How to Use

How to Use

? take one heart and put it in the palm of your hand

? run water over it ? gently rub the heart into your

hands, breaking it up as you scrub ? rinse well ? pat dry ? apply a moisturizer like my soft &

silky whipped body butter (find the recipe here) or my rich & creamy dry hand lotion (find recipe here)

Hand Scrub Hearts Recipe

1. Use a spice grinder to grind 1 cup Epsom salt to a fine powder

2. add ground Epsom salt and 1 cup of baking soda to a glass mixing bowl

3. add 12 drops of lemon essential oil and 12 drops lavender essential oil

4. mix well and break up any clumps with the back of a spoon or pinch with your fingers

5. add 2-3 tablespoons of filtered or distilled water. Start with 2 tablespoons of water. Then add a little more water if needed. Consistency should be the consistency of stiff cookie dough.

6. mix well -- You want it to be the consistency of stiff cookie dough. If it's too crumbly, add a little more water. If not thick enough, add a little more baking soda.

7. divide the dough in half. put half of the dough on top of each heart silicone mold (click here for the silicone molds I used). Then press the dough into each heart cavity.

8. allow the hand scrub hearts to air dry in the molds until completely dry (this usually takes several hours to overnight). The mixture will likely expand as it dries. Here are a couple ways to handle this --> option #1: regularly check on the mixture as it dries and press the dough down as needed. This might need to be done 3-4 times in the first few hours of drying. option #2: cover the silicone molds with something and weigh it down so that the dough won't have a way to expand.

9. After the hand scrub hearts are completely dry, remove them from the silicone molds and put them in an airtight glass jar (this is the jar I used).

10. Add a label to the jar (click here for a free printable of my jar label)



What do you need to make these homemade exfoliating hand scrub hearts?

Epsom salt - sloughs away dead skin cells and then polishes your skin to a soft, smooth, very touchable finish. You can find Epsom salt at Walmart, Target, and drug stores. click here for where I buy my Epsom salt online.

baking soda - helps to soften skin and its gentle exfoliation leaves skin feeling silky soft. You can find baking soda in the baking aisle of the grocery store, Walmart, or Target. I buy my baking soda in large bags at Costco.

filtered or distilled water - You can find distilled water in the bottled water aisle at the grocery store, Walmart, or Target.

lemon essential oil - lightens and brightens skin as it nourishes. Lemon essential oil can help minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles as well as lighten age spots (aka sun spots). Plus it helps remove any grease, dirt, and grime from hands, so these hand scrub hearts can do double duty as a gardener's or mechanic's hand scrub.

lavender essential oil - soothing and relaxing scent gives me a momentary feel of being at a spa while I use this hand scrub. Plus lavender essential oil helps boost circulation and regeneration of healthy skin cells. And lavender oil's calming properties help soothe dry, reddened hands.

heart-shaped silicone molds - click here for the ones I used or you can use ice cube or candy-sized silicone molds in pretty much any other shape you want

airtight glass jar - click here for the glass jar I used or you can find similar glass jars at Walmart, Target, Michaels, Hobby Lobby, JoAnn's, etc

label for jar - click here for a free printable of my jar label

spice grinder - click here for the spice grinder I use. You'll use the spice grinder to grind the Epsom salt to a fine powder. I also use this spice grinder to turn regular oatmeal into colloidal oatmeal for my lavender, oatmeal & milk bath soak, and my DIY dry shampoo. And I also use the grinder to turn almonds and rice into powders for massage bars and gentle exfoliating facial scrubs.





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