Peppermint yourself

For today, to finish off the week beautifully, another recipe!! Ah yes but wait, don't go!! No I'm not trying to make you fat, today's all about a recipe for your body :-)

I made this lushious body scrub for my mum for Christmas. I had to post about it because it really is the easiest thing to do. Once you get hold of the necessary ingredients, all that's required is a little weighing and some mixing. End of. So there's no excuse not to make this.

I used some I had leftover and it was lovely. Knowing exactly what was in it was a definite mood lifter. And skin smoother of course!

Ingredients:

• 300g coarse sea salt (from the supermarket! You can go for the fancy organic type or standard, both work!)
• 20g green seaweed flakes (struggled to find this; best I could find was Clearspring green nori sprinkle)
• 100g granulated sugar (I'm sure other types of sugar would work just as well)
• 15 drops of peppermint essential oil (I got mine from Neal's Yard Remedies)

Method:

• Mix the sea salt with the sugar.
• Add the seaweed and mix well.
• Finally add the essential oil and mix lightly.
• Fill a kilner jar and tie some garden twine and a shell around it!

To use: take a handful and massage into wet skin.

Enjoy!

[original recipe taken from UK Handmade online magazine, summer issue 2010 pages 40-41. Original recipe called for 50g of seaweed, I think 20g is plenty]