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- Melissa Breyer
- August 2, 2011
- 10:30 am
- 158 comments
Too many bananas in the fruit bowl? Skip the banana bread and feed your skin instead with this luxuriant yet simple homemade banana body sugar scrub.
Bananas are a natural for body care. Their creamy pulp is luscious and soothing, and works well as a carrier for other ingredients. Banana is nourishing and moisturizing and can be used for gentle exfoliation and skin-tightening.
In this simple formula, bananas and sugar are combined for a wonderfully aromatic and gently exfoliating body scrub.
INGREDIENTS
1 ripe banana
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract or your favorite essential oil (optional)
Mash ingredients together with a fork into a chunky paste. Do not overmix or it will become too watery. If you want a banana scrub for your face, reserve some of the banana and mash it separately without sugar.
In the shower, before turning the water on, slather the sugar mixture and gently massage over your body. For your face, gently massage plain banana there, avoiding the eye area.
Rinse off with warm water.
Read more: Beauty, Bath & Shower, Skin Care
By Melissa Breyer, Senior Producer, Care2 Green Living
Melissa Breyer
Melissa Breyer is a writer and editor with a background in sustainable living, specializing in food, science and design. She is the co-author of True Food (National Geographic) and has edited and written for regional and international books and periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine. Melissa lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Adorable kitten, and hilarious "commentary" (let's move on...)
Will try.
Interesting, thank you.
Thanks Dr. Greger for the video, very informative article and the links.
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158 comments
+ add your ownDef will be trying this scrub! Thanks 4 the recipe!
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Mutipurposed.
Does it need to be refrigerated? Sounds super yummy, but not if i have to keep in fridge.
thx
will try, ... it cant hurt!!
Thanks! I heard about using bananas on your face recently when I ran into a coworker who appeared to have bits of banana on her face. I mentioned that she had a bit of banana on her forhead and she told me she just ate one. I questioned her again and she explained that she rubs the banana peel all over her face after eating the fruit. She has been doing this for years and looks great!
I personally think that it is the sugar that does the trick in any of these scrubs
thanks :D
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