Body Scrub with Coffee
This isn't one that uses coffee butter, as some of the recipes I've posted, such as the one for lipbalm does. This uses actual coffee, and it makes a great exfoliant for your body. This is *not* to drink!
Recipe:
3 Cups of Ground Coffee - never use the whole beans. Use fine ground for very sensitive skin or the courser ground for normal skin.
3/4 Cup of either (this is a personal choice, though you can try both - also halve the recipe and try both out this way) - Sugar in the Raw (grocery store) or Sea Salt (I use the finer ground rather than the really coarse ground), (grocery store, health food store).
5 Tablespoons Sweet Almond oil or another carrier oil of your choice.
.5% preservative unless you're going to use this all at once, right after making, which you can. If it's for a gift, I'd add the preservative - you cannot be too safe and it's a very small amount.
Mix all ingredients together, OR, if you'd like to try out both the sugar and salt scrub at the same time, as you'll have enough, use 1 1/2 cups of coffee in each and a little under 1/2 cup of salt and sugar in each. Also, half the carrier oil, about 2 1/2 to 3 Tablespoons. Mix if you're making both, in separate bowls. Add your preservative if making for gifts. This recipe can be doubled, tripled or make however much you want to.
You can also use the flavored coffee, ok, I love the vanilla flavored ones - also the hazelnut and many like the mocha/chocolatey coffees. Those work just as well and especially for gift-giving, if you make small jars up, you can do a few different flavors as a treat for someone.
To use:
Get in the shower - this is not for the bath. Use fairly hot water, as it opens your pores. Get good and wet, turn down the shower - then take the scrub (circular motions are good, getting someone else to do it is always better!) and rub all over. Smells great, increases circulation, exfoliates and takes dead skin off - but please, do NOT shave prior to doing this, it'll sting like crazy. This is for pampering and helping your skin to grow new cells, while shedding the old ones.
Rinse off, pat dry, be gentle and follow up with a nice cream or lotion. Enjoy - as always, any questions, please ask!
mn - 2007
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Comments: 27
So am I - right after I wrote this out and posted it, I made a pot of vanilla coffee, which I'm now drinking! There is also a coffee butter that smells JUST like a good french roast and makes great lipbalms - the butter is actually made with the oil from the coffee beans.
i have coffee i never drink that i might use for that..must really envigorate your skin..where do you get the preservative?
William - I'm picturing a bunch of people around you, sniffing! HA! Ginger root I've never tried, though our local fruit and veggie market does carry the root - I have the essential oil and it's one of the FEW that doesn't agree with me. I like the smell though.
Sounds good, I just might try it. My skin could use some help.
ETDA - I don't use it. Let's see.. where else - try www.soapersupplies.com, I "think" that's the right spelling, for the liquipar. The buying group usually carries it, she might just be out of it.
Yes, the body can absorb some of the coffee through the skin, but as you're using the grounds, instead of a liquid, and not having it on your skin that long, it won't absorb that much - you'll get much more from drinking it. Hmm, do both? :) My personal favorite - Vanilla Biscotti - Folgers in the bag, right now anyways, it changes.
Amanda? Wow, I didn't know cocaine was hidden in coffee!
Marilyn
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