This simple sugar scrub recipe made with natural ingredients makes a great gift for yourself or others. Making DIY sugar scrub is easy enough that kids can help make it. The DIY exfoliator will leave you with super soft skin on your entire body. Let’s make homemade sugar scrub using our favorite essential oils!

Easy Sugar Scrub Recipe Kids Can Make

This sugar scrub recipe can use a single essential oil or an array of natural oils which turns any regular sugar scrub into a luxurious sugar scrub.

Related: More sugar scrub recipes

What is Sugar Scrub?

There are a lot of different types of sugar scrub, but the main common ingredient is sugar (duh!) and it is used for exfoliation.

A sugar scrub consists of large sugar crystals. The idea is to massage these granules into your skin to remove debris and dead skin cells.

– Healthline, Sugar Scrub

Essentially, what sugar scrubs do is encourage cell turnover and bring healthier skin to the surface. The best part about sugar scrubs is that it promotes blood circulation when applied in a circular motion and it’ll make you feel rejuvenated.

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Homemade Lavender Sugar Scrub Recipe

When you add essential oils to the mix, you get a sugar scrub that not only smells amazing but also has some other added benefits, such as promoting relaxation and helping with allergies, insomnia, among other things. And it’s made with completely natural products!

Ingredients Needed To Make Lavender Sugar Scrub

• Jar with a top
• Sugar
• Oil (olive oil, almond oil, or another sort of simple not smelly oil).
• Essential oils – this recipe uses lavender as it smells amazing, but you can use Roman chamomile, peppermint, tea tree, and geranium too, or just your favorite one.
• Food coloring

Directions for Making Easy Homemade Sugar Scrub Recipe

Step 1 – Mixing Up The Ingredients

Mix up the ingredients in a medium bowl. Make sure that all ingredients are properly blended. We recommend adding just a few drops of food coloring since you don’t want your skin to get tinted!

• 3 cups white sugar
• 1 cup and 2 tbsp of olive oil
• 10+ drops of lavender (or any other essential oil)
• a few drops of food coloring based on the color you want your scrub

Step 2 – Packing The Sugar Scrub

Pack mixed sugar scrub into a jar. We used large tongue depressors to scoop the sugar scrub into the jars.

Step 3 – Decorating Your Sugar Scrub Jar

Decorate with some ribbon and personalize it with some stickers. We added a letter sticker for the first initial of who we were giving the gift to.

Make a card or little note to attach to it and give it as a gift to someone you know that needs a pick me up!

Our Experience Making DIY Sugar Scrub – Some Tips

• I didn’t use too much food coloring because I only wanted it to be tinted a peach color and didn’t want to be rubbing food coloring all over myself!
• Making sugar scrub together gave us lots of opportunities to talk about the five senses and to work on measuring skills.
• Not only would this gift be great teacher gift for teacher appreciation week, but you could also make it as an end of the year or beginning of the year teacher gift.
• Plus, it is a perfect gift for anyone who needs to relax or has trouble sleeping thanks to the lavender.
• Other relaxing blends are: copaiba, vetiver, cedarwood, peace and calming essential oil, stress away essential oil, orange.

Other Homemade Sugar Scrub Ideas

Sugar scrub is really simple to make with kids and a lovely way to pamper yourself or a loved one with simple ingredients. You can add anything you want to this natural exfoliant too to create the best results for you: coffee grounds, vitamin e oil, jojoba oil, shea butter, rose petals, aloe vera, sweet almond oil…

• Adding lavender to your recipe might be the perfect cure for sleepless nights, too!
• You can even make this sugar scrub as Christmas gifts. Use red food coloring or green food coloring or even a mixture of both. Then you’d add some vanilla essential oil, cinnamon bark, or peppermint!

HOMEMADE SUGAR BODY SCRUB RECIPES CONTAINER

After you make some of our great homemade sugar scrub recipes using simple ingredients you will want a way to store it and to give it out. Jars, mason jars, and other containers are what make our sugar scrubs a great gift. I mean…besides the soft skin and personal spa day you are giving someone.

• 10oz Mason Jars With Lids and Labels
• 8oz White Plastic Cosmetic Jars
• 8oz Plastic Container With Lids
• 7oz Small Glass Jars With Cork Lids
• 6oz Plastic Containers with Lids and Labels
• 4oz Mini Glass Jars with Bamboo Lids
• 3.4oz Cosmetic Pot Jars
• Christmas Ribbons

Can You Use Other Oils Besides Almond Oil In Your Sugar Scrub?

Yes, you can! Almond oil is a great neutral oil, but you can use other oils like coconut oil, avocado oil, grapeseed soil, macadamia oil. Whatever cup oil you use, make sure you aren’t allergic and that’s it is a neutral safe oil.

Can You Use Different Sugars In Your Sugar Scrub?

While most sugar scrubs use refined white sugar you can use other sugars in your diy sugar scrub recipe. You can use brown sugar (I personally love brown sugar scrub), organic sugar, coarse sugar, turbinado sugar, and fine sugar.

Does A Homemade Body Scrub Work As Well As Store Bought?

Yes! And I even will say it’s a bit better, because you know what exactly is in your sugar scrub. No harsh chemicals which is great if you have sensitive skin. This diy body scrub is one of my favorite natural beauty products, because it helps exfoliate dry skin and leaves your with smooth skin! Your new skin will be soft and smell so good!

Sugar Scrub ~ A Gift Kids Can Make

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This sugar scrub recipe is great to make with the kids. Adding lavender might be a perfect cure for sleepless nights and makes a great gift.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Active Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Difficulty easy

Estimated Cost $15-$20

Materials

• Jar with a top
• Sugar
• Oil (olive oil, almond oil, or another sort of simple not smelly oil).
• Essential oils (I love using lavender!)
• Food coloring

Instructions

1. Mix up the ingredients in a bowl. We used 3 cups white sugar, 1 cup and 2 tbsp of olive oil, 10+ drops of lavender (or any other essential oil), and a few drops of food coloring based on the color you want your scrub.
2. Pack mixed sugar scrub into a jar. We used large tongue depressors to scoop the sugar scrub into the jars.
3. Decorate with some ribbon and personalize it with some stickers. We added a letter sticker for the first initial of who we were giving the gift to.
4. Make a card or little note to attach to it and give it as a gift to someone you know that needs a pick me up!

Notes

I didn’t use too much food coloring because I only wanted it to be tinted a peach color and didn’t want to be rubbing food coloring all over myself!

Related: TipJunkie has a great post sharing 14 Easy Homemade Sugar Scrub Recipes that I highly recommend checking out.

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How did your homemade sugar scrub with essential oils recipe turn out? Did your kids give the DIY sugar scrubs as gifts?