Speaking of cranberries, here are five ways to incorporate this miracle fruit into your skincare regimen.
I've been making my own body scrubs for years, using brown sugar/sea salt/coffee grounds combined with various oils (apricot kernel oil is amazing), and now that the economy is in the toilet, I think I'm going to resume the habit, because it's seriously the easiest thing in the world to do and you can't beat the softness of post-scrub skin. You don't even need a recipe. Just throw together some exfoliant into a jar, pour enough oil (baby oil is actually not recommended, because it doesn't soak in, and mineral oil will give you bacne, but everything else is pretty much fair game, even olive or canola oil) until it becomes the right consistency of salty sludge, then add in some fragrance (or not) and maybe a bit of this or that and voila, beauty product for pennies on the pound. It's the perfect thing to do if you've always wished you could get, say, Aveda's Blue Oil as a sugar scrub. It would be a pretty snazzy and super cheap holiday gift, especially if you packaged up your scrub in a cute jar, like the Ball Elite Jars. You can't get more Drugstore Cowgirl than doing it yourself, now can you?
Don't think you're crafty enough for this beauty project? Check out these excellent exfoliators,prepackaged and ready to scrub.
--Wendy
image via craft-therapy.blogspot.com
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