How a Sugar Scrub Makes My Day

Come Fall, my skin shrivels up and itches seemingly non-stop, until I remember my annual regime: homemade sugar scrub + post-shower Trader Joe’s body butter or straight-up coconut oil.

My favorite sugar scrub recipe comes from Katie Wells of Wellness Mama. It’s fabulous and I’ve been using a version of it for years.

Every time I shower…(I almost started this sentence: Every day….but anyone who knows me knows I don’t shower every day! That’s laughable. Since I’ve already started to digress, I may as well go all in: I shower so infrequently that when I actually do shower, I predictably get a handful of compliments that day about how good my hair looks. So there’s the trick—shower less, much less—so that when you feel you’re in need of a compliment, all you have to do is shower to get one. Boom. You’re welcome.)

Back to it…so, every time I shower I throw several drops of eucalyptus essential oil on the shower walls, breathe deeply, wash, shampoo, rinse, condition, maybe shave, maybe, then sugar scrub all over, even gently on my face. These little tweaks almost trick me into thinking I’m at the spa, which is really nice.

I use lemon and lavender essential oils in my sugar scrub, to both wake me up and relax me—with three kids, I need a dose of both. You get it.