With the sunny days coming back, we want to get a new look and to take care of us.
It's a bit like spring cleaning the house.
So, I found you, a great recipe for a body scrub made with coconut and vanilla sugar to make at home.
The kind of care so soft and pleasant that you can't do without it. Yum!
This is a super easy recipe, which I tested and approved. It's very simple, my skin has regained its softness and suppleness, a real happiness that made me travel to Polynesia. My gourmet side could almost have eaten it as this scrub smells so good.
60 ml of coconut oil, 6 large tablespoons of shea butter, 3 tablespoons of grated coconut, 1 sachet of vanilla sugar. A bowl, a spatula and an airtight jar.
Put the Shea butter in a bowl and work it with the spatula to obtain a more melting and creamy texture. Then, gradually incorporate the coconut oil to obtain a homogeneous mixture. Both should form a smooth paste. You can finally mix in the grated coconut and the sachet of vanilla sugar. Mix again. All you have to do is put your scrub in a nice airtight jar.
In the shower or after the bath, still on already washed and damp skin, take a dab of scrub and massage your body using light circular movements. Smell, let yourself be transported... Then rinse. Don't forget to moisturize your skin when you get out of the shower to keep your skin soft and elastic. In an airtight jar, this treatment can easily be kept for 3 months.
Coconut has moisturizing and softening properties for the skin, it contains in particular Zinc and copper with healing, softening and useful properties to fight against aging of the skin. Shea, softened repairer, moisturizes, protects and soothes. It is not for nothing that it has always been used by African women. Powdered coconut with its fine grains and smaller sugar grains form an ideal exfoliating duo to gently erase roughness and dead skin.
Shea butter and coconut oil are very easy to find in organic stores, coconut and vanilla sugar in supermarkets.
Often in stores they offer us raw Shea butter (yellowish in color and fragrant) or refined (white and fragrance-free). I prefer by far, to choose the crude which has kept all its beneficial properties.
So, if this trick has made you want to try it or if you know of equally pleasant and tasty alternatives, come and share all this with us in the comments.
By doing a lot of my home care, I realized that it allowed me for a lower investment to have more different care and really adapted to my needs.
For example, here raw Shea butter, €4.66 for 150 ml, coconut oil €4.85 for 100 ml, grated coconut and vanilla sugar around €4, the bill amounts to one fifteen euros. But with all this you can redo several scrubs and even other treatments that I would be happy to share with you. While buying ready-made care in specialized or organic stores, you will certainly only pay around ten euros at the most, but for how many uses?
