Lavender loveliness: our D-I-Y Lavender & Salt Body Scrub...

If you've got lavender growing in your garden, it's time to harvest it. And we suggest that you might like to make it into the really effective scrub featured in our book The Ultimate Natural Beauty Bible. We've just been reminded about what a fab natural body-buffer this is. Sarah actually made up the scrub for the photography shoot for The Ultimate Natural Beauty Bible, a while back. Since then, it sat in a pretty, vintage, cut glass powder bowl in her bathroom. Finding her post-holiday legs a trifle dry, well actually… rough (eek!), she tried the scrub (which was itself pretty vintage by this stage).

Result!

To her amazement, the scrub was in fine fettle and so five minutes later were Sarah’s legs: smooth, silky and nicely sheeny.

So we thought we should recommend that anyone with access to lavender should seize the moment before the blooms fade, dry them (or you can use them fresh) and make up this lovely scrub.

Lavender and Salt Body Scrub

150 g (5 oz) grain salt (Maldon, crystal, sea salt, kosher or Dead Sea salt)

100 g (4 oz) dried or fresh lavender flowers

375 ml (13 fl oz) sweet almond oil

25 drops lavender essential oil

Mix the dry ingredients and place in a sealable jar (preserving or pickling jars are perfect).

Then pour the oils over them. Depending on the type of salt you use, you may need to add a little more oil to top up the jar.

Use by the handful, applied in circular strokes everywhere except the face and neck, where the skin is way way too fragile.