Your skin will thank you when you pamper it with this antioxidant-rich DIY Beet Grapefruit Sugar Scrub with ingredients from your kitchen. It’s packed with healthful properties designed to exfoliate and brighten your skin.
Let’s step outside of the recipe box today with this DIY Beet Grapefruit Sugar Scrub. Are your hands feeling dry or cracked from starting your spring cleaning? Is your body feeling flaky and itchy from the cold winter months? Instead of buying store-bought exfoliating beauty products, make this scrub yourself and store in the refrigerator for up to a month. You will love the benefits each of these delightful kitchen ingredients brings to your body without artificial ingredients. This scrub is also perfect in the guest bathroom. Your friends and family will love the pampering feeling they get and beg you for your secret.
DIY Beet Grapefruit Sugar Scrub
- Coconut Oil is a great, natural moisturizer that’s easily absorbed by the skin. It makes your skin softer to the touch and smoother in appearance.
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Beets – Both betanin and vulgaxanthin, two highly-researched betalains found in beets, have powerful antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and detoxification properties.
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Grapefruit will exfoliate, detox, and brighten your skin. Grapefruit is high in antioxidants, which fight the free radicals that cause wrinkles, discoloration, and dull complexion.
- Sugar has natural humectant properties, making these scrubs more hydrating than salt scrubs, which can strip skin of natural oils.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups Organic Cane Sugar
- 1 grapefruit, insides pulled out
- 1 tablespoon grapefruit zest
- 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- 1/2 of 1 medium beet, stem and roots removed
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a blender.
- Pulse until you get a nice consistency.
- Place in a mason jar, seal tightly, and keep refrigerated for up to a month.
Notes
Home Chef Tip: Add 1/2 cup steel cut oats for a thicker mixture.

This DIY Beet Grapefruit Sugar Scrub is amazing for your skin, and it’s a great way to make your guests feel special. Who knew feeling pampered at home could be this affordable? If you love this body scrub as much as we do, you might want to try our DIY Lemon Essential Oil Sugar Scrub too.
Disclosure: The author of this article is not a trained medical professional, nor a dietician. All of the information in this post is based on research and personal experience.
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