Sugar Body Polish Recipe

"Sugar Body Polish - ready to use"

Simple Sugar Body Polish

Take a glass jar (preferably brown or blue glass) and fill with sugar two centimeters from the top.

Pour in a cold pressed body oil (almond, jojoba) scented with your favourite essential oils, until sugar is completely coated and the mixture appears creamy.

Add three teaspoons of runny honey. Use a fork to blend it in until it becomes slightly thick.

For a thinner consistency add less honey and more oil

For a thicker consistency add more sugar and less honey.

Label with instructions to massage onto wet skin (in the shower with the water off is ideal), use firm circular strokes, especially on tough dry skin. Avoid sensitive or broken skin. Once skin feels vibrant and fresh - wash off in warm water, you won't need soap. Apply body oil straight after the shower, into wet skin, to trap in moisture.

Caution to users it will make the floor of the shower very slipper - so be very careful.

The Humble Washcloth

As part of my series on eliminating chemicals from your skincare routines, I would like to address the concept of exfoliants.

Exfoliants for face, exfoliants for body, exfoliants for elbows, knees and feet......why?

Our bodies are constantly making new skin cells, and as it does the older skin cells get pushed up to the surface of our skin where they are prone to drying out, dying and therefore flaking off. Exfoliants help to remove these dead skin cells. If left on our skin they can build up and cause our skin to look dull and lifeless.

But why do we get sucked into the marketing hype? Probably because it is constant hype (if you hear something enough you start to believe it!).

Often when looking at how to live a more natural existence I look back to what our forebears did....back in a time before nasty chemicals were combined into the modern chemical cocktails of today.

Back in that time they used washcloths (facecloths, flannels) for washing with everyday. Lather up the soap and wash with a washcloth - it's a gentle and regular exfoliant, it's reusable, doesn't come with extra packaging nor flamboyant excessive marketing.

And if you need more than a washcloth on your really dry skin, like elbows, knees and heels try this luxurious body scrub recipe.

Happy Scrubbing.