Homemade Peppermint Lip Scrub!

From time to time I do enjoy a good crafty project. I've never got enough time for something really intricate, so I thought I'd do, quick lip scrub.

I decided to experiment with lip scrubs (due to an overabundance of sugar in my baking cupboard). My end result was a blue peppermint lip scrub, which looks pretty good from the picture above.

Peppermint Sugar Lip Scrub

1/2 tsp Olive Oil

1/4 tsp Peppermint Essence

50g Sugar

Blue gel colour
Small jar

In a small mixing bowl, pour the entirety of the sugar. Mix the oil and sugar together in the bowl until the mixture begin to bond together. To the mixture add the peppermint essence. If you want a strong, minty hit in the scrub then just increase the amount of essence used. Add to the bowl a SMALL amount of the blue colouring and mix well, otherwise you will end up with little balls of colour in the scrub (an the gel is strong so you WILL end up staining your skin). Mix thoroughly in to make sure that all the ingredients are incorporated evenly. Scoop the mixture into a small pot (there are plenty available on eBay and Amazon). I saved my old jar from my Lush Bubblegum lip scrub, and just throughtly washed and dried it. You could then decorate to your heart's desire.

It smells so pretty and minty fresh; I'm surprised it turned out as well as it did. Hope you enjoy it. I need to find some more good recipes for these. If anyone has suggestions/recipes please send them my way!

Louise x x

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