Martha Stewart eat your heart out

 

 

I have to say, lately I have been feeling a bit crafty and not just in the naughty way.  I have always enjoyed cooking and pottering around in the kitchen ever since I was very young, but now with more time on my hand, its all about experimentation. 

 

For example, every year in the lead up to Christmas, you see all these wonderful homemade gifts people make and give to their friends.  I have always looked at these and thought wow I have to try that, and then promptly ignored it until I had more time the next Christmas holiday; where I again think WOW... and you see how it goes.  But this year I thought was time to change all that.  Once I got past the initial concerns of whether people thought I was being cheap giving homemade gifts ( thanks Facebook Friends), I decided to choose something fairly simple and get to work. 

After seeing a post about a quick and easy Christmas body scrub I thought I'd give it a go.  It was very simple and took me less than 30 minutes to make four small jars of this beautiful scrub. 

 

See the how to below:-

 

You will need:

• 1 ½ – 2 cups white sugar
• ½ – ¾ cup coconut oil
• 5-10 drops of spearmint essential oil
• 3-5 drops red food colouring
• Small to medium screwtop jar
• Decorative ribbon and 1 candy cane for finishing touch

Instructions:

• Melt the coconut oil in a microwave safe bowl for 20 seconds or until it becomes liquefied.
• Add essential oil.
• Pour over sugar and mix until thoroughly combined.
• Divide scrub mix in half and add food colouring to one half stirring till mixed.
• Fill jar alternating between red and white scrub.

This will be enough mixture for 2 small jars.
You could use peppermint, orange or lime essential oil.

 

 

 Its simple easy and a lovely gift to share with your friends at Christmas time :)

 

 

P.S.  I have just reread my first paragraph and I have to be honest, if I didn't know I was talking about making Christmas goodies, I'd think this post was going in a whole other direction.