This Chocolate Mint Sugar Scrub recipe is made with brown sugar and coconut oil. This mason jar gift is a delicious way to relax without the extra calories!
What do you do to relax after a long, stressful week? Do you ever turn to chocolate for a little comfort? Do I ever have a recipe for you…today I’m excited to share this recipe for Chocolate Mint Sugar Scrub! It is a delicious way to relax and unwind and you don’t even have to worry about the extra calories!
This Root Beer Float Sugar Scrub smells great and looks adorable in the mini mason jar mugs! It can be used as a lip scrub, body scrub and foot scrub.
How are your feet looking after being in sandals and flip flops all summer? Mine look like they could use some attention. You can use some of your kitchen ingredients to make a sugar scrub to help soften your skin. To make things even more fun, I made a Root Beer Float Sugar Scrub topped with vanilla sugar scrub on top. I found these adorable mini mason jar mugs at the craft store and they are perfect storing the sugar scrub.
This Bomb Pop Sugar Scrub recipe is perfect for summer, gifts and spa parties. The coconut oil, sweet almond oil and sugar softens and moisturizes skin.
Last summer, I shared a recipe for a Snow Cone Sugar Scrub and has remained popular throughout the past year. This summer, I am switching things up a bit and sharing a recipe for Bomb Pop Sugar Scrub.
It is another sugar scrub inspired by a classic summer treat and is made mainly with kitchen ingredients. Although this sugar scrub could be assembled in mason jars, like other sugar scrub recipes I’ve shared, I used test tubes instead, to make these scrubs look more like Bomb Pops!
One of my friend’s teen daughters is really good at giving pedicures. Last weekend while hanging out at their house, she offered to do our feet. Of course, that isn’t something we weren’t going to pass up on! One of the things she used on our feet was a homemade sugar scrub and it felt lovely. And it motivated me to make new sugar scrub recipe. This Strawberry Sugar Scrub is perfect for putting into mason jars and giving as gifts!
Snow Cone Sugar Scrub made with coconut oil and sugar is for perfect for summer! This sugar scrub recipe smells like a snow cone and will help keep your skin soft and smooth.
Raise your hand if you have fond memories of eating snow cones as a kid…or maybe you still love eating them. My husband used to have a guy that would ride a bike with a cart through his neighborhood, selling snow cones.
We didn’t have a “snow cone guy” but we would get snow cones from concession stands and street vendors. I thought it would be fun to make a snow cone sugar scrub for summer. It smells delicious and makes your skin so soft!
Use coconut oil to make this Grapefruit Sugar Scrub Recipe that will soften and moisturize skin!
The calendar says that it is officially spring, but I’m having a hard time believing it with the flurries coming down. The good news is that when I look at the extended forecast, they are teasing us with warmer weather on the way! So, this is the perfect time to get our skin ready for the summer. Coconut oil is a wonderful moisturizer and I love using it to make sugar scrubs. After using the sugar scrub, it doesn’t even feel like you need to follow up with a moisturizer.
Come on over to the eHow Craft Blog to find my recipe for Grapefruit Sugar Scrub and to download the free printable labels.
This pampering gift in a jar is an orange creamsicle sugar scrub recipe that uses coconut oil and smells good enough to eat.
Who doesn’t need a little pampering in their life? Mix up a big batch of this orange creamsicle sugar scrub, put it into small mason jars and give this gift in a jar to the women in your life. The smell reminds me of summer and the coconut oil helps keep your skin soft and smooth!
Maple brown sugar scrub is my fourth recipe for spa week and it smells like a sweet treat. For this scrub, instead of using sugar and soap, I used sugar and oil. It can be used as a body scrub but I’ve heard that it can make the shower slippery so be careful! I put it into little containers for the guests at my spa party but it could be given as a Christmas gift as well.
I started out following Martha Stewart’s Body Scrub recipe that calls for 2 parts sugar to 1 part oil but it didn’t feel like the right consistency so I added more sugar. I used 1 1/2 cups of brown sugar, 1/2 cup of olive oil and 1/2 teaspoon maple extract. The amounts don’t really matter so start out with less and add more of whichever ingredient you want. The small containers are from the dollar store. I spray painted the lids silver to match the party.
There have been a lot of questions about the exact containers I used so I purchased another package for this photo. I should’ve taken a picture before I painted the original ones but I didn’t even think it of. I found these containers at the Family Dollar in one of the food aisles as a hanging extra. You know the little things that are hanging between the items on the shelves? Each container holds 2.4 oz and they cost $1.00 for the 8 pack.
Put the sugar, oil and extract into a bowl.
Combine all of the ingredients and add more if desired.
About 2 tablespoons fit into each of these containers. The entire mixture could be put into one large container but I’m not sure what the shelf life is. To help it last longer, store the scrub in the refrigerator.
I printed out labels and glued them to the containers. You can download the free printable maple brown sugar scrub labels HERE.
Alrighty, are you ready for spa week recipe two? This recipe is for a simple, DIY Sugar Hand Scrub. This hand scrub idea comes from Jill’s Gardner’s Hand Scrub at One Good Thing by Jillee. It only includes two ingredients: sugar and liquid soap! This hand scrub will not only make your hands feel soft and smooth, it can help remove grime from your hands! This would also make a great Christmas gift!
I used 4 ounce jelly jars, granulated sugar and Dial body wash. I chose this body wash because it is blue as well as antibacterial but any body wash or dish soap can be used.
Place 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar in the jar.
Top with about 2 tablespoons of liquid soap.
Slowly mix the sugar and soap together.
The result is a grainy, shimmery mixture.
Attach “hand scrub” labels with craft glue. You can download the free hand scrub printable HERE.
Attach directions using craft glue. You can download the free hand scrub directions printable HERE.
I am not sure how long this will last because this is my first time making it but since the soap I used it antibacterial I think it should last fairly well!
Although I was not compensated for this post, I purchased the supplies for a sponsored post that I am doing with Collective Bias™ and the recipe will be part of my sponsored Pampering Spa Party.
This Unicorn Spa Jar is for the girly girls is your life who love all things sparkly and colorful. They can use the fun gift in a jar to have a spa day. These mason jars would be perfect for a girls birthday party! I was planning to share this jar last week with the rest of the mason jar gifts but I ended up getting sick and couldn’t share. But the Unicorn Spa Jar was so cute that I had to share it this week instead.
A Golden Pampering Mason Jar Gift has golden spa items. Post includes recipes for shimmering brown sugar scrub, gold dust foot soak and sparkling bath bombs. This gift in a jar is perfect for so many occasions!
I have a long time tradition of sharing mason jar gifts and they have become extremely popular as a DIY Christmas gift. I shared the first gift in a jar during October 2011 and I’ve been sharing a few every year since then. So, this week I am taking a break from sharing recipes and will be showing you more mason jar gifts that you can make for the holidays.
The first gift in a jar is the Golden Pampering Mason Jar Gift. It is can be given for any occasion or holiday from a bridal shower to a birthday party and Mother’s Day to Christmas. And you might want to make additional spa items to keep on hand for yourself when you need a day of relaxation.
Before I get started on today’s blog post, I want to talk to you about gifts in a jar. If you are a long time reader of The Gunny Sack, you know that I am a huge fan of mason jar gifts. I shared my very first gift in a jar post called Everything In A Jar way back in October of 2011!! Since that time I’ve shared numerous mason jar gift ideas and I’ve seen countless other bloggers run with the idea, sharing their own versions. Nowadays, I mainly share recipes, as you know, but I have so many mason jars ideas in me and I really want to keep sharing them on my blog. Since I still get a ton of visitor to my older mason jar blog posts, so I know that readers are still interested these fun homemade gifts as well. All the “experts” say that you are supposed to choose a very specific niche for your blog and stick to it, but I’ve decided not to listen to the experts, this time, follow my passion and share a few mason jar gifts while continuing to share delicious recipes. I hope that you find these gifts in a jar as enjoyable as I do!
This gift in a jar is perfect for the chocolate mint lovers in your life. It is a gift that you can give to the special women in your life from girlfriends and sisters to mom’s and teachers. They would be perfect for a spa party or party favors at a bridal shower.
Try this Chocolate Mint Lip Balm recipe for a homemade gift or have older girls make it at a birthday party! The homemade lip balm tastes delicious!
I admit it, I am crazy for lip balm. If I don’t have it, I kind of start to panic. Making your own lip balm is really fun and super easy. The best part is that you can make it any flavor you want. I am working on a Chocolate Mint Mason Jar so today recipe is for Chocolate Mint Lip Balm. Enjoy!
With Valentine’s Day less than two weeks away, I had to share a Valentine’s Day Mason Jar! This gift in a jar is full of pampering spa items and sweet treats. You can change up the items in the mason jar so that you can give one to your mom, another for your kid’s teachers and another version for your girlfriends. And guys, this is a great gift for you to give your wife or your girlfriend!
There’s nothing quite like relaxing in warm water. I am really excited to share this recipe for how to make bath bombs since homemade bath bombs are a great addition to a nice soak in the tub! This isn’t the first bath bombs recipe I’ve tried. When I put together my Spa In A Jar, I added some DIY bath bombs, but since that recipe didn’t work right, I never shared it. I’ve always wanted to try again and I am so glad I did. These adorable heart shaped bath bombs with silver stars turned out fantastic!
I’m so excited to share my latest mason jar gift with you. Fall is my favorite season! I love the colorful leaves, the crisp fall air, crunchy apples and cheerful pumpkins. My love of fall might also have something to do with having a fall birthday. Last year I made a Peppermint Pampering gift in a jar and that was a big hit, so I decided to make a Pumpkin Pamering jar for autumn. It is a large mason jar filled with delicious scented pumpkin body care products, pumpkin treats and a pumpkin candle.
Snow Cone Truffles are an awesome summer party recipe. These bite sized snow cones are fun to make and fun to eat! The mini cones are easy to make using freezer paper.
I’ve got snow cones on the mind! It must be the hot, humid weather! Last week I shared snow cone sugar scrub and now I’ve Snow Cone Truffles to share with you.
Snow Cone Truffles are by melted together frosting and white chocolate chips The truffle mixture is piped into mini snow cones and sprinkles make the tops shimmer like shaved ice.
Looking for homemade gift ideas? I will show you how to make Pink Grapefruit Lip Balm
using coconut oil, beeswax, sweet almond oil and essential oil.
I’ve wanted to try making lip balm for so long now. It looked easy enough to make but I never got around to making it. My sister-in-law is getting married in May and I wanted to give her some lip balm to go along with a homemade Scented Lotion Bar and Grapefruit Sugar Scrub. So, I made Pink Grapefruit Lip Balm and gave her all three items as part of her bridal shower gift.
Happy New Year! I’ve gathered together the top 20 posts of the year. These are your favorites according to the amount of traffic they received and the the number of times they were pinned. Thank you so very much for all of your support. 2013 was a fantastic year and I am looking forward to an even better 2014.
I can’t believe that December is already here! I know I was that every month but wow, where does the time go? I hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, filled with special times with your family and friends. I am so excited to tell you about today’s giveaway. It is a collective effort giveaway, each blogger on this list is bringing you something special. Eighteen amazing ladies put together a basket of things they would like to get for Christmas and they are giving it away to make your holiday a little happier!
Visit EACH one of the eighteen bloggers to see what is in their basket. Every blogger is hosting a giveaway on their site, for their basket. Enter each giveaway for a chance to win that basket. Who knows, maybe you will win more than one!!
Looking for gift ideas for men? After 2 years of gifts in a jar, it’s finally time for a men’s mason jar gift called Cleans Up Well. It is filled with men’s toiletries.
Yesterday I shared five gifts in a jar and one of them is called Cleans Up Well. I decided to make this mason jar gift for men after making so many gifts in a jar for women and after hearing that some of you wanted me to make one. This jar needed a post in addition to the yesterday’s Gifts In A Jar Homemade Gifts Ideas post because I want to share the recipes for the men’s moisturizer and scrub so that you can make it yourself!
Gifts in a Jar are a fun way give presents. These homemade gift ideas are perfect for the holidays.
I’ve been making gifts in a jar for two years now. It all started with my Everything In A Jar blog post where I filled mason jars with items around a certain theme. There was Energy In A Jar, Pampering In A Jar and Refreshment In A Jar. Since that time, I’ve shared mason jar gifts for different seasons and occasions. This holiday season, I’ve teamed up with Ball®, as part of 25 Days of Making & Giving, to share even more gift in a jar ideas! These homemade gifts can be given for any occasion to almost anyone in your life but are especially fun to make at Christmas.
Gifts in a jar are perfect for giving homemade Christmas gifts. This Peppermint Pampering Jar is filled with items like body butter, foot soak and sugar scrub.
The Holiday Mason Jar Extravaganza has finally arrived! Today is day one with half of the bloggers sharing their crafts. The second half of the bloggers will share tomorrow and on Friday you can share your holiday mason jars in our link party! I’ve shared many gifts in a jar for various holidays and seasons.
Giving homemade Christmas gifts is so affordable! This Christmas I will be giving out gifts in a jar with a Peppermint Pampering theme. It is filled with homemade peppermint spa products and peppermint treats.
If you want to make your own spa products, the recipes are below. If not, you can buy small sized bottles of similar spa products to put in the jars. Or buy large bottles and divide it into small containers.
This handmade gift idea is a Pedicure In A Jar. I gave these cute mason jar gifts to my girlfriends this summer.
Earlier this summer I went on an annual girlfriends getaway weekend. I have been friends with the ladies I went with for most of our lives and my friends are truly a gift from God. Life gets so busy and there were a few years where we didn’t see much of each other. Finally, we decided to plan a yearly getaway for just us girls so that we would be sure to make time to stay connected. We’ve been going on these getaways for 13 years now. So far, we haven’t gone anywhere that involves an airplane but we keep promising that will happen one of these days. I wanted to give my friends a small gift just for fun and decided to make a Pedicure In A Jar.
This homemade citrus foot soak recipe is a relaxing way to pamper yourself! It is fun to give as a gift in a jar or can be made in a large batch for a spa party.
This homemade citrus foot soak was one of the gifts in a jar that I gave to my mom for Mother’s Day. It goes along with the Orange Creamsicle Sugar Scrub. I also gave Coconut Body Butter along with it because I had already made it.
If I were planning to make all three of these for a spa party or as a gift in a jar set, I would choose an orange scent for the lotion such as Capri Seaside Citrus from Bath and Body Works.
I am planning to use all three of these homemade spa products on my feet to to try to get them looking good for sandals. I know in some parts of the country, you’ve been wearing sandals for months but I just took mine out this week!
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Thanks so my sister-in-law and her planning ahead, we already have a Mother’s Day gift for my mother-in-law. But I didn’t have one for my mom yet, so I was delighted to have the opportunity to go shopping at Sears for her gift. Do you remember how I went shopping at Sears for holiday clothes for myself right before Christmas? Well, this time instead of going shopping for myself, I went for my mom. If you look at that post, you will notice that the clothes I tried on were mainly black, gray and blue. Guess where I get that from? My mom!
A gift in a jar will not only impress the recipient but it is also fun to make! I am taking the gift jar idea a bit further by combing it with Valentine’s Day ideas. Last week, I shared the Ice Skating Date In A Jar. This week I am showing how to make a Spa In A Jar so you can have a relaxing spa date at home! I have some home spa treatment recipes from previous posts so I included them in this mason jar.
A Spa In A Jar could be given for many occasions besides Valentine’s Day! My teen saw me making it and said she would love to have it when I was done. If you are making this for a date, be sure to make two jars so that you can each use all the treatments!
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All week I’ve been sharing spa party recipes leading up to my NIVEA Pampering Spa Party! Finally, I get to share the party with you! I spend all week making the spa party treatments so that I could spend the day of the party cleaning house, setting up for the party and making them food. I am delighted with how everything turned out and my nine guests left my house feeling pampered and relaxed!
The spa party treat table included the following:
{click on the links to see the recipes}
I purchased small bottles from Joann Fabrics and spray painted the lids silver. I attached tags with craft glue and filled them with NIVEA so that each guest can have their own mini bottle.
At the party, we soaked our feet in various basins, buckets and containers.
While we soaked, we chatted and let the stresses of the week go. Taking time to pamper ourselves is about more than just taking care of our skin. We all have stressful lives in different ways and pampering helps let some of the stress go and gives us the opportunity to relax and laugh with our friends!
Once we had enough of soaking, we used the maple brown sugar scrub to exfoliate our feet.
Then, we applied NIVEA Essentially Enriched lotion to our feet. This NIVEA lotion is for very dry, rough skin. It contains almond oil for healthier, well balanced skin, sea minerals for softer, smoother skin texture and Hydra 10 Technology for all day moisturization. After soaking, exfoliation and using NIVEA lotion, our feet felt so soft and smooth!!
We made a face scrub using a dollop of face wash and some baking soda. I got this idea from Lindsay at Delighted Momma. Some of the guests used a face mask before moisturizing their faces.
After using the hand scrub, we used NIVEA lotion to moisturize our hands. Everyone kept exclaiming about how soft and smooth their skin was!
I left the NIVEA Essentially Enriched lotion bottles out during the party so that the guests could refill their mini bottles.
No good party can be complete with delicious food! We had veggies with ranch dip, white chocolate dipped strawberries, pita chips with spinach dip, mini veggie pizzas (I will post this recipe soon) and brownie & cookie cupcakes (I will not post this recipe because it was somewhat of a failure).
My mom was unable to come to the party so I assembled a Pampering Spa Party Gift Bag for her. She is very excited to try it all out!
There were LOTS of people who couldn’t make it for various reasons and I have to say that they sure missed out! But since we had such a great time, we all agreed that we are going to do it again very soon. One of my friends suggested that we do again next week! Sounds like a great idea to me!
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Lavender Bath Salts are super easy to make! There’s nothing quite like relaxing in a tub of hot water after a long day.
Make a batch of these lavender bath salts to keep for yourself and a second batch to give away as Christmas gifts or party favors.
Chewy Christmas Oatmeal M & M Cookies are my husband’s favorite Christmas cookies! These oatmeal cookies with red and green M&Ms are a holiday tradition.
Every year I ask my husband and kids what goodies they want me to make for the holidays. I want to make sure I make at least one of their favorites. Brian always asks for Christmas Oatmeal M & M Cookies so I thought I’d share the recipe with all of you!
Chewy Chocolate Cookies with triple the chocolate have chocolate cookie dough studded with chocolate chips and are drizzled with even more chocolate!
Sometimes you just need chocolate to satisfy your chocolate cravings! These triple chocolate cookies are perfect for the holidays but easy enough to make for everyday occasions.
One of my favorite memories from childhood is those days when we would come home from school to find freshly baked cookies waiting for us. Make a batch and surprise your kids this week!
These pretty pink Peppermint Cookies with a candy cane crunch are topped with smooth peppermint buttercream frosting and sprinkled with crushed candy canes!
If there’s one flavor that brings Christmas to mind, it is peppermint! I have friends that love candy canes so much they stock up during the holidays so that they have enough to last the whole year.
These peppermint cookies are a delicious combination of chewy and crunchy, sweet and minty. Not only do they taste amazing, but they also look so pretty on a cookie platter!