I love a nice body scrub. What I don’t like are ingredients I can’t pronounce nor easily identify. I do love some fresh scents- and citrus is one of the scents I love best. It’s energizing, it’s refreshing, and not to “girly” for the men in my house. We had a Mom’s Club playdate this week and made DIY Energizing Citrus Hand & Body Scrub for all of us to bring home- super simple, and 100% customizable! I have one of these up in the bathroom for showers, and another by the kitchen sink for hand washing- it’s been working great for keeping food odors away!
What you need:
6 cups granulated sugar
2 cups olive oil
6-8 TBSP Lemon Juice
Zest of 1 lemon
Zest of 1 orange
Lemon Extract or Essential Oil (I use Nielsen Massey Pure Lemon Extract) (To scent preference)
Orange Extract or Essential Oil (I use the Nielsen Massey Pure Orange Extract) (To scent preference)
What you do:
Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Put into containers. You can be fancy or basic here- it’s up to you. These would make a cute gift in a nice little glass jar or tin with a ribbon, but will work the same in a plastic container that you already have in the house. We did mason jars because we had some.
Jenni found the Lemon Sugar Scrub Recipe on Seven Clown Circus via Pinterest– we just changed it up a bit.
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This sounds like it would be a really nice hand and body scrub especially in the winter.
i will try this
This would be great to make with the girls thanks
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I love having scrubs like this around. Thanks for sharing your recipe!
I THINK THIS WOULD BE WORTH THE TIME TO MAKE-SOUNDS GOOD….
This is Great!! Def going to make this!!
I am Going to Try this!!!!
OK I have to make the lemon one!
I’ve just started getting into makeing my own health and beauty products. I made a lemon face scrub the other day. This will go perfect with it.
I have made some homemade body wash, but not like this! I am going to have to try this! Thanks for the post
This sounds awesome and way cheaper than usually going back to B&BW like I normally do… guilty! lol I’m so going to try this
going to make this and give it a try. Thanks
Oooh–gonna have to try this tonight!
Oohh–this looks wonderful! I am going to have to try this tonight.
i’ve also done brown sugar and bodywash for an exfoliant
im very interested in tring this
I love anything that has a citrus smell and this is so easy to make. My sister is coming over this weekend and I will have everything in the house for us to make this body scrub..thanks for posting this!!
This works well and smells good too.
This sounds wonderful, printed it off, and am going to have to try it.
im very curious to try this
I’ve got to try this. It sounds wonderful and I love scrubs!
I have this bookmarked and can’t wait to try it! Thank you so much for sharing
This would be a great way to wake up and energize for the day!
Great. I’ll sure try!
Oh I like this I’m going to go get the ingredients and buy it sometime this week! Thank you for sharing!!
I’m so glad I found this. Just ran out of scrub and it’s so expensive. Going to try this.
I’m going to pin this. What a great gift idea!
The other day i had the smell of oranges on my hands and thought i would like to get something that smelled like it….I might have to try this one, thanks
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I’ve got to try this. I really like citrus-y scents.
This is really nice, I add a little lavendar oil, though to use.
i bet it smells great. ( :
I love DIY ways to save money and this scrub looks great – I love everything citrus
Been making my own scrub for years. I enjoy the feeling of nice and smooth….aaahhh
What a great idea! I can’t wait to try making this! And it would make great Christmas and/or birthday gifts!!!
I made some homemade citrus scrub for gifts this past holiday season and also mixed in some vitamin e oil and a little bit of coconut oil. Never thought to use the extracts.
I’m going to try this. You post great recipes.
I cannot wait to try this! It would make a great gift!
I love hand scrubs; afterward your hands are just so soft.
This sounds amazing! Plus it sounds like something I’d actually be able to make.i have so many pins of home made body stuff on pinterest but a lot of them include ingredients that just aren’t too easy to come by in my small town.
This would make a lovely homemade gift for someone. It wouldn’t cost that much to produce either. Mmmm…just imagining the aroma.
I am definitely going to try this!
Thanks for this DYI, very useful and easy to do.
I love DIY projects, I’ll give this a try,thanks!
I am going to make this today as I have all of the ingredients on hand, and I even have some of the small jelly jars you used too!
What a great idea, I can’t wait to try this citrusy body scrub. It sounds magnificent!!! And I don’t like things with that strong perfumy smell so this would be perfect! Thanks for the recipe!
cant wait to try this
Oh, oh, oh I want to make this. Do you think coconut oil would work instead of olive oil?
I think coconut oil would work! Letme know if you try it
i have a bottle of wild orange essential oil that i dab on my temples to give myself an energy and mood boost, works pretty well
Oh. I love wild orange!
Awesome DIY! Save so much money!
I am like you I like the citrus smell cause it does always smells refreshing and clean. i can’t wait to make this. Thanks for the post.