Bikini season is just around the corner and while you all may be hitting the gym more diligently and slathering up daily with anti cellulite creams, you might want to add this exfoliating skin firming treatment to your regimen. Everyone has their own little ways of preparing their bodies for summertime, and this is one of mine. Simple, beneficial and totally worth sharing. Many of you may already know that exfoliating your face and body results in smoother, softer, suppler skin. Great right? Now add fat reduction and skin firming capabilities to that list of benefits. Well now, that’s even better.
I’ve recently learned that caffeine has some pretty amazing effects on your skin. It constricts blood vessels and while doing so reduces redness and greatly aids in maintaining an even skin tone. It also has the ability to reduce the size of fat cells. When absorbed into the skin, caffeine will literally shrink fat cells to a smaller size. I wanted to incorporate this magic into a sugar scrub which is a really good way to ensure that something is absorbed into the skin.
This is what I came up with…
DIY Skin Firming Sugar Scrub Recipe:
- 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/4 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1/4 cup Ground Espresso or Ground Coffee
- 1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Mixing instructions:
- Combine brown sugar, granulated sugar, and ground espresso (or coffee) together in medium sized tupperware or jar. Mix and blend well with fork or whisk until all three dry ingredients are integrated with one another
- Pour olive oil into the mixture
- Use a fork to blend all ingredients thoroughly. Should end up looking like potting soil with a paste-like consistency
- Cover with tupperware or jar lid and store in your bathroom.
How to use:
Massage sugar scrub into wet skin at the end of your shower for about 1 minute before rinsing away. With regular daily use you will see (and feel) the results sooner than you’d think. Note that some jars are prone to rusting so if you opted to make this in a jar with a metal lid then you might wish to store your sugar scrub in the medicine cabinet rather than shower to avoid any rust.
You’re skin will be softer after just one scrub down and by summertime your bodies will be silky smooth, and glowing. Have fun revealing your inner goddesses, and don’t forget to let the she-wolf out to play too!
7 comments
Thank you for this post on Brown sugar/coffee/ olive oil scrub! been using for about 4 days now and wow, skin so soft and feels so smooth to the touch. And if it reduces the appearance of cellulite, BONUS!!! I love the way my skin looks allover! Keep up the articles. I love to read your stuff!!
Tried this for the first time this morning. This stuff smells so yummy and my skin feels so AMAZING that I won’t care if it doesn’t firm anything!
This is amazing. I have been using this for 5 days and from day one, my skin has started improving. My skin was dry and dull and just looking “blah,” in general. I am also using this on my hands and arms, as the skin there pretty dry and old looking. I may start using this on my legs next!
Hi!
I am so glad I found this article and cannot wait to start using it! I just had a question about the coffee. Does it have to be fresh, un-brewed coffee, or can I use coffee grounds that I have used already? Does it make a difference?
Thanks in advance!
I’m so glad you are looking forward to using this scrub! I’d think you could use either fresh or used grounds for this scrub, but keep in mind that fresh will have more caffeine than used grounds and therefore would most likely be more effective at melting the cellulite. I’ve used used ground to exfoliate my legs for years before using this scrub and it’s always made my legs smooth and shiny- so there’s always a use for your used grounds!
Hi,
I’ve been using used coffee grounds for awhile now as a scrub, the residual oils in the bean are great. Just wondering why the addition of the sugar, given the grounds give quite a good exfoliation.
cheers
Karen
You bring up an excellent point Karen! As far as I know, sugar has no other skin properties other than exfoliation so if you feel the grounds do enough exfoliation on their own the scrub will probably work just as well! I’d just adjust the amount of olive oil you put in your formula to keep it from getting too goopey!