Mint Sugar Scrub


I needed Christmas gift ideas for my co-workers and I didn’t want to do any food gifts (too many on special diets) J  So, was surfing Pinterest to get inspired and came across this very cute sugar scrub.

L-O-V-E sugar scrub and I’m currently very attracted to mint green.  Sent the pin to Tori to see if she wanted to make these with me for her co-workers too.  Funny, she had pinned the same thing…..great minds!!!!
 
(Click here to go to original site for instructions)
We planned an evening to make these, picked up what was needed.  All ready to dive in.
Directions called for 1 TBS of peppermint extract, wow that seemed like a lot.  It ended up we didn’t have enough extract, so we put everything on hold, jumped in the car to run to the nearest store.  NO peppermint extract, ran to the next nearest store, NO, not again…….NO peppermint extract.  December is probably the only month of the year that the grocery stores run out of peppermint extract.  Off to a third store, 30 minutes later we end up back at the house with LOTS of peppermint extract.  (I think we’re set for a couple of years, hope it has a long shelf life).   First batch - mixed the coconut oil, sugar and extract together with ease.  Determined that 1 TBS of peppermint WAS too much for our liking, so we only put about half the extract in the second batch.  We did one batch of pink and one of green (they were both peppermint scent). 


 

They turned out very cute and the ladies all loved them.  Found the cute “Santa Baby” label on Pinterest.  Used some Christmas scrapbook paper to cover the lid.  I used a little raffia on some and some twine (not pictured) on some of the others.
This was so fast and easy to make, I’m going to keep my eyes open at the thrift stores for cute jars for future gifts. 
Love you all ~~Mitzi

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