DIY Sugar Scrub Gift Set

Whether you’re whipping up a birthday gift or creating a homemade holiday gift exchange, this DIY sugar scrub gift set is a winner. Scrubs are made in just a few minutes and can take on any colors, scents, or themes you can dream up!

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DIY Spa and Scrub Gift Sets

Here at Ruffles and Rain Boots, I’ve been sharing DIY bath and beauty makes for more than a decade. I’ve put together so many spa gift sets, pampering gift sets, and just fun jars of homemade bath bombs, sugar scrubs, body butter, and other easy to make recipes from household ingredients.

My recipes are ALL tried and tested and have thousands of 5 star reviews, so you can be assured you won’t be wasting anything. Some popular sugar scrub recipes include:

• lemon sugar scrub cubes recipe – this combines sugar with soap and increases the life and ease of use for sugar scrubs
• foot scrub recipe – whether you make it in a fun mermaid theme or another, this recipe is just a sugar scrub packaged as a foot and heel prep for sandal season
• whipped sugar scrub recipe – a new take on a classic, this is REALLY fun as a two or three color presentation

Basic Sugar Scrub Recipe

When you’re just starting out, make a small batch and you will never have a fail. It will also allow for a TON of different colors, themes, and scents.

For a small batch, I recommend the following 5-minute sugar scrub recipe:

1. 1/2 cup granulated white sugar
2. 2.5 tablespoons coconut oil (or other oil, solid or liquid)
3. 4 drops of soap scent or food flavoring
4. 1/8th teaspoon (or less) mica powder (I recommend a mica powder set)

Place all items into a paper bowl and mix / mash with a spoon. Be sure all items are incorporated fully and that the mica powder is mixed in completely.

Sugar Scrub Recipes Shown Here

1. Lemon – used lemon extract and lemon rind with a gold mica powder
2. Chocolate – used cocoa powder and chocolate extract (no mica powder)
3. Strawberry – used strawberry extract and pistachio and pink mica powder
4. Tropical – used coconut flavoring and papaya and gold mica powder

Tips for Making, Storing, and Using Homemade Sugar Scrubs

• to create multi-color / multi-flavor in one container, split before adding the mica powder
• do not use food coloring, as it can stain skin, sinks, tubs, and containers)
• I like to make and gift small containers of scrubs so that they can use the entire container in one application
• sugar scrubs can last up to 6 months if stored in an air-tight, unopened container
• upon opening, scrubs should be used within a week (if exposed to water) or within a month (if scooped dry and the container is not exposed to water)
• use one of mine or make your own stickers and gift tags for the scrub containers

UV Printed Sugar Scrub Lids

I have been asked about this so I’m adding this section in here. For this set, I created four labels and put the lids into my xTool O1 UV printer. They came out like they were made in a factory!

If you have an inkjet or color laser printer, you can actually just print these onto sticker paper or print and cut them out like labels to put onto the lids. Download the sugar scrub label art here.

More Like This You Might Like

• Sugar Cookie Sugar Scrub Bar Recipe – A solid scrub is an easy scrub to use AND it is so easy to gift.
• Strawberry Coconut Sugar Scrub Recipe – One of my favorite combinations, this combination is a crowd pleaser.
• Gingerbread Sugar Scrub Recipe – If you’re making Christmas gift sets, this is a really popular and downright adorable way to present a scrub.

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