Remember the health adage, "Don't put anything on your skin that you can't eat?"  I love making my own body scrubs whenever I can by using natural ingredients easily found in the kitchen. Here's one of my favorite body recipes:

Brown Sugar Body Scrub

• 1 cup organic brown sugar

• 1/2 cup massage oil ( I use  lavender, sweet orange, and Himalayan cedarwood blend)

• Pinch of cinnamon

Blend well together and store in a recycled jam jar or apothecary jar. Also try the Lemon Honey Scrub which you can whip up in a jiffy.

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