Essential Oils?/Easy DIY: Simple Olive Oil Scrub

As of now, the big hype in the world of Organic is the essential oils. Almost all the really cool organic beauty projects that you can DIY all require essential oils. Now, if you're a lazy bum like I started before I got into this business, I wanted the best, the cheapest, and the easiest.

To sum things up: I feel ya'.

I'm going to start bringing to the blog non-essential oil recipes for the quick and easy DIYers that really just want to open the pantry and BOOM; Instant beauty product. To start things off, let's do a simple scrub! This was actually the first scrub that I ever made.

D'aww. Look at my cruddy camera phone!

This only calls for two ingredients and a container: Olive oil and brown sugar.

(Oh no! So many words! TL;DR! Don't worry, if you're that lazy, just stop at bullet two).

• Usually, people call for a 2:1 ratio of mineral to oil. I honestly prefer a 3:1 ration or more (like 4:1) because the oil will start to pool on top and then becomes too oily for me. But the ratio is up to you. (My ratio is in cups).
• Grab a good mixing bowl, dump everything in and get mixing.

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• Another great addition is vitamin E oil. If you have a bottle of some, great. If not, search your vitamins and see if you have the vitamin E oil capsules. I know that opening a pill is like taboo, but don't hesitate to stick a pin in it and squeeze out the oil into your mix. Ta-dah; you just took this scrub to the next level.
• You could stop here and just put it into a container and go. If you want to be more creative then let's keep going. Don't be afraid to get funky with your ingredients. Crushed herbs (just pry open a tea bag) can add total awesomeness to your already-amazing scrub.
• Have fun with your scrub. If you have anything else you want to add to it (that's safe of course) go for it. To wrap things up, it's time for the container. Instead of putting it into a boring Tupperware container, find a nice little jar to stuff it all into. Jars add a great touch. You can even make it pretty with a little ribbon around it. Now set that baby on your shelf and you have yourself a beauty product.

I probably should have cleaned that up a bit...

Here's another easy tip: the brown sugar can easily be replaced with some other sugar or salt (a large salt like sea salt or kosher salt) and the oil can as well. Scrubs don't have definite ingredients and can usually be made with any natural oil (no vegetable or canola oil) and salt or sugar.

Salt or Sugar?

This depends if you want it as a face scrub or body scrub. Sugars don't dissolve as fast and are therefore better for a body scrub. They can be a little rough on the face. If you do wan't a sugar for the face, I'd use plain white sugar.

If you're looking for something soft on the body and therefore gentle on the face, then the best would be a salt. I'd recommend using large crystal salts. Now because salt is salt, 'careful around wounds or your eyes if you chose to use it on your face.