Sugar body scrub with green tea
I’m not a big fan of green tea as a drink, but green tea infusion and powder in skin care works very well. By combining a coffee scrub with a tea scrub, you can achieve excellent results - skin detox, antibacterial, anti-cellulite effect. Sugar scrub with green tea is simple and effective, with many advantages compared to store-bought products.
Only 4 ingredients:
- 1.5 stack. Sahara
- 2 tsp green tea powder (ready store-bought, or just good tea ground in a coffee grinder.)
- 2 green tea bags
- 100 grams of coconut oil (200 grams 150 UAH, 400 rubles)
It is for recipes like these that you need to buy coconut oil by the kilogram at a time. Almost all the homemade lotions and scrubs described in this blog can be taken and eaten… Are there many commercial products that are ready to boast of this? No one. It’s a pity that coconut oil is not traditional for our kitchens, and margarine made from petroleum products sits firmly on its shelf in the refrigerator. But I’m sure the coconut time is still ahead.
Preparation:
- Melt the coconut oil in a steam bath.
- In a bowl, mix sugar, tea powder and tea bags.
- Add melted butter to a bowl, mix thoroughly.
Keeps in the refrigerator indefinitely, and in the bathroom for about a month. This is a very soft scrub, suitable for faces with dry and combination skin.
There is an opinion that coconut oil for the face is not suitable for all skin types, supposedly it is comedogenic - I completely disagree! I have a tendency to acne, I use any fat bases very carefully for care, so the best fats are Shea butter (Shea butter), Jojoba and Coconut oil.
If the problem of acne and inflamed elements is acute, replace sugar with salt. Sugar feeds pathogenic flora, in particular different strains of staphylococcus, which live in inflamed sebaceous glands and clogged pores. In this case, it would be a good idea to enrich the scrub with essential oil of oregano, thyme or rosemary. It is these herbs that contain carvacrol - the only known natural substance that destroys Staphylococcus aureus. You can find some of the most gorgeous masks for oily and problem skin here . If your skin is of normal type, then you should not replace sugar with salt.
