Lavender Honey Sugar Scrub

This honey and lavender sugar scrub gently exfoliates your skin, leaving it soft, silky and smooth. It’s especially wonderful to use on your feet, elbows and knees.

It’s also easy to make!

a small saucer of honey plus a sugar scrub with lavender

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Here’s what you’ll need:

  • a scant 1/2 cup (104 g) cane sugar
  • 1 to 3+ tablespoons (10 to 30 g) lavender-infused oil
  • 1 teaspoon (6 g) honey
  • 3 to 4 drops of lavender essential oil
  • natural preservative, if not using your scrub up quickly (see note below)
bottle of lavender essential oil with honey and sugar

And how to make it:

  • Combine the lavender essential oil and lavender infused oil, then mix with all of the ingredients together in a bowl.
  • Start with 1 tablespoon of oil and add more as needed. Depending on how fine or coarse your sugar is, you may need to add a little more oil at a time until it’s a consistency you like. If it feels too oily, add more sugar.
  • The recipe will make enough to fit in a small 4-ounce jelly jar.
  • To use, scoop out and gently rub on dry areas of skin.
  • Rinse well with warm water.
  • If you plan on keeping this more than a week or so, it’s recommended that you add a preservative to keep icky things from growing in case water accidentally gets mixed in during use.

A natural preservative option is Phytocide Elderberry OS – mix it into the oil before adding to the scrub. Usage rate is 1 to 5%. So if you use 1/2 cup sugar (120 ml) and 2 tablespoons of oil (30 ml) and 1 teaspoon honey (5 ml) in this recipe – that equals a total of 155 ml.

3.25% of 155 ml of scrub = about 5 ml, or 1 teaspoon of Phytocide Elderberry OS.

Another option that’s not natural, but is paraben and formaldehyde-free is Optiphen, used at a rate of up to 1.5%. (0.8% of 155 ml = 1.24 ml or about 1/4 teaspoon Optiphen.)

See my article, 10 Natural Preservatives for Homemade Skincare, for more information.

fresh lavender plant beside a tin of homemade lavender salve

Love lavender? (Me too!) :)

I have links to more lavender ideas and projects, plus a free printable lavender “cheat sheet” in my article:

10+ Things to Make with Lavender

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Jan Berry is a writer, herbalist, soapmaker, avid forager, and bestselling author of The Big Book of Homemade Products, Simple & Natural Soapmaking, and Easy Homemade Melt & Pour Soaps. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains with her family and a menagerie of animals, where she enjoys brainstorming creative things to make with the flowers and weeds that grow around her.