How to make Best at home DIY Body Scrubs
DIY Skincare.
These easy DIY rose body scrub recipes are a treat for your skin. They’re wonderfully fragrant, and have a plethora of benefits for natural skin care. In this easy tutorial, learn how to make floral rose sugar body scrubs with essential oils, rose petals, or rosewater, and reveal softer, smoother skin in minutes.
DIY Rose body scrub.
Sometimes, no matter what the season is, dry skin happens, and homemade body scrubs are a quick and easy fix.
These pretty pink colored rose body scrubs can help exfoliate the dry, flaky skin caused by weather or the other common factors that can contribute to dry skin.
After all, even the best moisturizing lotion won’t work without using a good body scrub first.
As an added bonus, these floral body scrubs are crafted with natural ingredients and can easily be altered to be vegan-friendly.
I’ve included a few ways to infuse your DIY body scrub with a floral rose fragrance, including rose essential oils, rose petals, and rosewater.
If you’re new to DIY beauty, you will find these floral body scrub recipes very simple to make. Read on to learn how to make rose geranium, rose vanilla, citrus rose or rose water body scrub for homemade skincare.
Exfoliating and Smoothing:
Sugar is a natural exfoliator that leaves dry skin softer, smoother and more supple.
Moisturizing:
Nourishing and emollient carrier oils in this rose body polish recipe help to soften dry skin.
Naturally scented:
This body scrub is naturally scented with essential oils or rosewater. Essential oils are generally less toxic than artificial fragrances or fragrance oils.
Money-Saving:
Easy homemade beauty hacks like DIY body scrubs can save you money over their store-bought counterparts. After all, body scrubs usually consist of all the same inexpensive ingredients you usually have at home.
Eco-friendly:
With homemade body scrubs, you can reuse your packaging, which makes this a beauty product with almost zero waste.
Aromatherapeutic:
The aroma of rose essential oil has a calming effect on the central nervous system, which can help you boost your mood while you exfoliate your skin.
DIY rose petal body scrub.
Recipe
Finely ground sugar (or brown sugar)
Liquid coconut oil (or liquid oil of choice)
Honey (omit if vegan)
Rose essential oil blend or rosewater for fragrance
Body scrub colorant for a rosy pink
Vitamin E (optional)
Rose petals for decoration (optional)
Sugar
It should come as no surprise that sugar is the main ingredient of a homemade sugar body scrub. Sugar is one of the best inexpensive natural exfoliators, and you likely already have it on hand.
You will want to choose finely ground sugar for your rose body polish base. Finely ground sugar (or caster sugar) is perfect for body scrub recipes as it’s far more gentle on delicate skin compared to regular sugar, which has larger, coarser granules.
But rather than buying caster sugar, you can simply grind your sugar for a finer texture. For a quick beauty hack, you can use a coffee or spice grinder in order to remove any large granules.
While exfoliating has its benefits, you also don’t want to over-exfoliate your skin or use harsh exfoliants.
Exfoliating too frequently can cause skin micro-tears, especially if you use products with large particles such as coarse salt or sugar. And you definitely don’t want to use a coarse and bitter salt scrub on your body.
Since these body scrubs contain fine sugar granules, they exfoliate more gently.
Tip: you can also use brown sugar, which is very soft, high in moisture, and gentle on the skin. I used brown sugar in the vanilla rose body scrub for its sweet, molasses-like scent which compliments the vanilla oleoresin.
Fractionated coconut oil
These rose body scrubs are moistened with fractionated (liquid) coconut oil.
Using oil in a body scrub recipe helps nourish dry skin, while also acting as a buffer to keep the sugar from exfoliating too harshly.
Fractionated coconut oil is ideal in a homemade body polish because it’s liquid at room temperature. If you use regular coconut oil in your scrub, it will solidify even after you melt it.
This could make your scrub too firm or crumbly, so regular coconut oil is not the best choice for use in a body scrub. You want it to feel more moist so it’s easily spread on your skin.
Homemade rose sugar body scrub with rose petals and coconut oil.
DIY body scrub with coconut oil, sugar, and rose petals.
Coconut oil also has a number of skin benefits. It’s occlusive, which means it can help to lock moisture into your skin. It also has antibacterial and anti-fungal properties which favor a healthier skin microflora.
But if you don’t want to use coconut oil, you can also use MCT oil or another liquid carrier oil of your choice.
Some people like to use olive oil in their sugar scrubs, but I find that olive oil’s scent competes with this rose body polish’s floral fragrance. Therefore, I prefer to use less strongly scented carrier oil, but this is a matter of preference.
Another reason I prefer fractionated coconut oil or MCT oil in scrubs is because these oils are mostly saturated fatty acids, and therefore oxidize more slowly. So crafting your rose scrub with saturated oils can prevent it from going rancid quickly and thus prolong its shelf-life.
Honey
Honey is an optional ingredient, but it serves a useful purpose in these rose body scrubs.
Not only is honey chock full of antioxidants, but it’s also a humectant, so it helps to draw moisture into your skin. And its stickiness helps your body scrub stick together, giving it a paste-like texture so it doesn’t fall off your skin.
Overall, it’s an excellent natural treatment for dry skin and can be very soothing as well. This is why it’s also a key ingredient in my rose petal body mask.
If you’re vegan or prefer not to use honey, you can choose a vegan sweetener such as agave nectar for a similar effect.
Vitamin E
Vitamin E has potent antioxidant properties that help nourish your skin and prolong the shelf-life of your body scrub’s carrier oil.
A few drops of high-quality vitamin E oil goes a long way. But it’s not necessary for your body scrub to work, so you can skip it if desired.
Rose petals
If desired, you can also add real dried rose petals to your homemade body scrub.
Dried rose petals will not add a particularly strong fragrance, but they do add a beautiful floral decoration. This is especially nice if you’ll be giving floral body scrubs as gifts.
You can also grind rose petals and use them in lieu of your colorant, because ground rose petals can also add a subtle tint to your scrub. It’s possible the petals may also add some extra exfoliating properties.
Rose petal body scrub DIY.
Please note that you should only use dried rose petals for your body scrub. Please don’t use fresh rose petals, as they are moist and will introduce water into the scrub. Any time you mix oil and water, you allow bacteria to grow.
To make a DIY rose petal body scrub, simply mix in a sprinkling of real dried rose petals or a spoonful of rose petal powder into your sugar before adding the rest of your body scrub ingredients.
Rose petals have many natural skincare benefits for your skin. They’re high in antioxidants and can even help stain your skin with a rosy pink tint. To learn more about how rose petals can benefit your skin, see my rose body mask recipe.
Rose body polish fragrance
Rose is a popular fragrance in beauty and skincare products. The aroma of roses can invoke feelings of romance and well-being, and the scent is the perfect compliment to a gently exfoliating body scrub.
There are a few ways you can infuse your floral body scrub with a rosy scent, including rosewater and essential oils.
I used essential oils to fragrance these body scrubs, and I’ve included three rose essential oil blends to choose from below.
Rose body polish varieties: rose petal and citrus rose.
Rose body polish in 2 varieties: rose geranium and vanilla rose.
You may want to use rosewater in your scrub, but making a DIY body scrub with rosewater is trickier than using essential oils. It also requires you to take certain precautions to prevent bacteria from growing.
Yet another option for adding a fragrance to your scrubs is to use rose-infused oil or fragrant Bulgarian rose wax, which I used in my DIY rose body balm recipe. However, rose wax needs to be melted before use.
In the interest of keeping this rose body scrub recipe very easy to make, I left rose wax out, but if you’d like to use it, I’ve included the instructions later in this article.
Essential oils for DIY rose body scrubs
Rose geranium essential oil
Rose essential oil seems like an obvious choice for a DIY rose body scrub. But while true rose oil smells super good, its price point is quite high. Therefore, to save money, I used rose geranium essential oil in lieu of real rose oil.
But despite their differing price points, rose oil and rose geranium oil share some noticeable similarities. Rose geranium oil has a remarkable rose-like fragrance. So similar, in fact, that it's even sometimes used to dilute real rose oil.
You can however use real rose essential oil in your body scrub if you have it in your collection. Or alternatively, a more affordable diluted rose otto.
Regardless of which essential oil you choose for your scrubs, you can also use it to make this DIY rose body balm, which is the perfect compliment to a rose body scrub. And don’t forget to use a skin treatment, such as my moisturizing and plumping rose petal body mask.
Vanilla oleoresin
Rose and vanilla is a classic combination, and it makes for a delicious sweet-smelling vanilla rose body scrub.
Vanilla oleoresin’s incredible sweetness makes it one of my favourite essential oils. Interestingly, vanilla also has aromatherapy benefits and can help promote feelings of calmness and well-being.
Rose vanilla body scrub with rose petals and vanilla beans.
If you don’t have vanilla oleoresin on hand, you can also substitute the oleoresin in the vanilla rose scrub recipe with a dash of vanilla extract.
However, keep in mind that mixing oil and water creates food for bacteria. So if you make a body scrub with vanilla extract, you should store it in the fridge to prevent bacteria from growing and use it up quickly.
Sweet orange essential oil
Pairing rose with sweet orange creates a fresh citrus rose body scrub. Its uplifting aroma is both zesty and sweet, and compliments the floral notes of the rose geranium.
Homemade body scrubs with essential oils of rose and sweet orange.
Unlike certain other citrus oils such as lemon and bergamot, sweet orange oil is typically not phototoxic. So it won’t sensitize your skin to the sun after use.
But it’s important to note that there are two kinds of sweet orange oil: steam-distilled and cold-pressed (or expressed). The steam-distilled variety has photosensitizing properties, while the cold-pressed variety doesn’t.
Interestingly, the opposite goes for lime, lemon and grapefruit essential oils – for these citrus oils, the cold-pressed varieties are phototoxic, while the steam-distilled oils aren’t.
If you are going in the sun after using this body scrub, these differences are important to remember.
Most bottled sweet orange oil is safe for use in this scrub, but it’s still important to check. Look on the bottle for cold-pressed or expressed as the extraction or distillation method.
Rose Body Scrub Recipes;
Rose body Scrub
2 tablespoons fine sugar
1 tablespoon fractionated coconut oil (or liquid carrier oil)
1/2 tablespoon honey
6 drops rose essential oil or rose geranium essential oil
Natural colorant such as pink mica or rose petal powder (optional)
Dried rose petals for decoration (optional)
A few drops vitamin E oil (optional)
Vanilla Rose Body Scrub
2 tablespoons fine sugar or brown sugar
1 tablespoon fractionated coconut oil (or liquid carrier oil)
1/2 tablespoon honey
3 drops rose geranium essential oil
3 drops vanilla oleoresin
Natural colorant such as pink mica or rose petal powder (optional)
Dried rose petals for decoration (optional)
A few drops vitamin E oil (optional)
Citrus Rose Body Scrub
2 tablespoons fine sugar or brown sugar
1 tablespoon fractionated coconut oil (or liquid carrier oil)
1/2 tablespoon honey
3 drops rose geranium essential oil
3 drops sweet orange essential oil
Natural colorant such as pink mica or rose petal powder (optional)
Dried rose petals for decoration (optional)
A few drops vitamin E oil (optional)
Supplies
Small bowl for mixing
Mixing spoon
Small glass jars or body balm tins for storage
Small grinder or knife for rose petals
How to make rose body scrub;
Add finely ground sugar or brown sugar to a small mixing bowl. Tip: if the sugar is coarse, use a spice or coffee grinder to grind it into a fine powder.
If making a rose petal lip scrub, add a spoonful of rose petal powder or a sprinkle of dried rose petals. Tip: grind or lightly chop the rose petals into smaller pieces so you don’t have large petals in the body polish.
Next, pour in the fractionated coconut oil (or liquid carrier oil of your choice) and honey. Mix well to incorporate and thoroughly coat the sugar. The body scrub should begin to stick together nicely.
Add rose essential oil blend and mix well once again.
If adding vitamin E and a colorant, add it now and mix thoroughly to incorporate the color evenly.
Transfer the body scrub mixture to small glass containers or body balm tins and seal well.
Rosewater Body Scrub Recipe
2 tablespoons fine sugar
1 tablespoon fractionated coconut oil (or liquid carrier oil)
1 teaspoon rosewater
Natural colorant such as pink mica or rose petal powder (optional)
Dried rose petals for decoration (optional)
A few drops vitamin E oil (optional)
How to make rosewater body scrub
Add your finely ground sugar and rose petals to a small mixing bowl.
Pour in fractionated coconut oil (or liquid carrier oil of your choice). Mix well to thoroughly coat your sugar. This will help ensure the rosewater does not dissolve the scrub.
Add rosewater and mix well once again.
If adding vitamin E and a colorant, add it now and mix thoroughly to incorporate the color evenly.
Transfer the rosewater bodyscrub mixture to small glass containers or body balm tins and seal well. Store in the refrigerator.
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