Bath and Body

Buttery Three-Color Salt Scrub Cubes

Make salt scrub cubes with cocoa butter, avocado butter and Epsom salt in three scents and colors, chilled in a mold. Rub one cube on wet skin.

Buttery Three-Color Salt Scrub Cubes

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Cocoa and avocado butters with Epsom salt, split into three scents and colors and chilled in a cube mold. Rub one on wet skin or crumble into a bath.
Prep Time25 minutes
Cook Time5 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
CourseDIY

What You’ll Need
  

  • 2.5 oz cocoa butter pastilles
  • 4 oz avocado butter
  • 0.7 oz polysorbate 80
  • 2 mL each Dark Crystal Rose Quartz and Emerald Agave fragrance oils
  • 16 oz extra-fine Epsom salt
  • small amounts of cosmetic lavender rose and green micas

Equipment

  • double boiler
  • mixing bowl
  • mason jars

Directions
 

Make the mix
  1. Gently melt the cocoa and avocado butters together, then mix in the polysorbate.
  2. Stir in the Epsom salt and split into three batches.
  3. To each batch, add one fragrance and the matching mica.
  4. Pack tightly into a silicone cube mold and chill until hard.
  5. Pop the cubes out and keep them in a dry wide-mouth jar.
To use
  1. Rub one cube over wet skin, or crumble it into running bathwater.

Notes

Ensure molded cubes are firm before jarring; use caution because butters may make surfaces slippery.

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