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Homemade Body Scrubs for Healthy Glowing Skin

Coffee grounds for skin care (Photo credit: Sandy Austin ) Some people have great skin that a small dab of coconut oil is enough to scrub away the topmost layer of dead skin cells, grime, and excess oil with a wash cloth. For a deeper cleanse and a pore refining remedy, it's best you apply an exfoliating scrub on your face and body. The following are recipes of homemade scrubs using ingredients you can find in your kitchen or the grocery store. Ground Coffee Scrub Don't throw away those ground coffee beans you still have in your pot. You can use them as your main ingredient in your homemade body scrub. Mix 1/4 cup ground coffee with 1/4 cup brown sugar. Add 2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil and three-fourths of a teaspoon of Vitamin E oil. If you don't have a bottle of this stuff, then you can slit three capsules of Vitamin E and squeeze out the liquid inside. Use a safety pin or needle to pierce the gel capsule. Coconut Vanilla Sugar Scrub This recipe req...