Friday, June 20, 2008

Cowboy Foot Scrub

Create a natural homemade foot scrub for the hard worker in your life.
From "Craft Lab"
Episode DCLB-143 (DIY Network)

Guest Sabrina Collins joins host Jennifer Perkins and demonstrates how to use powdered milk, cornmeal, vitamin E and lotion to create a foot scrub. She then bottles the scrub and puts it in a cowboy boot along with a pedicure kit as a great guy gift.

Materials:

7 oz. unscented lotion base
1 Tbs. powdered milk or soy milk
1 Tbs. blue cornmeal
1 Tbs. sea salt (fine ground)
2 Tbs. shea butter, melted
1 tsp. vegetable glycerin
1 tsp. Vitamin E
6-10 drops fragrance oil or essential oil
Cowboy boot
pedicure kit/nail brush

Cowboy Foot Scrub

Melt/liquefy shea butter in microwave (intervals of 10 seconds), and be careful not to overheat or burn the shea butter. Melt on the stove top (stay by the stove--you do not want the shea butter to burn or overheat, just warm enough to melt).

Cool slightly and add to lotion base stirring well.

After you have blended the shea butter and lotion base together pour just a little in a small bowl. Stir in the Sea salt and powdered milk. By doing this you will not have any lumps on the scrub. What you are looking for is a well-blended slightly gritty texture scrub.

Once you have stirred well, pour the remaining lotion base and the other ingredients and the other ingredients and stir well again. Funnel into a dispenser bottle.

Note: This recipe makes eight ounces.

A pair of boots can be purchased from a flea market, yard sale or second hand store. Just give the boot a good cleaning and shine. Replace the inside sole of the boot with a new one. Fill one boot with a nail brush, file, soap and foot scrub.

RESOURCES:

All Products Used on Show
Face Your Body Aromatherapy
Website: http://www.faceyourbody.com/

Dispenser Bottles, Wooden Box, Embellishments
Michaels Arts and Crafts
Website: http://www.michaels.com/

Plate and Chopsticks
Pier 1 Imports
Website: http://www.pier1.com/

GUESTS:
Sabrina Collins
Face Your Body Aromatherapy
Website: http://www.faceyourbody.com/

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Source: http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/cr_special_days_gifts/article/0,2025,DIY_13777_5122884,00.html

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