Why Use Scrubs?

Lesson Info

Why Use Scrubs?

This class is all about how to make scrubs. Why you use scrubs? Why you choose the scrubby exfoliants you choose? What exfoliants are best for which body parts? And then after I go over kind of all the basic mechanics and cleanliness, preservatives, the ingredients for the scrubs, then we're gonna actually make scrub live right now. So we're gonna be using a scrub using Himalayan sea salts. A facial scrub that uses ground walnut shells. And then an emulsified scrub that is both a lotion, a soap, and a scrub all in one. So why use a scrub, right? Like our skin does a pretty good job. We shower, we use soap. Why in the world would you want to literally scrub off the first layer of your skin with a manual exfoliant like a sea salt? The reason you would want to use an exfoliant like a sea salt or walnut shells or pumice on your skin is because, though our skin naturally sheds right around 50,000 cells every minute and rebuilds, right I know right, crazy, and rebuilds itself every 28 days, ...

a total epithelial layer of our skin rebuilds every 28 days, as we age, that slows down. That process slows down. In addition to that any sort of outdoor activity that you do, whether it's hiking, biking, surfing, anything that exposes you to wind, sand, sun, also will prematurely age the skin causing more dry patches. And when you have dry patches you can have breakouts, ingrown hairs. And if you wear foundation or makeup the makeup doesn't go on nearly as smoothly for example. Or if you're doing self-tanner and you're trying to put self-tanner on your skin, the self-tanner ends up kinda going on patchy. So exfoliating is a really important part of, well, general body maintenance and it's oftentimes overlooked. A traditional scrub like the one that you've seen in the stores is usually something like an exfoliant, so sea salt, and a carrier oil. So for example, when I first started making and selling soap products at the age of 18, one of my very first craft shows, up in Bellingham, Washington, I had these little glass jars. I filled them with salt and then I poured olive oil over them. Put a little bit of fragrance in them. And sold them for $ for tiny, tiny little jar for Christmas presents for people and sold hundreds of them. That was magic. It was amazing. And it was a very, very simple, traditional scrub. In this course we are going way past that kind of simple, traditional scrub and we're going to be using exotic ingredients and making, again, the three different kinds of scrubs. Scrubs can be as easy or as complicated as you want. They're super fun to make because, again, you can make 'em with kids if you're just doing salt plus oil. Or you can make them more unique and make a night of it and have fun with your girlfriends or your friends and have a craft night. They make beautiful gifts. Or, again, super popular in stores to sell.

Class Description

Lessons

1. Class Introduction
2. The Science of Soap Making
3. Important Soaping Vocabulary
4. How to Use Oils, Colorants, Additives & Molds
5. Tools Needed to Make Soap
6. How to Use Lye Safely
7. Lavender Everything Cold Process Soap Recipe
8. Ingredients to Make Lotion
9. Emulsifiers & Co-Emulsifiers for Lotion
10. Preservatives for Lotion
11. Liquids for Lotion
12. Color & Additives for Lotion
13. How to Sanitize Before Making Lotion
14. How to Make Lotion: Beginner's Recipe
15. Label Lotion to Sell
16. How to Make a Balm: Whipped Avocado Balm
17. Why Use Scrubs?
18. Different Kinds of Exfoliants
19. Preservatives in Scrubs?
20. How to Make Pink Sea Salt Body Scrub
21. How to Make Walnut Facial Scrub
22. How to Make an Emulsified Scrub
23. Label to Sell Scrubs
24. Handmade Beauty Box: Shaving Soap
25. Handmade Beauty Box: Jojoba Bead Scrub