Jojoba & peppermint lip scrub
Yesterday we tried a pear coconut lip scrub; today, let's take a look at changing a few things!
The original lip scrub my best friend loves contains jojoba oil and peppermint essential oil as the flavouring, so I thought I'd try that. As per yesterday, I took my regular boring ol' white sugar for a spin in a clean coffee grinder to turn it into very small crystal berry-type sugar. (This is not the place for something like large crystalled plantation sugar!)
PEPPERMINT JOJOBA LIP SCRUB
69.5% finely ground or berry sugar
21.4% golden jojoba oil
8.7% fractionated coconut oil
0.4% peppermint essential oil
If you don't have berry sugar, put your sugar into a coffee grinder and blend for maybe 10 seconds to produce a fine sugar. You don't want to grind it too long as you'll end up with powdered sugar, which won't scrub that well. (Ask me how I know this!)
Into a container, weigh the jojoba oil, fractionated coconut oil, and peppermint essential oil, and mix well. Add the sugar, mix until it is like wet sand, then spoon into your container.
Package this in a small container - I'm using 30 ml jars from Voyageur Soap & Candle* - and use a small spatula* or spoon to remove it from the container to put on your lips.
Why did I use jojoba oil" I used it because it was in the original recipe and I thought I'd try it. I added the fractionated coconut oil because I thought the product was getting too expensive and too thick with just the jojoba oil. The l...
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