Yes, you read that right. Coffee + Brown Sugar + Olive Oil = an amazing body scrub that my mom and I are both totally obsessed with.

I really do start an absurd amount of my conversations with that very sentence. Ever since I got a Pinterest account, I’m catching myself falling into the well-known Pinterest rut: repinning cool ideas, but never actually doing anything with them beyond that.

This Coffee Brown Sugar Body Scrub was one of the few things that I’ve seen, repinned, and then actually made. And it was so worth the energy it took to get up from my computer and walk out to the kitchen 😉

But seriously, it’s awesome. I love the yummy coffee smell of course, and my skin feels absolutely incredible afterwards. It’s so easy too.

Mix the coffee and brown sugar…

and then add olive oil until desired consistency is achieved (I added olive oil until sort of moist, but definitely not watery yet).

And that’s it! I use it every 3 or 4 days, though I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t use it every day. I put the scrub into a canning jar for the pictures, but I actually have it in a small plastic container normally, because I felt like a glass jar in the shower might not be such a great idea.

Coffee Brown Sugar Body Scrub

Ingredients:

3/4 cup coffee

1/4 brown sugar

olive oil

Mix the coffee and brown sugar and then add olive oil until desired consistency is achieved (I added olive oil until moist, but not watery).

Jordan

ob-ses-sion (n.) 

1. The state of being obsessed with someone or something.

2. An idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person’s mind.

The reason we started the obsession header is because of my obsession with coffee! I love coffee. I dream of coffee. I think about when I can have more coffee. When I walk into a coffee shop I practically groan because I love the smell of coffee so much. I set my coffee maker up right after dinner for the next morning. As I am walking away, I’m always a little sad because I wish I could have coffee RIGHT NOW! Even though I drink a lot of coffee, I never drink coffee after 4:00 p.m., so I have to start early! My coffee maker goes off during the week at 5:05 am, so that gives me many hours to get my coffee in. While I truly love the smell, taste and affects of coffee – I think that part of the love is the routine and how comforting that warm cup of coffee feels in your hand. Mmmmm – I think I need more coffee now!

Another of my favorite mugs…which is also an important part of my coffee obsession.

I don’t even know how to describe the cuteness of this one….

J