How to Make a Whipped Sugar Scrub

Hi everyone. I'm Anne Marie from brambleberry.com.  Thanks so much for joining me today. Today I'm   going to be doing a very popular project. That's  right. I'm going to be working with a foaming bath   butter to make a sugar scrub. Now, sugar scrubs  can be made a whole host of ways. The easiest   way to make a sugar scrub is to add a little  bit of oil and a little bit of sugar or some   people like salt and mix that up. And then you  can use that to exfoliate your skin and leave   it soft and moisturized. But some people complain  that it's a little oily and it can leave the tub   or the shower a little oily. This project fixes  all that and more. The secret to this project is   this foaming bath butter base. This foaming bath  butter base is basically a synthetic detergent   base made with very very gentle surfactants to  create this solid foaming bath butter. So on its   own you can use this foaming bath butter without  any additives. I like a little more moisturizing   and conditioning and a little bit more interest on  the ingredient labels. So aloe butter is basically   coconut oil mixed with aloe extract and it  is really fantastic for skin conditioning,   moisturizing, leaves skin feeling soft. And then  we have squalane oil. squalane is kind of like an   ingredient dour right now. It's having its heyday  because it is considered lightweight. It absorbs   into skin really easily. It's non-greasy. And ours  is derived from the pits of olives. Sugar. Well,   Brambleberry doesn't sell sugar. You can get that  at the grocery store, but this is just plain table   sugar. And then the fragrance we're doing today is  Peony and amberwood. This fragrance is really kind   of moody and sultry. It obviously uses Peony and  amberwood, but also has supporting notes of musk,   a little bit of lilacs and those violets and those  purple flowers. It's a very complex floral with a   little bit of kind of sultriness in it. So, if  you really like florals and you like something   more complex, definitely give this one a try.  We're going to be using the Rose Pearl Micah for   our colorant. Just a tiny little bit of color to  add interest. And finally, the Brambleberry glass   jars. Now, this is a giant amount of product.  You might not want to make it in this size. So,   keep that in mind when you're buying your jars.  If you're like, actually, no, my customers do   not need a full like 16 ounces of this product.  They really just need 4 ounces or 8 ounces. Keep   that in mind. So, any glass or plastic jar will  do. Ready to get started? I'm going to show you   how easy it is. The first thing we need to do  is get our foaming bath butter out. There's You   could scoop it out. I'm going to try and just cut  mine out. So, I'm just going to cut it easily and   then get it into my large container. Since this  will kind of poof up in volume, my container is   larger than it needs to be because this entire  project gets floofy, which is really fun.   One note about that fluffiness or fluffiness is  that it can definitely deflate if you whip too   much. And so that's kind of one of those, you  know, when you see it things. I know this looks   like it's really hard and you're like, that's not  going to do anything. It totally does. It's this   magical kind of mix of synthetic detergents  that are mild surfactants that just turn into   this beautiful whipped scrub. So, first things  first, we are going to get this kind of broken up. So, mixing this up took about what, 45 seconds.  It's a lot like frosting. So, everything now is   on the side of our mixing container. I'm  just going to just take my clean spatula,   just kind of push it down towards the middle,  and it'll end up all going back on the sides   anyways after we mix in our oils, but it's good  to start with the corpus of it in the middle. So,   here we have our 2 oz of aloe butter. That's going  to go in and I'm going to add 1 oz of squalane.   Then I'm going to mix all of that in briefly  just to kind of make sure it gets in there   before adding my fragrance and my color. What I  don't want to happen is all of the squalane and   the fragrance to go out. So I'm going to kind of  start this on low and be a little gentle with it. This could not be more gloriously floofy and  fluffy. It looks so good. All right. So now   I'm just going to scrape slowly down the sides.  Add my fragrance oil. And then it will be time   to mix up one more time just briefly. And then  it'll be time just to fold in our sugar just like   regular baking. All right. 9 ml of this Peony and  amberwood. This is this usage rate is pretty low.   And the reason for that is there's nothing in this  project that would change the consistency or the   kind of scent profile of the fragrance. So like  in cold processed soap obviously we have really   high pH and so the usage r a lot higher whereas  this is basically neutral or inert. So we get a   pretty nice low usage rate for our fragrance. It  does still smell really beautiful though. And I   really think that the color we chose goes nicely  with it as well. Color choice is of course up   to you and you could leave it white, but I do  like a little bit of color contrast in there.   I'm just sort of hand stirring this in really  quickly because I don't want to over whip. And   now I'm going to add in my colorant. We're just  going to go with an 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon cuz you   know what you see is what you get. Remember, you  want to start low though because you can't take   it out. And the last thing you want is to add too  much color and have something uh lather up pink,   for example. I'm just going to hand stir this in  just to kind of get the powders mixed in. just a   little before I put in my mixer because we don't  want those powders getting all aerosolizing going   everywhere and not staying in our mix. So, here we  go. Mix in the color and mix in the fragrance now. Okay. And just going to pull these down and make  sure I'm fully mixed. I can see there's some white   underneath that didn't quite get perfectly mixed  in. So, I'm just going to use my elbow strength   here. Yeah, there we go. And having white left  over that's not totally pink is not the end of   the world. It's just nice from a consistency  standpoint to have it all look the same. All   right. And now it's time to fold in our sugar.  Now, you can use a little bit more, a little bit   less. Kind of depends on what your preference  is. This foaming bath butter is very forgiving,   very stable. It can totally take a lot of sugar.  I'm going to just fold it in kind of like you do   with baking. And then I'm going to add some  more before I also give it another whipping. So, I've got my sugar mostly folded in.  So, now I'm just going to get into this   whipping process. And I'm going to  turn it on low again, not too high. So now I'm just going to get in here and  kind of move things around and get make   sure that everything is fully whipped cuz  that bottom layer the mixer tends not to   quite get it. Like I see some sugar that  needs to be blended in. So now I'm going   to do that all over again now that I've  gotten the bottom layer back up to the top. That was fun. There you have it. That is how  easy and simple it is to make this project. Now,   of course, if you're making this project  to sell, um, make sure you're using good   manufacturing practices, which means you're  actually using gloves and you have your hair   and your hairnet and you are working in a  clean kitchen environment. I hope you loved   this video. You can buy all the ingredients at  brambleberry.com. And please subscribe to the   channel and tell me what else you'd like me to  make in the comments because I'm here to help   you be a better crafter, better soap maker, better  DIYer. Until next time everyone, happy soaping.