Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs is giving away a free Sugar Scrub Printable Set — which includes a printable for the adorable paper canister shown above as well as the gift tags. You can find Kelleigh’s recipe for Homemade Sugar Scrub here. She estimates that this costs her about $0.26 per gift for all the ingredients needed.
If you’re one of my relatives reading this, you have my complete permission to make one of these as my Christmas gift, okay? 
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this link takes you to making vanilla sugar to eat-which sounds pretty darn good!
Oops, wrong link! I’m showcasing that one sometime in the next few days. Thanks for catching my mistake; I was being a bad blogger and multi-tasking! Link is now fixed!
Love this!! Thanks for all these great ideas! I love anything that I can make myself!
If you want to go a little more upscale with this gift, try a raw honey and organic brown sugar scrub…so good for your skin! I use this everyday in the shower. I just combine some raw honey with the brown sugar and that’s it! Less ingrediants.
Ooh, love that idea!
@Crystal,
How much honey & how much brown sugar do you use? Thanks for sharing this great idea!
@Theresa, You know, I usually keep the honey and sugar separate, because I am lazy. I take about a teaspoon of each in my hand and mix. I use the course brown sugar. It tastes so good when it gets in your mouth in the shower. mmmm.
@Crystal, I like this idea! Thanks for sharing!
Does anyone know a different Oil to use? I know that Most places wont use vegetable type oils because they are supposed to clog pores.. Is that just a Rumor? I know of Vitamin E but I assume that is expensive to buy in bulk..any suggestions?
@Emily, That’s the whole reason I use honey in mine. It moisturizes, has the antibacterial properties and rinses off very easy, leaving skin smooth and not oily.
a tablespoon each of sugar and olive oil for each shower works perfectly! My son has really bad eczema and this is one of the rare things that helps him. Olive oil is absolutely fabulous as a moisturizer and does not leave the skin feeling oily at all after use!
I think olive oil is great or mineral oil would be good too!
This is it! It’s the gift I’ve been looking for to give to those who work for me (14 out of 17 are women). Thanks SOOOO much for posting this link.
I love this idea but have never used essential oils. Does anyone have any recommendations? Do you have to blend them or can you buy just one oil? Help…I really want to do this for several gifts and the cheaper the better.
Will these clog my drains? I know you’re not supposed to put oil down your drains so I’m just wondering. Is this too little an amount to matter?
I have been searching for an oil-free sugar scrub on the web, but no luck. I am fine with including the essential oil for fragrance, but I mean no oil otherwise. Just too messy for me, and it leaves the shower slippery, etc. I saw the post about combining honey and sugar, but is there an oil-free (again, not counting the essential oil) sugar scrub recipe out there that can be combined and saved in a jar?
Thanks for the great idea! I had just received this as a gift and thought it would be fun to try it. I substituted the vegetable oil (too greasy) for 100% extra virgin olive oil and added peppermint essesial oil, tea tree oil, and vitamin E oil. I placed peppermint candies at the bottom of jars at the dollar tree and tied it with a cute peppermint colored ribbon.