It’s nearing the end of July, and if you love running about barefoot in the summer as much as I do, your feet probably need a bit of TLC. Lucky for your feet (and mine), this awesome scrub is just the thing.
This scrub gets its scrubby goodness from a bunch of salt, in a couple different sizes. Coarse salt and a sort of medium grain salt (basically a a bit coarser than whatever you put in your salt shaker).
To that, I’ve added some essential oils—refreshing peppermint and eucalyptus. Both are lovely and fresh, and do a great job of clearing out your nose and leaving your feet all cool and tingly.
And that’s it, really. It’s a nice, easy scrub to pull together, and it’s nice and scrubby. What more could you want in a summer pedicure?
Tingly Eucalyptus Peppermint Foot Scrub
2 tbsp coarse grain salt (I used large grain Dead Sea Salt compliments of Saffire Blue—thanks!)
2 tbsp medium grain salt15 drops Eucalyptus Radiata essential oil (Eucalyptus Globulus is also a good choice)
20 drops peppermint essential oil (USA / Canada)Stir the salts together in a small bowl. Add the essential oils one at a time, stirring thoroughly between additions.
Store in a 125mL/half cup mason jar. I’d recommend using the scrub quite promptly as salt loves to absorb moisture and fuse to itself, becoming a brick rather than a scrub. How quickly will depend on how humid your environment is, but I’d say definitely less than a week would be a good idea.
Barefoot or sandals, my feet are abused during warm weather. This sounds lovely and cooling. Definitely trying this one! My feet thank you.
Enjoy! 🙂
Hi Marie, thank you for this lovely post. Got freshly scrubbed tingly feet now.
However I only had 1 of the original ingredients of yoyr short list. Peppermint oil.
So I improvised,
1 tbs of standard kitchen salt
1 tbs of basterdsuiker which is either castor or demerara sugar in english
5 drops Peppermint essential oil
3 drops Spearmint essential oil
It was great and I am sure I will do it again, love from Holland
Katja
It sounds like you did a great job of making do with what you have 🙂 Enjoy those tingly toes!
Hi! Just wanted to know how I could calculate the percentage of EOs in scrubs? Is there any recommended percentage?
Thank you!
This post contains a spreadsheet that will help you calculate percentages. EO percentages vary with the specific EOs, but in general, you’d want to stick to ~2% total.