With winter approaching, the sun-kissed summer glow will start to fade from the skin. Rather than watching it go, I decided to get the glow a different way – by creating radiantly soft, supple and moisturized skin. This Caramelized Copper Brown Sugar Scrub is the perfect way brighten up your skin for fall and winter months.
The scrub uses Copper Sparkle Mica and King’s Gold Mica to add a subtle shimmer. Brown and white sugar gently exfoliate the skin, and give the scrub a warm brown color. Burnt Sugar Fragrance Oil goes perfectly with the golden copper hues. The scrub is cleansing and non-greasy from the added potassium cocoate, and moisturizing from the avocado butter. Best of all, the scrub is easy to make!
What You’ll Need:
1.5 oz. Avocado Butter
3.5 oz. Potassium Cocoate
10 oz. Brown Sugar
10 oz. White Sugar
.8 oz. Burnt Sugar Fragrance Oil
7 mL Optiphen
2.5 tsp. Copper Sparkle Mica
2 tsp. King’s Gold Mica
Three Short 8 oz. Plastic Bail Jars
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ONE: In a large heat safe container, add 10 oz. brown sugar and 10 oz. white sugar. Make sure there is enough room in the bowl for the added oil, and for mixing.
TWO: In a small heat safe container, melt 1.5 oz. avocado butter on 5 second bursts. Stir between each burst.
THREE: Add 3.5 oz. of potassium cocoate to a separate heat safe container. Pour in the melted avocado butter and mix well. Potassium cocoate is a super foaming, all natural liquid soap base that helps to bind all the ingredients in this recipe together while cleansing the skin gently.
FOUR: Add 7 mL of Optiphen and .8 oz. of Burnt Sugar Fragrance Oil to the oil mixture. Mix to fully incorporate.
Note: Although this scrub doesn’t contain water, it will likely get water splashed in it during use. The extra water may cause bacteria and mold to grow. We added a preservative to be extra careful but the preservative is optional. You can read more in the Talk It Out Tuesday: Preservatives post.
FIVE: Pour the oil mixture into the sugar and mix well.
SIX: Add 2.5 tsp. of Copper Sparkle Mica and 2 tsp. King’s Gold Mica. Stir until the colorants are fully incorporated.
SEVEN: Pour the scrub equally into the three jars and allow them to fully cool. Enjoy by scrubbing those rough elbows and knees in the shower or use it as an all-over-body scrub to reveal fresh new skin. If you want to make this into a facial scrub, mix it with your favorite liquid soap or lotion in a 1:1 ratio, scrub well and, for extra moisture? Leave on your face for a full 10 minutes to let the oils do their job conditioning your skin.
What’s your favorite way to pamper your skin during the fall and winter months?
Caramelized Copper Brown Sugar Scrub
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz. Avocado Butter
- 3.5 oz. Potassium Cocoate
- 10 oz. Brown Sugar
- 10 oz. White Sugar
- .8 oz. Burnt Sugar Fragrance Oil
- 7 mL Optiphen
- 2.5 tsp. Copper Sparkle Mica
- 2 tsp. King’s Gold Mica
- Three Short 8 oz. Plastic Bail Jars
Instructions
- In a large heat safe container, add 10 oz. brown sugar and 10 oz. white sugar. Make sure there is enough room in the bowl for the added oil, and for mixing.
- In a small heat safe container, melt 1.5 oz. avocado butter on 5 second bursts. Stir between each burst.
- Add 3.5 oz. of potassium cocoate to a separate heat safe container. Pour in the melted avocado butter and mix well.
- Add 7 mL of Optiphen and .8 oz. of Burnt Sugar Fragrance Oil to the oil mixture. Mix to fully incorporate. Note: Although this scrub doesn’t contain water, it will likely get water splashed in it during use. The extra water may cause bacteria and mold to grow. We added a preservative to be extra careful. You can read more in the Talk It Out Tuesday: Preservatives post.
- Pour the oil mixture into the sugar and mix well.
- Add 2.5 tsp. of Copper Sparkle Mica and 2 tsp. King’s Gold Mica. Stir until the colorants are fully incorporated.
- Pour the scrub equally into the three jars and allow them to fully cool. Enjoy!
