Sweeten Your Skincare Routine with this Homemade Apple Pie Body Scrub Recipe

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Learn how to make a DIY apple pie body scrub with honey and brown sugar! This easy, natural blend exfoliates and hydrates your skin, leaving it soft and glowing, and uplifts your spirits with the cozy, comforting scents of fall! 

This easy homemade body scrub recipe comes together in under 5 minutes. My apple pie homemade exfoliating scrub can be used on your entire body, is suitable for sensitive skin, and makes a wonderful DIY holiday gift!

The Best DIY Apple Spice Body Scrub

If you’ve been following Green Beauty Mama for a while, you know I am a sucker for all the autumn scents. Give me anything pumpkin or pumpkin spice, apple or spiced apple, chai spiced. What fall scents am I forgetting? 

There’s no better way to easily incorporate those yummy scents into your homemade beauty arsenal than with a easy sugar scrub. Why? Because they are so simple to make and use. The ingredient list is small. Coconut oil, either white or brown sugar, honey, a few spices and of course, some essential oils. You probably already have almost everything you need to make this easy DIY sugar scrub in your pantry! 

And here’s a bonus, this scrub recipe can be made with basic spices if you don’t have the recommended essential oils! Perfect for newbies to making their own bath and body products.

Here’s What You’ll Need to make Apple Pie Exfoliating Scrub

Brown Sugar: You’ll start with a base of brown sugar. This is the main exfoliator in the scrub. Brown sugar contains molasses and molasses softens the skin while stimulating the production of lactic acid, which provides excellent protection against various damaging skin conditions.

Coconut oil: Coconut oil is a great oil to put in a sugar scrub because it’s solid at room temperature. coconut oil makes your scrub creamy and really helps to moisturize and nourish your freshly exfoliated skin.

Honey: Honey is known for its anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties, making it a great addition to the sugar scrub. Since it’s also a humectant, honey attracts moisture to your skin.

Apple pie spice – This spice blend contains cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cardamom. These are all warming and invigorating spices, perfect as the weather starts to turn colder. 

For each batch of  Apple Pie Spiced Sugar Scrub you’ll need: 

• 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom

These spices will add an uplifting scent to your sugar scrub. If you already have a commercial Apple Pie Spice blend in your pantry, feel free to use it instead. You’ll simply substitute 1 Tablespoon for the spice blend above. 

If you wish, you can stop here, these ingredients will make a complete spiced sugar scrub. But adding a few essential oils can further enhance the apple pie spice aroma and skincare benefits.

Recommended Essential Oils:

• 2 drops of cinnamon leaf essential oil
• 2 drops of clove essential oil
• 2 drops of ginger essential oil
• 2 drops lemongrass essential oil
• 1 drop of nutmeg essential oil
• 2 drops of bergamot essential oil

I included bergamot and lemongrass to give the apple pie scrub a fruity note. 

Please note:. This sugar scrub smells fantastic without essential oils. If you are pregnant or have skin sensitivities to essential oils you will want to omit these, but you will still get an amazing homemade sugar scrub with apple pie spice.

Step by step instructions for making your apple spice sugar scrub. 

Step 1. In a small sauce pan, heat the coconut oil and honey, gently stirring until the coconut oil has melted and the honey is completely incorporated.

Step 2. Let your oil mixture cool for a few minutes. Then add the essential oils, if you are including those. 

Step 3. Add the brown sugar and the apple pie spice blend to the oil mixture and stir well to combine. 

Step 4: Transfer the sugar scrub into clean, sterilized jars.

Tips For Using Your Apple Pie Body Scrub

This apple pie body scrub feels like a spa treatment and will fill your bathroom with the sweet smell of fall treats.

How to use: Using a spoon or clean fingertips, apply scrub to wet skin. Massage the scrub over your body in gentle, circular motions. Then rinse away and towel dry. I recommend using the scrub during  showers or baths

Where to use: Rub the product on your hands, legs, elbows, feet, or anywhere that you deal with dry skin. You can use this scrub 2 to 3 times per week. But If you have sensitive skin, you may need to limit yourself to once per week. 

Storing your homemade scrub: This body scrub recipe stores well and can be kept for a year. If the scent lessens before then, try adding a few more drops of essential oils and stirring them in. 

More sugar scrub recipes & pumpkin spice crafts to try:

whipped pumpkin spice body butter – This homemade whipped body butter recipe is perfect for your fall skincare routine and is made with skin-loving ingredients.

pumpkin spice bath salts – You’ll love this pumpkin spice latte-inspired bath salts recipe.

DIY pumpkin spice soap – One of my favorite fall DIY soap recipes!

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