John Franz - Sugar Scrubs: The Beginners Guide to Creating and Gifting Body Scrubs

Sugar Scrubs

The Beginners Guide to Creating and Gifting Body Scrubs

John Franz

2015

B ody scrubs are meant to make a person feel wonderful, and if you do them right thats exactly what they can do. You can make someone feel wonderful through the flowers you use, scents, bases, and just the way it makes a persons skin feel soft, refreshed, and generally clean.

They remove a dead layer of cells on the surface of your skin, which helps people to look younger by revealing the younger cells beneath. Your skin, after a proper body scrub, will feel smooth and soft, and it has natural oils that will help to moisturize your skin to keep it from drying out. From essential oils and flowers with aromatherapy properties to bases, you can get people in a romantic mood, energize them, soothe them, or just relax them, depending on who youre giving your gift to and how you structure your body scrub.

Why Use It as a Gift?

Everyone wants to know what type of gift to give someone, and it can be so difficult to find something to give people that means anything. The countless gifts that are lining the shelves of various stores usually dont hold any meaning. When you make your own gift, then it has more meaning to you and the person youre giving it to, and body scrubs are easy to make. An easy, meaningful gift is always a good option.

Body scrubs are also extremely easy to make sure that theyre specialized. Youll be able to make sure that you customize your gifts from the way you decorate them. You can choose a scent that means something to them, a scent that matches them, add a poem, or add their favorite color. Body scrubs are easy to make and personalize to fit your needs, and youre providing them with something that is both useful and luxurious.

Y oure going to have to prepare for making body scrubs, and the presentation really matters as well if youre giving them as a gift, so make sure that you have everything before you start. Youre going to need these basic ingredients to get started.

Brown Sugar: Brown sugar is a great way to add a little more depth to your body scrub, and its great if youre giving it to someone who likes something sweet. Of course, its still coarse enough that youll be able to exfoliate skin easily, and you dont need to add a lot of scents to it.

White Sugar: White sugar is used in a lot more body scrub recipes because its a little more versatile.

Coarse Sea Salt: Sometimes, you dont want sugar, especially if youre trying to make something that smells a little manlier. To have a base that exfoliates skin, youre going to want salt. You can use table salt, but its a lot finer, and doesnt work quite as well. Many people prefer coarse sea salt, but you can choose grain of your choice if youd rather something a little smoother.

Olive Oil: Olive oil is an easy and cheap moisturizer to add to your body scrubs, and many different body scrub recipes will call for it. Of course, its still good for your skin, and extremely healthy. It can make your skin look that much younger. Olive oil is even able to help with extremely dry skin.

Sweet Almond Oil: Sweet almond oil can help you to treat different rashes, skin irritations, and even acne. Its great for your skin, and goes well into a body scrub. Youll find that it helps to make sure that you have everything you need to moisturize skin as well. It can even remove dark spots, and is great for anti-aging.

Essential Oils: Make sure you have therapeutic grade essential oils if you want to use them in a body scrub for their abilities more than just their scents. However, if youre just looking for a scent, a cheaper grade could work. Some of the best essential oils to keep on hand is cedarwood, sandalwood, orange blossom, rose, and lavender. This gives you a balance, and essential oils can always be substituted to create a slightly different body scrub.

A Glass Jar: Youre going to need an airtight glass jar. The colorful look of your body scrub is part of the appeal, so glass jars are a must. Make sure its airtight, and many people will use mason jars. You can even decorate the top rather easily.

Presentation Tips:

If youre giving something as a gift, presentation always matter. This doesnt change with body scrubs. The body scrub you choose will also depend on how you decorate it, but there are many tips for creating an easy and beautiful body scrub that youre still able to personalize.

Cardstock for Tags is a Must: A heavy duty paper like cardstock is always important to have so you can print or write tags. It can tell them the name of the scrub, a description, or just the ingredients and directions. Most people dont need direction with a body scrub, so put something a little more personal on it, and you can get different colors and designs of this heavy duty paper to make a tag that makes it great for a gift.

Lace or Ribbon Sets it Off: Lace or ribbon is important because it will allow you to tie the tag around the jar, and itll help to make sure that your tag stays on and add a little more presentation to it. Make sure to have a large variety, but it doesnt have to necessarily be expensive.

Cloth Squares Help to Personalize: Youre always going to want a homemade touch to what youre making, and a tag is a great place to start, but having cloth squares helps as well. You can get these at any fabric store, and theyre not that hard. Or, if youre making a lot of them you can always get a large amount of cloth and trim it down to the size you need. Just hot glue it to the top of the jar, and sometimes put some cotton balls underneath to give it a plush look that gives it a rounded top. Its completely up to you. Using hot glue will keep it on, and make it a little prettier. You can even use a specialized pair of scissors to cut a pattern at the bottom.

S ometimes you know older people who are a little worried about wrinkles, dark spots, and the general effects of aging. Everybody scrub helps to make your skin look a little better, healthier, and even younger, but some are specialized to help make sure that youre dealing with wrinkles and the process of aging. These make great gifts to an aging friend whos worried about it, but never give it to someone who might get insulted by it. You can eve use it to help with the effects of aging yourself. These body scrubs can double as a facemask.