I know I don’t often share “beauty” products, but after a summer spent in the mountains of Montana, I arrived back to California in need of some serious skincare. I love natural products with as few ingredients as possible, so rather than go to my local beauty supply, I decided to create a simple body scrub using only ingredients I had in my kitchen. The result was a spiced vanilla homemade sugar scrub that I will be using for months to come. I so love how this turned out, that I wanted to share the recipe with you all today!

The best part about this body scrub was that it took 5 minutes to make with only 4 ingredients that I already had in my pantry!

This body scrub only requires coconut oil, raw sugar (such as turbinado) or granulated sugar, vanilla extract and some fall spices.

I began by mixing the coconut oil with the raw sugar until I got the consistency I was looking for. Ultimately, I used two times the amount of sugar as coconut oil to arrive at a paste-like mixture. It might be necessary to increase the amount of sugar if you use a finer grain. You could also mix the two types of sugar if you prefer.

The coarser the sugar the more exfoliating the scrub will be.

I used a combination of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and clove to get that yummy pumpkin pie fragrance, but you could use any combination you like.

I decided to use glass hinge top jars to store my sugar scrub. I like the idea of being able to easily open the jar and then sealing it tight when I am done.

As I was experimenting, I realized I had more than I could use, so I decided to package up a few extra jars to give as gifts. This got me thinking that these would be great hostess gifts or teacher gifts! You could literally make a huge batch, fill jars and add a pretty tag in less than 30 minutes!

I decided to tie a wooden craft spoon to my jars for easy scooping and added a stick of cinnamon to reflect the fragrance.

Instead of a paper tag, which is not very practical in the shower, I made a metal tag stamped with “sugar scrub”.

Isn’t that the cutest thing!? I found this super easy metal stamping set at Michael’s which got my creative brain going and now I’m thinking of all kinds of thinks I could stamp onto metal! Haha!

In the end, I ended up with a delicious (literally…don’t taste this or you might end up eating it all) sugar body scrub that is ultra exfoliating and moisturizing. This is such a simple yet beautiful scrub and I will definitely be giving it to many friends in the coming months! If you have a great recipe for a homemade body scrub, please let me know or if you try this, I would love to hear how you like it!

Have a beautiful day!