How to Make Brown Sugar and Lemon Body Scrub

A body scrub offers many benefits. Not only does it feel refreshing and invigorating, but it also cleans and exfoliates dry skin, removes toxins and improves circulation. Commercial body scrubs are very expensive, but it's easy to make your own healthy and natural body scrub. Try a brown sugar and lemon body scrub, and feel the benefits for yourself.

Things You'll Need

• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sea salt
• 1 tbsp. jojoba oil
• 1 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 2 tsp. freshly grated lemon peel
• 1 tbsp. pure honey
• 1 vitamin E capsule

Instructions

1. Put the 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup sea salt in a large mixing bowl. Stir to mix.

2. Add 1 tbsp. jojoba oil, 1 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice, 2 tsp. freshly grated lemon peel and 1 tbsp. pure honey. Stir until the jojoba oil is completely blended.

3. Poke a small hole in the vitamin E capsule and squeeze it into the brown sugar and lemon body scrub. Stir to blend.

4. Take a warm shower, then turn the water off.

5. Stand in the tub and apply the brown sugar and lemon body scrub to your body, massaging with your fingertips and working in a circular motion. Pay particular attention to dry areas like heels, knees and elbows.

6. Turn the shower back on, and rinse the brown sugar and lemon body scrub completely from your body.

7. Dry your skin with a soft towel and apply your favorite moisturizer.

Tips & Warnings

• Cold-pressed olive oil or grapeseed oil can be substituted for jojoba oil.