We love a great sugar scrub recipe to help your skin feel luxurious and pampered! This citrus basil sugar scrub recipe is a great refreshing choice for an at-home spa experience. With a few simple ingredients you likely already have on hand, you can assemble a wonderful sugar scrub recipe that is perfect for brightening your day!
Citrus Basil Sugar Scrub Recipe
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One of my favorite scents from Bath & Body Works has always been the Citrus Basil lotions and scrubs. However, as they often do - this scent of body scrub was retired a few years back and is now no longer available. What do you do? You create your own homemade sugar scrub recipe instead!
A few ingredients already on hand bring this simple sugar body scrub to life in minutes. I love using my essential oils to give this a bright scent, but you can easily cut back on the number of drops in the recipe if you feel the scent is too strong. That's one of the best parts of making a homemade sugar scrub recipe. You can truly adapt it to your own preferences.
Ingredients:
1 cup granulated sugar
2 Tbsp. Bronner's Citrus Orange Castile soap
2 Tbsp. coconut oil
10 drops basil essential oil
10 drops orange essential oil
5 drops lemon essential oil
Directions:
Finely grate the zest of an entire orange. Be careful to get just the orange zest and not the white pith beneath as it doesn't offer the scent you are wanting for this sugar scrub recipe.
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and stir until thoroughly combined. If you prefer a looser texture add more coconut oil until the consistency is how you like it .
Add essential oil beginning with 5 drops of each kind, continue adding to get the intensity you prefer. Since citrus essential oils are very strong, you may want to test a patch on your skin before adding more. Some are more sensitive to the oils than others, and although it has a great carrier oil (coconut oil) in this sugar scrub recipe, it's important to follow safety guidelines when using essential oils.
Transfer to a container with an airtight lid - if you are using citrus essential oils this should be a glass container or the oils will break down your plastic.
If you like this beautiful sugar scrub recipe, you'll love our others! These are perfect for gift giving, or simply pampering yourself! Ideal for holidays, birthdays, and even teachers gifts a sugar scrub recipe can be made in bulk to save money or made in small batches to customize for the individual receiving the gift.
Double or quadruple the recipe, divvy up into an attractive jar, and add a handmade tag for a great gift for anyone. Be sure and get therapeutic grade essential oils to create the best product for your skin as well as organic coconut oil.
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Creative Mama Renee
I love the combination of citrus and basil together! Great tip about storing this in glass and not plastic!
lorraine williamson
thanks for the tutorial love this idea have a great day
Theresa @DearCreatives
I haven't made a citrus scrub in such a long time. This looks like a great recipe. Pinning for later.
Nicole Neverman
I think I need to make this solely based on how delicious I'll smell 🙂 If you had a spare moment, I would be delighted if you'd drop this (and anything else you'd like to share) by at the #PureBlogLove anything goes link party! You can find me here: https://picnicnz.blogspot.co.nz/
GinaB
This looks divine. I will definitely be adding it to my collection of sugar scrubs.
Amy @ Ms. Toody Goo Shoes
I've never made anything like this, but this looks and sounds amazing! Pinning it to try!Stopping by from Best of the Weekend!
Amy @ Ms. Toody Goo Shoes
Hi Jody, just letting you know I am featuring this body scrub on Best of the Weekend tonight!
Jessica
I don't have Basil Essential Oil, so I chop it up, and just toss it in my scrub, the texture is amazing! Also I use both lemon & orange zests, not sure if your recipe called for just orange?
Thanks for the reminder on using glass containers for Citrus Scrubs!! I'm just a few months in to the spa products world, and there is so much to remember!!
Gabrielle
Hi - Thanks for the post.
I am looking to making this as gifts this holiday season. I can't seem to find how much one batch makes in the post. Can someone that has tried this recipe please let me know how many oz will the recipe make? Sorry if I missed it posted somewhere.
Katie
Hi Gabrielle - it makes a little over 1 cup. After mixing, it is a bit fluffier so not a packed 8ounces, but loose cup. 🙂
Gabrielle
Great! Thanks!
Michelle
how long does this last?
Katie
I would keep about 1 month 🙂
Priya
If you add the zest of an orange, how long will the scrub last for? (How long is the shelf life?) does the oil preserve the orange zest?
Katie Hale
It lasts about 1 month from my own personal experience.