Lavender Coconut Sugar Scrub Recipe

Scrubs are fun to use and easy to make. Whether you are trying to "green" your beauty routine or just looking for a simple scrub recipe, this scrub is definitely one you'll want to make again. It is not too hard or too oily making it easy to handle in the shower. In addition, it smells divine while exfoliating and moisturizing your skin. Here's what you'll need:

     

• 1/2 cup organic sugar
• 1 cup organic coconut oil
• 1/2 cup dried lavender
• 20 drops lavender oil
• mixing bowl and spoon
• measuring cups
• small containers

Mix all of the ingredients together. You may need to warm the coconut oil under warm water in the jar before measuring. Softening the oil just a bit makes it easier to both measure and stir.

When you are done mixing, spoon the scrub into your containers. It's beautiful, it smells delicious, and it makes your skin feel so soft.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

UPCYCLE: Glass Jars

We recycle everything we can recycle in my family, but where I live they have stopped taking glass. At first, we saved the glass assuming they would begin taking it again as soon as they found another facility, but unfortunately it has been years now and there is no glass recycling in sight. It kills me to throw away glass and if you look in our laundry room cupboards you will see that I don't.

Because our cabinets are limited on space, I can't keep hoarding glass unless I can find a way to reuse or upcycle it. This is an easy and attractive way that I've found to reuse some of the jars in our house.

You can use them as storage canisters for paperclips, buttons, leftovers, and so much more. They are BPA free and the chalkboard paint makes for easy labeling. They have even been mistaken for new store bought storage canisters.

 For this project you will need:

• chalk board spray paint
• newspaper
• glass jars, with labels removed
• chalk

Place the lids on the newspaper and spray evenly with the chalk board paint. Let them dry and voila!

 

 

 

The Pomegranate Mystery Has Been Solved

I love pomegranate, but for years I never bought it. For the life of me, I could not figure out how to open one without making a huge mess and staining my hands and anything near me in the process. Until now. I learned a trick from a friend that will put pomegranate on your grocery list, but not under your fingernails.  Below I will show you an easy step by step way to eat this delicious fruit:

 

1. When looking at your pomegranate you will notice that there are slight ridges running from top to bottom along the sides of the fruit. 



 

 

 

         2. Using a sharp knife, score the fruit along the ridge only cutting through the skin.

 

 

         3.  Repeat step 2 along another ridge. Your score marks should meet at the top and bottom
              of the fruit.

          4. Pry the fruit apart along the score marks. It should open pretty easily, so if it is giving you
              trouble you may just need to make the score marks a little deeper where your score marks
              meet at the top and bottom of the fruit.

 

 

Now you can eat your pomegranate mess free. Enjoy!