Simple Chocolate Body Scrub

This is a really simple recipe for a moisturizing body scrub. It uses brown sugar and oatmeal flour for a really gentle exfoliating experience. Cocoa powder and powdered milk (you can also use flavored creamer - french vanilla or hazelnut would add a faint, but yummy scent!) adds a subtle frangrance - if you want something a little more lasting, adding vanilla, orange or chocolate fragrance or essential oils will do the trick.

In this first video, Eli shows how simple it is to mix up the ingredients. Notice how he adds the dry ingridents first, then moves to the oils. His basic oil is a blend of olive (for its moisturizing properties) and canola (which is lighter and blends well with the heaviness of the olive oil). The scent of Eli's scrub here is AMAZING! It smells just like those chocolate oranges you whack to open at Christmas - yummy.





The ingredient list is simple and if you are lucky, most will be in your pantry right now. Eli also shows you how to pack the scrub for use in the shower. Remember, the scrub is made with food ingredients and should be used within a month or two from making it up.



In this video post, Eli shows how easy it is to make oatmeal flour. Oatmeal flour is a great addition to scrubs and it also can be used directly into a bath for a soothing soak. Oatmeal flour also makes a wonderful facial mask - simply mix some up with yogurt or sour cream (both contain latic acid, an AHA) and spread on your face and leave for about 10 minutes.



Simple Chocoate Body Scrub Recipe:

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup oatmeal flour
• 3 tbs cocoa powder
• 3 tbs milk powder
• about 3/4 cup oil mixture (use more if needed)
• a few drops chocolate and orange essential oils