Homemade Spa Essentials

By: Brie Cadman (View Profile)

Grapefruit Ginger Body Scrub
I love the smell of invigorating grapefruit. Not only will this scrub polish your rough spots, it’ll wake you up!

Ingredients:

1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sea salt or Epsom salts
1/2 cup honey
1 teaspoon ground almond pieces
4 tablespoons grapefruit juice
2 teaspoons freshly ground ginger

Mix all the ingredients in a Tupperware or large stainless steel bowl. While standing in shower or bathtub, scrub backs of arms, legs, and rough spots with body polish. Rinse off with warm water. 

Herbal Mint Steam Clean
When your face is hanging over a steaming bowl of water, there’s really no other choice but to relax. This is like taking tea for your face.

Ingredients:

One chamomile tea bag
One green tea bag
Two springs of lavender
Two sprigs of mint
3 cups water

Boil water in a teakettle. Rip open tea bags and place contents in large bowl with lavender and mint. Pour in boiling water and lean face over bowl, covering head with a towel.

Now eat all the leftovers!

For some great homemade recipes for body soaks and hair therapy, see Do-It-Yourself Spa.

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posted: 10.22.2008
JD Withehld
Some of these look great! I will have to try them out soon too! I can use the ones with tea tho, cuz I am allergic to it :( LOL
posted: 10.22.2008
Dana
I think I'll try these this weekend with my daughter! Thank you!
posted: 10.21.2008
Ayo Ashanti
Thanks so much for sharing! Just today, I was looking for spa treatments recipes. If you have more, please share.
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