DIY facial scrub

[Steve valentine]

Poor mans swarfega, teaspoon of sugar, dollop of washing up liquid, cleans the grimiest of grimy hands

[Totally Scrambled]

Poor mans swarfega, teaspoon of sugar, dollop of washing up liquid, cleans the grimiest of grimy hands

Not too good for the face though, especially if you are a lady.
Dom

[Steve valentine]

Poor mans swarfega, teaspoon of sugar, dollop of washing up liquid, cleans the grimiest of grimy hands

Not too good for the face though, especially if you are a lady.
Dom

I've just checked and I'm pretty sure I'm not, but thanks for the heads up Dom

[davina112]

I tried the suar and olive oil last night after a day out gardening, it worked well, thank you Willow

[Babycakes]

I made lots of jars of sugar scrub for christmas presents. They are scented with essential oils (peppermint or lemon) and they have so far kept well in their washed out and sterilised jam jars. Also did brown sugar and vanilla, and experimented with honey and oatmeal sugar scrub. Great for the bath for exfoliating all over, especially heels, knees and elbows. I'm also under orders to bring some in for my colleagues in work who home tan, apparently the bottled fake bake goes on more evenly when you've exfoliated well.

[madmum]

Hi BBC I think we need a recipe.....They sound fab.

[Babycakes]

I dont really have a recipe as such. I made in bulk, so I bought a kilo bag of sugar (around 90p) and a litre of ordinary veg oil (about £1.20 I think)

Put the sugar in a large bowl. Add a good glug of oil, stir and stir and stir until mixed evenly. Have a feel, if it seems a bit dry add more oil, if it's too runny add more sugar. Once you've got it how you want it, add about 20 drops of oil and mix really well. Sniff, add more oil if you want.

I also put in the zest of 4 lemons done on the zesting part of the cheese grater into the lemon one - if I was doing it again I'd do it on the fine/micro grater so I actually got very thin strips of zest rather than the tiny bits that vanished. I made a brown sugar one which I put seeds from 2 vanilla pods in. The oatmeal one, I threw a couple of handfuls of porridge ots intot he dry sugar and mixed them before puttingh the oil in, I also put extra oil in that one to allow for the oats absorbing some.

[madmum]

Thanks for that it sounds so simple and would make fab pressies

[Babycakes]

It made lovely presents. I had saved up nicely-shaped jars, I printed out some labels I found for free online and mod podged them ontot he jars and lids, then tied a pretty ribbon around the neck of the jar.

Beware though the oil will leak out a tiny bit once they've been stored for a while!