I have a simple diy lip scrub recipe for you that you can use for yourselves or to make a gift for the holidays.
I saw the +/- 30 euro lip scrubs from Sarah Happ and although they look divine, I didn't feel like spending so much (again) on a little pot of sugar, since that is the key ingredient of lip scrubs. I recently bought the Dior Sugar Lip Scrub and the Clinique Lip Scrub Pot and although they are very fine products, I felt like I had spent too much money on something that doesn't last very long.
The ingredients I use can be replaced or complemented with anything you like. The basic idea is that I add a fine sugar and an oil, a bit of rose essential oil, food grade dye and plant based glycerin.
Ingredients:
- Physalis Ricinus Oil (you can use any natural base oil, but I prefer not to use oils that smell like almond, apricot seed, grapeseed...).
- Physalic Rose Essential oil
- Some fine white cristal sugar (any fine sugar will done, but best is to use white and not cane if you want a crisp clear color from the dye, and brown sugar if you want to really darken the dye).
- Vegetable glycerin
- Vahiné red food dye
In a bowl, add as much base oil as you like. Add a bit of glycerin and a few drops of rose essential oil. For no color, don't add food dye. For a ligt pink color, add one drop of red food dye. For deep red use 5 drops of food dye. For very dark scrubs, add the brown sugar until you get a snowy like, dry scrub. For clear scrubs, add white or cane sugar.
I use "regular" size sugar, the type you add to coffee, but as you can see in the pic, it's a little graney. I was thinking of using extra fine sugar, but was afraid of dissolving it. But maybe if I throw in enough at once, it can't dissolve. Extra fine sugar might give me that really velvetty effect. I will try it once I have this type of sugar.
Enjoy making this lovely rose lip scrub.
x
Helena
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