Lets Talk soap: Salt Scrubs
I went to deliver some gift basket for two moms to be. I called it the Mom-To-Bee set. In the gift basket, I have a new item I created called Baby Bump Belly butter, which will be part of my product line if all, goes well. I also added bath teas, Oatmeal, Milk and Honey Bee soap, a candy bar for mom and a tube of beeswax-chapped stick. I did not make the Chap Stick since I ran out of time.
I also added a large tub of sea salt scrub. I had someone ask me about salt scrubs so I was telling her how easy they are to make with just a few ingredients.
Salt scrubs or salt glows are used at the high-end salons, and the benefits for using them are amazing… Salt scrubs remove dead skin, open, and clean out the pores, and helps with circulation.
What I thought I would do is share a couple of recipes so you can make your own.
Hey, Andrea this is for you enjoy.
I make two different kinds one that is oil based and one that is glycerin based. I personally refer the oil based because I like the thin layer of oil is leaves after I rinse off.
I am going to share a few different recipes for oil based salt scrubs.
Salt Glow
1 cups of salt
1 cups oil light oil like apricot of Sweet almond oil
1 cups of liquid soap
Mix all the ingredients and massage into the skin use a light touch until you are used to it. Shower as usual.
Salt Glow 2
1/4 cup almond oil
¼ cup melt and pour glycerin soap
½ cup sea salt
Place oil and soap in double boiler and melt gently. Stir well. Slowly stir in sea salt. Once all ingredients are well combined, remove from the heat. Pour into wide mouth jars. If you fluff it with a fork as it cools it resembles shaved ice. Add a label that state if separates to stir well.
Salt Glow 3
2 Cups Fine Sea Salt
4 Cups Grape seed, Apricot or Sweet Almond Oil
20-30 Drops Essential oil of choice, Lemon is recommended.
Place salt in a wide mouthed jar and cover with grape seed, apricot, or sweet almond oil
scent with Essential oil.
To use, dampen your entire body. Using either your hands or a loofah mitt,
vigorously but gently, massage the salt and oil mixture into the skin. Begin at the
feet and work upward in a circular motion. Be careful to avoid any scratched or
wounded areas. When you have massaged the entire body, rinse with warm
water. Finish with a dry towel rub.
Note: Never put salt scrubs in your face for those who want to have a scrub that is more facial friendly here is a sugar scrub recipe adapted from Snowdriftfarms.com. Most of the ingredients you would need to get from a supplier like Snow Drift Farms
Sugar Scrub
Dry Phase
1 cup demerarra, raw, pure cane or “sugar in the raw” sugar
1/8 cup Natrasorb
Liquid Phase
1/4 cup wheat germ oil
1 tablespoon vegetable glycerin USP
1/8 – 1/4 cup polysorbate 20
1/4 teaspoon wheat protein
1/4 teaspoon silk protein
1/8 -1/4 teaspoon rosewood essential oil (optional)
1/16th teaspoon rosemary oil extracts (ROE)
1/16th teaspoon Phenonip
Process:
In a stainless steel or glass bowl, mix dry ingredients. In a larger stainless or glass bowl, mix the liquid phase with a wire whisk. Drizzle liquid phase over dry phase and mix thoroughly. (If this is for your own use, use your clean hand to do this. If being prepared for sale, use a gloved hand.) Pack into plastic tub and shower safe jars.
While making my last batch of soap I discovered something neat. If you add a tablespoon of unrefined Shea butter to your batch of soap after trace, you will produce a creamy, moisturizing bar of soap. The soap will leave a nice thin layer of moisturized protection on your skin. This process is called super fatting it is like applying lotion before you get out of the tub. This is what Susan Miller Cavitch has to say about supper fatting from her book The Natural Soap Book…”To super fat soap is to leave unsaponified oils in the final bars for a less harsh and more emollient soap. These unsaponified oils do not form compounds with the other soap making components, but instead remain in the original form within the bars”.
