Sugar Body Scrub

Dear Familia,

I don't think I mentioned this before, but I follow Gwenyth Paltrow's blog Goop. Although really it's less of a blog and more like a newsletter. Anyway, Goop introduced me to the Clean cleanse and also a wonderful Brooklyn based company called Sprout. The owner sells completely all natural skin care products. I have yet to be able to purchase any of them (long story involving me waiting till I went to NYC and then never actually making it up there), but there was a recipe for a sugar scrub included in the Goop article that I was excited to try.

I bought the ingredients at the Whole Foods trip I mentioned before.

• 1 cup organic demerara sugar (or any other coarse sugar will work)
• 1-2 tsp organic unrefined coconut oil
• 2 tsp organic shredded coconut

Then I followed the recipe directions: Mix shredded coconut and sugar in a small bowl, stir until blended. Heat coconut oil in a small pot just until melted. Pour coconut oil over sugar and shredded coconut, you'll notice it liquefies some of the sugar. With a fork or spoon, stir oil into the sugar mixture. It will start to spread. Continue until the sugar is all one consistency.

And you already know what container I used to store the scrub... ;)

I tried it out the other day on my face while I took a shower. It felt nice, but I think it would be a better bath body scrub. It was not liquid-y enough to use easily for my face.

Love,

Jem