Freshly ground coffee might be one of the most luxurious all-natural exfoliants known to man. Test it out with this DIY coffee-vanilla sugar scrub!
Makes about 20 ounces of scrub
½ cup coconut oil
1 cup fine to medium ground coffee (Preferred: FreshGround Roasting’s Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Medium Roast)
1 cup raw sugar*
1 tbsp olive oil
1 whole vanilla bean pod
1. Melt the coconut oil in the microwave (but make sure its not so hot that it melts the sugar when you mix them together).
2. Mix coconut oil with the coffee, sugar and olive oil.
3. Split the whole vanilla pod lengthwise and scrap out the beans into your sugar, coffee and oil mixture. Combine well.
4. Transfer scrub to jars for gifting. I split this batch into 2 smaller jars, cut the leftover vanilla bean pod in half and put a half into each gift jar for added fragrance.
*You can use regular granulated sugar, but I prefer raw sugar for scrubs because of its grainier texture.
