DIY Holiday Gift Idea: Homemade Lip Scrub Tutorial (page 3)

DIY Holiday Gift Idea: Homemade Lip Scrub Tutorial

Posted by ChickAdvisor Team | Wednesday December 14, 2011

Winter brings with it some of my favourite and wonderful things: the holidays, eggnog, limited edition beauty sets and special drinks at my local coffee shop. However, it also brings with it the bane of my existence: chapped lips. Yuck.

Here's where we introduce you to a fabulous remedy, a lip scrub! Used on its own and applied with a finger it refreshes and rids your lips of those unsightly flakes. For extra care, try applying with a toothbrush and afterwards, using some lip balm to soothe that gorgeous pucker of yours. While you can purchase a lip scrub, it's actually very easy to make your own and this makes a great gift for the holidays.

It's inexpensive, has only a few simple ingredients and you can customize it to suit your or a (very lucky!) BFF's!

What you'll need:

2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp castor oil
1/2 tsp cocoa
1/2 tsp coffee grounds
apx. 3 drops of peppermint oil extract

Step 1: Gimme some sugar!

For lip scrubs, granulated or castor sugar works best. If you want to try making a body scrub, you can use a heavier and thicker sugar like a brown sugar.

Step 2: Slick like oil!

This oil acts as the base for the scrub, it adds to the sugar to create that scrub texture you are used to. If you don't have castor oil on hand (which is regularly used in lip balms and glosses), olive oil or jojoba oil will work too.

Step 3: Mmmmm... minty!

This oil adds fragrance and some conditioning to your lip scrub. If peppermint isn't your thing then try lavender or almond oil.

Step 4: Mix it up!

Mix all the ingredients together. Hopefully this is the consistency you get!

Step 5: Chocaholic, much?!

We mixed the coffee grounds and cocoa in a separate cup beforehand then added this blend to the scrub. The cocoa and coffee gives a nice scent, colour and a bit of flavour to your scrub!

Step 6: Presentation is everything!

We found some small plastic containers at the dollar store for this step. If you have old glass jars, this would look super cute too!

The Final Look

We're absolutely in love with our adorable little trio of lip scrubs! We decided to create some custom labels as well for the set using card stock and markers. Because we're just 'oh-so-adorable' like that, we also decided to add an ingredients list for our lip scrubs too. Of course, we made sure to list the most important ingredient for a DIY gift: love.

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40 Comments

	on December 16, 2011 fairyinred 902 said: This sounds so cute and amazing, but I know I'll never do it. I'm just not very crafty. :(
	on December 15, 2011 daisyg 861 said: thank you for this recipe! I meet up with my friends at the coffee shop every week. This will be an awesome present for them!!
	on December 14, 2011 Lynn hall 3,007 said: This is a great idea, I agree with mamaluv, I need some help with the doodling too!
	on December 14, 2011 Ali de Bold STAFF said: Wow, I just learned so much about olive oil. Thanks, Gals! Then I guess buying the super fancy stuff and slowly savouring it over several months stored beside my hot oven is a no-no. There was one time I made Alex dump an entire bottle of olive oil because I thought it tasted 'off'. Then we had a whole conversation about can olive oil go bad. Glad to see I won that debate! But not.
	on December 14, 2011 petitechouxx 2,859 said: this is great! i need one
	on December 14, 2011 Riya 915 said: This is great... my lips always become bothersome during the winter months, so this is a wonderful DIY!!!
	on December 14, 2011 mamaluv STAFF said: @AlexJC - in that case, you both are invited to come and make them for me. Teachers' gifts due on Tuesday next week: chop chop!!
	on December 14, 2011 Aliza 14,011 said: Such a cute DIY!!!
	on December 14, 2011 AlexJC 50 said: @mamaluv that was done with A LOT of help from the lovely shiori!!!
	on December 14, 2011 Bren 26,031 said: These are great I LOVE seeing DIY homemade projects in your blogs my favorite part of Chickadvisor :) Olive oil with product in the fridge will solidify and go a funny texture unfortunately.Sweet almond oil is awesome and even adding honey or brown sugar is nice to..Love the idea of the coffee grounds!