, which I think are great for this)

The first thing I did was figure out a ratio of grapefruit seed extract to olive oil. The original recipe said to store this into the fridge...but no way would I 1) remember to take it up to the shower with me or 2) use something cold. I found some other information on the internet that said you could use GSE as a natural preservative, so that's what I went with. I did some math - feel free to check it, since Lord knows I am not a math major - but I think it works out to about a teaspoon of GSE per cup of oil. One cup of oil made about six cups of scrub (three containers) so divide that up as you see fit.

The next thing I did was scoop brown sugar and white sugar into the containers until they were as full as I wanted. Then I dumped the containers into a large mixing bowl and mixed the sugar together. I used about a 1:1 ratio of brown to white sugar, but from looking at stuff on the internet, I think you can use whatever ratio you want.

Once all the sugar is mixed together (get rid of the big lumps that are in that picture and combine until it's a sandy texture) I divided the sugar back up into the containers. Then I added the oil/GSE mixture to the containers.


I don't think there's a right or wrong ratio of oil to sugar, but I wanted to have a little more liquidy/oily mixture. I have super dry skin and I figured it wouldn't hurt to have a little extra oil on it.

As the oil was still trickling through the sugar, I added 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract. I don't think the mixture smelled olive oily, but the vanilla makes it smell SOOOO good!


Once the vanilla and oil had kind of seeped all the way through the containers, I dumped them back into the bowl to mix together. When mixed together, you get a better sense of how wet or dry it is. I think it would be easier to add more sugar, rather than the oil since the oil is mixed with the GSE, but that's just me.


Once everything is mixed together, put back into the individual containers.


I've had mine for about a month now, stored in my shower, and so far, no mold or mildew. Also, it still smells DIVINE! I like to use this scrub as the last thing I do before I get out of the shower and I haven't had to use lotion for a while. It's fabulous. I think it's my new favorite thing that I've made!