26 January, 2022
Gingerbread Sugar Scrub
Welcome back! Happy New Year!
Once again, I’d like to apologize for the hiatus. As ironic as it may seem, I, a food blogger, have been struggling with eating. As a result, my cooking has been somewhat irregular and generally catered to not making my stomach hate me — which, also ironically, this recipe absolutely would, so please don’t eat it. From here on, I’m hoping to hop back on a more regular posting schedule, occasionally throwing in filler content about food gardening and foraging so you can keep up with my food-related adventures outside of the kitchen. I hope you enjoy the new program!
This week, we’ve got a luxurious little hand scrub that I whipped up for friends and family this holiday season. It smells just like gingerbread, and, if you don’t add the frankincense oil, is *technically* edible, though I really really wouldn’t recommend it. Just… don’t eat it. It smells great, but don’t. Also, Vitamin E oil is something I found in the vitamin section of the grocery store. It’s Vitamin E in some kind of carrier oil (sunflower, in my case, I think). If you can’t find a convenient bottle of the stuff, Vitamin E gel capsules are another option, if a mildly inconvenient one. You’d need to pop them like Gushers and squeeze the goo out from inside. Not ideal, but an option (and an ingredient that really helps the skin not look like sad, thin sandpaper in the winter).
To use it, rub it onto your dry hands and scrub it all around for a minute or two, really working the knuckles and dry parts of your hands. Rinse the sugar off with cold water, pat dry, and if you’d like, top with some lotion to really lock in the moisture. It’s good stuff (totally unbiasedly approved by the woman who made it, who also has horrifyingly chapped hands in the winter).
Ingredients
1 cup Sugar
3/4 cup Coconut oil (solid)
1 tbsp Molasses
2 tsp Ground ginger
1 tsp Ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp Ground cloves
4 drops Frankincense oil
1 tbsp Vitamin E oil
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Preparation is easy:
Throw all the ingredients in a food processor and blitz until combined. Scoop the scrub into a jar and seal it up tight. The high sugar content will prevent it from going bad for quite some time.
