Basic homemade body scrub recipes start with a carrier oil. You can use the oils in the recipes we’ll give you or swap them out with an oil of your choice. Some of the best oils include almond, coconut, apricot and olive. For the scrubbing ingredients, use sugar or salt of you want something that will exfoliate gently and eventually liquefy, which is good because you don’t want large particles of your body scrub clogging up your drain. Finally, pick your favorite flower essences and flower petals, and you’ll have a DIY scrub that will be relatively cheap and arguably better than a store-bought version.

Enjoy the following body scrub recipes and feel free to play around with them to make them just the scrub you want.

 

Energizing Lemon Verbena Scrub

Ingredients

2 cups sea salt

1/3 cup olive oil

8 drops lemon verbena essential oil

small handful of dandelion petals

Method

Combine salt, olive oil, lemon verbena essential oil and dandelion petals in a medium-sized jar. Stores for up to 2 months.

 

Soothing Lavender Scrub

Ingredients

1/2 cup sugar

4 tablespoons olive oil

2 drops lavender essential oil

small handful of lavender petals

Method

Combine sugar, olive oil, lavender essential oil and lavender petals in a medium-sized jar. Use immediately.

 

Lovely Rose Foot Scrub

Ingredients

1 cup sugar

8 tablespoons coconut oil

3 drops rose essential oil

small handful of rose petals

Method

Combine sugar, coconut oil, rose essential oil and rose petals in a medium-sized jar. Stores for up to 2 months.

 

If you make these scrubs, please come back and let us know how you liked them!