Handmade Chocolate Soap

Ingredients

12 oz of grated soap
5 oz of water
1/4 cup of instant cocoa powder
1/8 oz of essential chocolate fragrance oil.

Preparation

Over medium heat, combine grated soap and water until soap has melted.

Add cocoa powder and essential oil fragrance oil and stir until the mix is well blended.

Pour it into molds of your choice and let it harden.

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Homemade Natural Body Scrub

Body Scrub Recipe

2 Tablespoons Fine Ground Sea Salt or White Sugar or Cornmeal
4 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil (Olive Oil, Sunflower Oil, Safflower Oil, Castor Oil, Unhydrogenated Vegetable Shortening, Single Oil Or Blend Of Oils)

Instructions To Make Body Scrub
Blend small amounts of the oil into the scrub ingredient until you have a wet sand texture. When it is like wet sand, it is ready to use.

Instructions For Using The Body Scrub

If you just want a skin treatment to exfoliate, soften and oistuize the skin, lay newspaper in a big square beside the shower. Take a shower and do your usual routine. Step out of the shower and pat yourself dry. Pin hair out of the way. Use the scrub then take a shower. Rinse off the residue of the body scrub and pat dry. You can also apply the body scrub in the shower without leaving the shower area.

The benefits to leaving the shower to apply the body scrub are that you can make sure that the scrub does not go down the drain before you get a chance to use it, you can cover all the areas of your body that are reasonably within your reach and you can let the mixture sit on your skin for a few minutes for a longer conditioning period.

If you want to apply the body scrub dry, lay out the newspaper beside your shower. Use the body scrub and then take a shower. Make sure that you lay the newspaper in a large enough radius on the floor around you because the scrub formula will get flicked around pretty far as you use it.

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How To Use Salt Scrub

Use them no more than 3-4 times a week.

They should be used after you take a shower. This way, the skin is soft and moist, and dead skin cells are removed easier.

Depending on the body scrub recipes you are using, each ingredient will have a different effect in addition to the main one which is to exfoliate.

The salt scrubs will open the clogged pores and clean them thoroughly.

Lemon will act a disinfecting agent preventing and healing any inflammations.

The essential oils will penetrate the skin and soothe the deeper layers of it.

The best way to exfoliate is to use your fingertips and be gentle with the skin. Massage the body in circular motion, towards the heart to get the circulation going.

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