I love making home made beauty treatments, always have done.
Even as a child I’d read all the herbal and natural remedies books on my parents’ bookshelves and make anything I could …. honey face masks, or chamomile tea hair rinses, or well, anything I heard about and could find the ingredients for really.
I’d had this rose essential oil on my Christmas list this year and was so pleased to receive it! I’ve recently discovered this brand and am really happy with the oils I’ve tried so far, they’re really good value too.
Realised yesterday that I hadn’t yet tried it, so decided to make a body scrub for my bath later that evening.
This is very simple, smells amazing, made my skin incredibly soft and moisturised and also left floating rose petals in the bath which was just lovely and luxurious.
Rose is nurturing, comforting and just right for when you need to be gentle and take care of yourse
You’ll need:
approx 3/4 - 1 cup white sugar
approx 1/3 - 1/2 cup coconut oil (mine was solid as it’s quite cold but you can use liquid of course)
a small handful of dried rose petals (mine are actually a ‘cooks’ ingredient’ from Waitrose, but you could dry your own or they’re easily available online)
10 drops rose essential oil
Mash it all together until it’s completely mixed in and the oil and sugar combined and then put into a clean jar …. and that’s it.
In the bath take a good handful and just enjoy that beautiful scent, the scrub of the sugar and the indulgent moisturising of the coconut oil and then just relax for a while in the rose petal water …
