In case you find yourself twiddling your thumbs this weekend, I have an easy craft project to cure your Idlehands-itis.

I made this simple Lemon Green Tea Sugar Scrub in no time and with very little elbow grease. It smells fresh and rings in spring with citrusy goodness. Best of all, it isn’t gloopy like other sugar scrubs and is perfect as a homemade gift.

It’s adapted from Mark Montano’s Big-A** Book Of Crafts. (I don’t swear much, not even in writing! So you can just deal with the asterisks, haha!) It uses easy-to-find ingredients, most of which are probably already in your pantry. (In fact, this scrub is so natural it’s edible! If you’re stuck in your bathroom during a nuclear fallout you can probably eat this. But let’s just hope you use this for vanity’s sake, not survival!)

You’ll need:

1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons Epsom salt
10 teaspoons olive oil (I used one marked “Light” on the bottle so it wouldn’t have a strong smell)
2 teaspoons honey (the darker, the better!)
3 green tea bags
1 lemon to zest (organic preferred)

Zest your lemon and set aside.

Combine the sugar and Epsom salt in a large mixing bowl. Tear open your green tea bags and mix the now-loose tea right in. Add the olive oil, mix in, then add the honey. This is actually efficient because the sugar-salt-tea mixture is able to break down the thick honey, plus the leftover olive oil in your measuring spoon allows the honey to slide right out.

Somewhere in the middle of all this mixing and stirring, you have to laugh when you catch the honey bear and your zester exchanging pleasantries/flirting. Haha!

Add the lemon zest last.

What you get is this awesome, all-natural potion of good things that has exfoliating and moisturizing powers.

If you were to give this as a gift, take a beautiful container (mine has a matching small scoop)…

…and fill it with your homemade scrub. (By the way, I had to double the recipe above to make enough for my glass jar.)

Finish off with a handwritten label and some lovely baker’s twine. (I got mine from Odette and her pretty Etsy shop.)

Package in wrapping tissue as a sweet, homemade gift—this one went to E.’s mom for her birthday (though I liked it so much I’m making a batch for myself)!

Yay, Friday! Have a fun, crafty weekend, all.

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Further Reading Into The Art Of Sugarscrubology (or other stuff to learn because, you know, learning is sexy)

Mark Montano’s Big A** Book of Crafts (with free links to other crafty ideas)

Sugar scrubs are cool. (And good for you!)

What is Epsom salt? (Because I sure as heck didn’t know!)

Why is darker honey better?

“I want to get a flirty zester like yours to keep my whisk company.”

“That glass jar is fabulous! Where did you get it?”

Martha Stewart pre-cut tags are cute beyond words. Because she’s a genius.

You need this Baker’s Twine from the Packages & Strings Etsy shop in your life. Trust me.