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Learn how to make Peppermint Sugar Scrub Recipe for the perfect handmade gift. Below is the step by step tutorial and video!

Do you love to give handmade gifts during the holidays?

This Sugar Scrub Recipe is amazing and perfect to give to friends, neighbors, coworkers, teachers, and really just about anybody!

This sugar scrub exfoliates and leaves your skin super soft and moisturized and it smells oh so yummy.

Handmade Beauty Products:

Beauty products are fun to make and are great gifts for birthdays, holidays, or for any special event. We have shared a couple along the way, like this Exfoliating Loofah Soap, this Homemade Hand Sanitizer, and this Handmade Lotion for Dry Skin.

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One batch of this recipe makes two cups of sugar scrub.

2 Cups white sugar
1/4 Cup Coconut Oil
10 Drops Peppermint Essential Oil
2 Drops Red Food Coloring

To package the scrub I used

Craft Tutorial Video:

How to Make Sugar Scrub:

Combine sugar and coconut oil in a medium-size bowl. I prefer to do the mixing with my hands.

Add the 10 drops of Peppermint Essential Oil, and mix again.

adding peppermint essential oil to sugar scrub

The scrub is done at this point, but I am going to create a fun red and white design in my jars to make it look like a peppermint candy. I will need red and white sugar scrub so pour half of the mixture into another bowl.

dividing the sugar scrub mixture into two bowls

Add two drops of red food coloring to one of the bowls and mix well.

adding red food coloring to a bowl of sugar scrub

Creating the Peppermint Twist in the Jar:

To get the cool peppermint look in the jars, create a paper mold that will act as the inner walls to keep the colors separate.

This template is made to fit inside the Ball Half Pint Jars. If you are using a different container you will need to adjust the measurements to fit inside your container.

Cut three strips of paper that measure 3 1/4-inch by 7/8-inch. At the middle point (1 5/8-inch) of all of the strips, you will need to cut halfway through the strip. Slide the strips together using the slit in the paper to slide over the slits in the other papers. Your finished piece should look like an asterisk.

paper strips to create the peppermint swirl

When the template is inside the jar the strips of paper should all be touching the sides of the jar in all directions.

With a spoon carefully start adding the sugar scrub to every other compartment. Make sure every section is full. Use the spoon to pack down the scrub as you are filling the jars.

adding the white sugar scrub into a section of the pint jar

When the white sections are full begin filling the empty sections with the red sugar scrub.

adding the red sugar scrub into a section of the pint jar

When all of the compartments are full then it is time to remove the paper. This is a little tricky but don’t worry, if you squish some of the colors together you can fix it with a spoon, pushing the colors back into their right spot.

Removing the Paper Strips:

I found it easiest to insert a pair of scissors into the very center and snip the papers at their intersection and then remove one piece of paper at a time.

When the papers have been removed push the colors back into place with a spoon.

Tie some twine around the lid and tuck a cocktail spoon into the twine and you are done. So cute!

You can even see the peppermint pattern on the bottom of the jar.

the peppermint twist in the jar of sugar scrub

My girls and I actually made 24 of these jars to give away as gifts. It took a couple of hours, but we had a lot of fun doing it.

The question we have been asked the most is “How did you get that pattern in the jar?”

Doing that pattern takes a little bit of extra time but it definitely adds the “wow” to the gift.

When you make this Sugar Scrub Recipe share a photo! We’d love to see what you made!

Our Crafting Essentials List:

The Cricut Cutting Machine is easily our favorite crafting tool. We use it in so many of our tutorials!
This Fiskars Paper Trimmer is easy to use and cuts nicely without frayed edges.
These Scotch Precision Scissors cut like a dream and you get multiple pairs in a pack!
Keep those started project supplies organized and separated with Stacking Plastic Baskets. I always work on more than 1 project at a time and these baskets really help me from losing supplies.