As we continue to spend all our freakin' time working on getting the links to the PDFs working on the blog, please enjoy this post on making a lip scrub! 

My best friend, Wanda, is in love with a certain company's lip scrub, which seems to consist of a few ingredients like jojoba oil, peppermint, and sugar. I thought I'd make my own version of this for her birthday!

If I were to make an ingredient list for the first version I did using the pear coconut sweetened lip balm flavouring from Windy Point*, the first ingredient would be sugar. The second, oil, and the third, flavouring. That's it. You could make this more complex - and I did, as you'll see - but this turned out so nice!

PEAR COCONUT LIP SCRUB
67.4% berry or finely ground sugar 31% fractionated coconut oil
1.6% pear coconut flavouring (pre-sweetened)

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 your fractionated coconut oil and pear coconut flavouring, 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 choose to use fractionated coconut oil in this re...