5 DIY Body Scrub Recipes for Summer

It’s so easy to make these 5 DIY body scrub recipes. With incredible aromas and deep exfoliating properties, these summery homemade body scrub recipes are easy, natural, and perfect for a spa night at home. Here you will find recipes for rose, lavender, lemon, ginger and mint sugar scrubs. A handy skin care tutorial is also included with tips for using and storing your homemade sugar scrubs.

Why Should You Make DIY Body Scrubs

Making a body scrub at home is easy and cheap. You probably already have the ingredients in your kitchen. So why not take a few minutes and a few pennies to make a deliciously scented sugar scrub that will leave your skin feeling moisturized and silky smooth?

Benefits of Exfoliating

• It helps remove dead skin cells. 
• When you exfoliate your body and face it allows your other skin care products to penetrate more deeply and work better.
• It can increase your circulation, which helps you have healthy glowing skin.
• It unclogs your pores from dirt, blackheads, and other surface impurities.
• Exfoliating also helps your skin turn over its top dermal layer more frequently so that you can address skin issues such as dryness and flakiness.

How to Make a Basic DIY Body Scrub

It’s easy to make a DIY body scrub at home. You just need to follow four simple steps that seriously take less than 5 minutes of work.

Step 1: Oils

First you’ll need to choose your carrier oil. Fractionated Coconut oil, olive oil, and jojoba oil all work great. Using a liquid oil ensures that the scrubs don’t harden later. Mix in a few drops of any favorite essential oils and vitamin E oil also.

Essential oils not only lend a natural scent, but they also provide additional skincare benefits. If you have sensitive skin, reduce the amount of essential oils or omit them completely.

Vitamin E nourishes and moisturizes, keeping your skin hydrated and supple. As a potent antioxidant, vitamin E oil also fights free radicals and may prevent premature signs of aging. We always start with the oils and then move to the dry ingredients.

Step 2: Sugar

Now that the oil base is complete, we’ll mix the sugar and dry ingredients. Obviously, sugar is the main exfoliant in a sugar-based body scrub. I mostly used fine, granulated sugar (caster sugar) as it provides gentle exfoliation, but brown sugar will also work if that’s all you have on hand. Just keep in mind that if you use brown sugar your scrub won’t look the same.

If you are using Mica powder or plant powder to add color or other dry ingredients such as flower buds, add them now. Fruit and plant powders are the most natural colorants for scrubs, but they tend to be pricier than the other options. Micas, fine cosmetic powders, are a cost-effective and readily available colorants for sugar scrubs.

Step 3: Mix

Stir the oils and sugar mixture together until it’s all well combined.

Step 4: Storage

Transfer your sugar scrub into an airtight container such as a mason jar and store it until you’re ready to use it.. Since these DIY body scrub recipes for summer don’t use any water, you don’t have to use a preservative. Just be sure that no water enters the storage container during use.

How to Use DIY Body Scrub

Apply the body scrub to your skin and gently massage a small amount in circular motions, then rinse with warm water. You can use this gentle sugar scrub as a body scrub in the shower. Sugar scrubs are best for exfoliating hands, feet, elbows, knees, arms and legs.

Handy tip: Keep a small container of your body scrub by the kitchen sink to help wash any food odors off your hands after cooking and to moisturize your skin after washing dishes!

The Best DIY Body Scrub Recipes for Summer

I’m so excited for you to try these body scrub recipes out for yourself. Or for you to give as a sweet homemade gift to a friend. While these sugar scrubs are sure to impress, they are also quite simple. People won’t believe you made them with ingredients you already had at home!

This selection of summer sugar scrub recipes is super similar to my Holiday sugar scrubs lineup, and also my Face scrub recipes in that they all start with an easy oil base. The process is speedy and easy. Perfect for beginners even if you’ve never made a homemade skincare recipe before or you just need cute last-minute summer gift ideas.

Homemade Summer Body Scrubs

DIY Rose Body Scrub

First up is a rose sugar scrub. This body scrub feels incredibly pampering on the skin and will leave your entire body baby smooth. Infused with rose otto, it gently exfoliates to reveal smoother, fresher skin. If you can’t find rose otto, use 2 tbsp rose water. Since rosewater is hydrous, use the product quickly or add a preservative to make your rose body scrub last longer.

DIY Lavender Body Scrub

This lavender scrub is perfect for cleansing and exfoliating, helping to lift away dead skin cells and prepare the skin for moisture. Lavender essential oil has numerous skincare uses. Adding this oil to your sugar scrub can benefit several skin issues.

I can’t tell you how much I love everything Lavender. It’s so calming and homey to me. Lavender was my very first choice when I started making my own body scrubs at home. Lavender oil’s anti-inflammatory properties soothe and nourish dry skin, while antioxidants help protect the skin from free radical damage. Lavender may even help with eczema and psoriasis.

Lemon Sugar Scrub

This lemon sugar scrub leaves skin soft and silky. This exfoliating homemade sugar scrub with lemon essential oil is ideal for normal to oily skin types. It’s also a great hand scrub for in the kitchen because it washes away any funky food odors.

In a scrub, lemon nourishes cleanses, exfoliates, and clears up skin issues such as oiliness, acne, and cellulite. Lemon body scrub lightens and evens out the skin tone.

Ginger Scrub for Cellulite

This Ginger Cellulite Scrub is incredibly easy to make and takes only a few household ingredients. Plus, if you like the smell of ginger, you will LOVE LOVE LOVE the way it smells! This recipe makes enough for 10 uses but can easily be doubled or tripled and stored in the refrigerator.

Refreshing Mint & Lime Scrub

If you need a fresh morning start, this mint sugar scrub is for you. This homemade sugar scrub will leave your skin supremely soft and refined, and it’s also perfect for sloughing away dead skin cells. This DIY sugar scrub should be part of your morning routine; the minty scent revitalizes and will help you wake up!

After you try these DIY body scrub recipes, be sure to tell me which one you liked the best!