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Back to Basics: Homemade Lip Scrub with Sugar & Nourishing Oils

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Get super smooth, kissable lips naturally with a homemade lip scrub crafted with sweet sugar and nourishing oils. This exfoliating lip scrub ensures a sensually soft and flake-free pucker sure to keep you smiling with confidence!

Back to Basics: Homemade Lip Scrub with Sugar & Nourishing Oils

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Get super smooth, kissable lips naturally with a homemade lip scrub crafted with sweet sugar and nourishing oils. This exfoliating lip scrub ensures a sensually soft and flake-free pucker sure to keep you smiling with confidence!  In partnership with Mountain Rose Herbs, I am excited to offer you this sugar lip scrub recipe!

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I am a lip biter.

Not in that super cute, rom-com kinda way were the lady love interest turns away from the camera while sheepishly biting her lip and looking coyly up at her prospective beau.  {{{insert puking face emoji here}}}

No, me…  I am more a “bites lip while thinking, writing, reading, doing farm chores, foraging”– basically ANYTHING that requires a modicum of concentration — kinda lip biter.

The results?  Flaky, dry, desperate lips.

You guys…  I have a solution.  I should probably put it into practice more often.  Because a homemade lip scrub with sugar and rich, emollient oils is a sweet thing indeed.

What You Will Need For a Homemade Lip Scrub with Sugar

  • Sugar: I like to use a organic demerara or unrefined cane sugar.  The granules are somewhat larger but soften in the oils, providing good exfoliating action from this homemade lip scrub.
  • Coconut oil: The semi-solid state of coconut oil at room temperature make is a practical, as well as deeply nourishing oil to base for this sugar lip scrub.
  • Cocoa butter: This rich emollient butter leads a decadence and a subtle chocolate-y aroma to this exfoliating lip scrub.  These cocoa butter wafers are extremely easy use and melt beautiful, while also helping the  sugar particles in this homemade lip scrub say in suspension
  • Herbs: Never miss the opportunity to infuse some herbal goodness into warm oils and butters.  When making small-ish batches of this exfoliating lip scrub I like to use the double boiler method to infuse my oils.  My favorite herbs include calendula, peppermint and lemon balm.
  • Essential Oils: While totally optional, essential oils take this sugar lip scrub to an “ah, heck, I am going to spoil myself rotten” place.  Try ginger for rosy, plump lips, sweet orange for smooth and glow-y lips, or peppermint if you find your self craving Junior Mints or Andes after-dinner chocolate wafers.

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How to Use Your Sugar Lip Scrub

This exfoliating lip scrub should be applied to lightly damp lips.  Using clean hands and light, sweeping motions, gently massage the scrub on the lip surface.  Rinse with warm water and a washcloth.  This rich, nourishing exfoliating lip scrub is not only amazing for offering a soft and sweet pucker, but is also excellent for removing highly pigmented lipsticks and lip stains.

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Exfoliating Lip Scrub Recipe

Homemade Lip Scrub with Sugar

Get super smooth, kissable lips naturally with a homemade lip scrub crafted with sweet sugar and nourishing oils. This exfoliating lip scrub ensures a sensually soft and flake-free pucker sure to keep you smiling with confidence!   
This lips scrub is excellent for removing highly pigmented lipsticks and stains.
This recipe makes about three 2 ounce jars to keep for yourself and share with friends.
Author: Devon Young

Ingredients

  • 3 ounces coconut oil
  • 1 ounce cocoa butter
  • 1-1 1/4 cup organic cane or demerara sugar
  • 20-30 drops essential oil(s) of your choice

Instructions

  • In a double boiler over gently simmering water, melt coconut oil and cocoa butter until combined. (You can infuse you oil and butter with herbs are this point using the double boiler method)
  • Remove from heat (strain herbs if you infused your oil and butter in step #1) and stir in sugar and option essential oils.  Cool for ten minutes.
  • Stir vigorously and spoon into jars or tins.  Cool completely before placing lids on the containers.

To Use:

  • Apply onto damp lip and massage with gentle sweeping strokes.  Rinse thoroughly with warm water and a washcloth.

Want t to craft all of your own bath and beauty items.  I have soap, lotion, cream, toner, mask, and exfoliating facial scrub recipes too!

Homemade Sugar Scrub

 

Devon Young

Devon is a writer and author on subjects of holistic and sustainable living. She has a degree in Complementary and Alternative Medicine from the American College of Healthcare Sciences, and her books, The Backyard Herbal Apothecary and The Herbalist's Healing Kitchen, were published by Page Street Publishing in Spring 2019 and Fall 2019 respectively. Her NEW book, The Homegrown Herbal Apothecary, dedicating to growing a medicinal landscape publishes March 2024. Devon's work outside of NittyGrittyLife.com can be seen at LearningHerbs.com, GrowForageCookFerment.com, AttainableSustainable.net, and in the magazine The Backwoods Home.

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