How to: Winter's Coming Lip Scrub.

I have always suffered with chapped lips in the winter. This year I decided to try and do something about it. I had seen a few sugar lip scrubs being advertised (like this one at Lush). So I made lip scrub!

Ingredients:

I wanted to find a way to make a sugar scrub with ingredients I already have in my store cupboard. I did some digging around online and came up with a list of things that I could use...

• Coconut oil 
• Chocolate and vanilla 
• Honey, olive oil and Vaseline

My first try recipe:

I mixed the following ingredients together with a fork:

• 3 teaspoon (tsp) white caster sugar
• 1 tsp coconut oil

This was a bit too dry and crumbly so I added the following:

• 1 tsp solid honey
• 1 tsp olive oil (But read to the end...)

How to use:

Rub a little on to your lips in a circular motion. Then lick it off! Follow up with a good rich moisturising cream. I use the hand and lip cream I made not too long ago...

What I learnt:

• Don't bother making this with brown sugar, it dissolves! Goodness knows what they do to make sugar white and non-dissolving...
• It would have been better if I had left out the olive oil. When I wanted to use my scrub the next day the olive oil had separated and was sitting on top of the rest of the mix. I just poured it off. Also the olivey taste doesn't go all that well with the coconut and honey.

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