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Cotton Candy Lip Scrub

January 21, 2016

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This cotton candy flavored lip scrub is perfect for sweet, kissable lips! One of the best homemade sugar scrubs out there!

Cotton Candy Lip Scrub - a cotton candy flavored, homemade sugar scrub for sweet, kissable lips!

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You know I can’t get through winters around here without my lip scrub. In fact, if I didn’t have a lip and skin regimen in the winter, my lips would crack off and I would just dry up. One of my favorite DIY recipes is this Vanilla Sugar Lip Polish made with coconut oil. Today, I’m sharing a new creation that I just know you’re going to love! COTTON CANDY Lip Scrub!! Doesn’t it look good enough to eat?! The good news is. . .I suppose you could eat it. Well, let’s just be honest here, you can eat it and you will live to see tomorrow. SO good.

I think it’s projects like this that really showcase who I am – food blogger + DIY blogger = DIY projects you can eat. What do you think? I like the sounds of that.

How to Make Cotton Candy Lip Scrub

Ingredients:

  • 5 tablespoons sugar, divided
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons olive oil, divided
  • 6 drops cotton candy flavoring, divided
  • 2 drops blue food coloring
  • 2 drops pink food coloring

Instructions:

Blue Scrub

  1. In a small bowl mix 2 tablespoons sugar with 1 teaspoon olive oil. Add 3 drops cotton candy flavoring and 2 drops blue food coloring. Set aside.

Pink Scrub

  1. In a small bowl mix 2 tablespoons sugar with 1 teaspoon olive oil. Add 3 drops cotton candy flavoring and 2 drops pink food coloring. Set aside.

White Scrub

  1. In a small bowl mix 1 tablespoon sugar with 1/2 teaspoon olive oil. Set aside.

Mixing the Sugars Together

  1. In a separate bowl add the blue sugar to one side of the bowl and the pink to the other.
  2. Pour the white sugar into the middle of the bowl and swirl the colors together with a knife.

Cotton Candy Lip Scrub - a cotton candy flavored, homemade sugar scrub for sweet, kissable lips!

I wanted to take you through the first step of the recipe so you can see how I create the beautiful cotton candy color blend. You start out with plain sugar. For photo purposes, I made a much larger batch than what the recipe calls for. What did I do with it all in the end? I filled a couple small containers and then used the rest of it on my legs, using the same process defined in my Silky Smooth Legs Sugar Scrub post. Dual purpose. And just another reason you need to make this amazing scrub.

I use lip scrub year round. I rub it onto and around my lips in the shower. It sloughs off any dead, rough, or loose skin and preps your lips for the lipstick or gloss you’ll put on before you run out of the door for the day. Smart? Smart.

Okay, so back to our sugar. . .here’s where you should read the recipe before you start making this lip scrub. There are a couple steps to the recipe, and you DON’T dump all of the sugar into one bowl. You need to divide the sugar into three separate bowls.

So, for example, for the pink sugar, you’d use 2 tablespoons sugar, add a teaspoon of olive oil and 3 drops of the cotton candy flavoring. Then add a couple drops of pink food coloring and mix it together. You follow the same process for the blue sugar scrub and then make a smaller amount of the white sugar scrub. When you swirl the colors together, you get. . .this. . .

Cotton Candy Lip Scrub - a cotton candy flavored, homemade sugar scrub for sweet, kissable lips!

I almost wanted to bake a batch of cupcakes and just sprinkle this stuff on top. You know, I still may have to do that. It would be a sugar overload for sure, but oh so pretty. I mean, who doesn’t like cotton candy? I love it so much that I’ve made fudge, lemonade, cupcakes. . .all cotton candy flavored. Do you think I’m getting spring fever already?

The colors in this scrub and the sweet flavor is just such an awesome combo. It would make a great gift for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, birthdays, Christmas. . .any occasion really. So, order up some of that cotton candy flavoring, grab your sugar and olive oil and let’s DO this!

Scrub will keep for up to two months in an airtight container.

Cotton Candy Lip Scrub - a cotton candy flavored, homemade sugar scrub for sweet, kissable lips!

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  1. Sam says

    January 22, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    OMG, this is so cute and I love how well it photographed. This would be perfect for my niece; thanks for sharing it!

    Reply
    • Sara says

      January 24, 2016 at 2:39 pm

      I’m so glad you like it, Sam!! I hope you try it!

      Reply
    • nancy says

      February 5, 2016 at 10:10 am

      BTW, your blog is great! I only just started and it’s not easy to do, and make it look so good at the same time!

      Reply
  2. nancy says

    February 5, 2016 at 10:08 am

    Just finished 27 days without my cosmetics and hair products, (and lived to blog about it). Thought I would never go back to homemade but stumbled upon this on Pinterest and it looks awesome! I just shared it with my followers! My kids are going to love it too. So cute for Valentines!
    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Sara says

      February 8, 2016 at 5:07 am

      Thank you, Nancy! I’m not sure I could go even 1 day without any sort of cosmetics! Good for you and thank you for sharing!

      Reply
  3. Samantha says

    July 16, 2016 at 1:13 am

    Can you use vanilla extract instead of cotton candy flavoring???

    Reply
    • Sara says

      July 24, 2016 at 6:03 pm

      Yes, you can!

      Reply
  4. Raegan says

    October 14, 2016 at 1:21 am

    Hi, I love this idea. Can you substitute the Olive oil for anything?
    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Sara says

      October 16, 2016 at 9:23 pm

      I haven’t tried the recipe with anything but olive oil. If you substitute make sure it’s not an oil like coconut oil that would solidify once it cools.

      Reply
  5. Sheila hill says

    November 14, 2016 at 2:01 pm

    Love to know how to make the srucb

    Reply
    • Sara says

      November 16, 2016 at 8:57 pm

      The recipe is right at the bottom of the post, Sheila!

      Reply
  6. Hannah says

    November 21, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    The food coloring won’t stain my lips or anything, will it? Thanks.

    Reply
    • Sara says

      November 22, 2016 at 6:35 am

      It shouldn’t, Hannah. The amount of food coloring you use in the recipe isn’t substantial.

      Reply
      • Gracie says

        November 27, 2016 at 8:55 pm

        Hi, This idea is great for school and just at home I love the colors you chose and how you put it all down on how to do it for dummies like me. But nice job and keep going because it’s amazing and my mom loves it. Byeeeeee

        Reply
  7. Amanda C says

    December 10, 2016 at 5:14 pm

    I just made this, but my Olive oil was a yellow color. Luckily I was making these for Xmas presents and it became a “holiday” lip scrub (red and GREEN…the yellow and blue made green lol)

    Reply
    • Amanda says

      March 10, 2017 at 3:26 pm

      Am I really the only one who had the problem with the olive oil being yellow? Because its not a clear oil…My colors mixed with the olive oil and i couldnt get them right.

      Reply
      • Sara says

        March 12, 2017 at 9:03 pm

        Hi Amanda, I never had this problem at all. Maybe it’s the type of olive oil? I use Bertolli.

        Reply
  8. Cass says

    January 22, 2017 at 1:56 am

    Hey! Love the easy recipe! Can you use coconut oil instead of olive oil?

    Reply
    • Sara says

      January 26, 2017 at 10:13 pm

      The coconut oil may harden it. I would stick with olive oil or at least something that wouldn’t solidify like coconut oil does. Now if you were making homemade chapstick, coconut oil would be a perfect choice!

      Reply
  9. Bella shealy says

    January 22, 2017 at 4:05 pm

    Is this easy to make ?

    Reply
    • Sara says

      January 26, 2017 at 10:12 pm

      I thought so. I know you’ll think so, too! There are only a couple ingredients needed. I hope you try it out!

      Reply
  10. Megan says

    January 31, 2017 at 12:10 pm

    Looks pretty
    ☺️????

    Reply
  11. Cam says

    February 24, 2017 at 12:16 pm

    Can you use anything besides the cotten candy flavoring?

    Reply
    • Sara says

      February 25, 2017 at 11:37 am

      If you’d like to give it a flavor other than cotton candy, sure!

      Reply
  12. Brittany says

    October 8, 2017 at 4:38 pm

    Can you use watermelon and apple and starwberry flavoring instead of cotton candy flavor

    Reply
    • Sara says

      October 8, 2017 at 9:18 pm

      I don’t see why not!

      Reply
  13. Alaina says

    November 11, 2017 at 1:20 pm

    This is amazing! It’s easy and fun. I had all the ingredients for it and I loved it! I’ve tried multiple flavors such as fruit punch, banana and more!

    Reply
    • Sara says

      November 17, 2017 at 6:57 pm

      Ooh, the fruit punch would be awesome!

      Reply
  14. Baylei says

    November 24, 2017 at 3:35 pm

    How many ounces does this yield?

    Reply
    • Sara says

      November 26, 2017 at 10:39 pm

      About 2.5 ounces or 5 tablespoons.

      Reply
  15. Chloe says

    May 10, 2018 at 7:12 am

    Wow! I love this! I tried it and it came out the same way as in th picture. Love this so much and I will apply this to my lips everyday!!!

    Reply
    • Sara says

      May 11, 2018 at 10:09 pm

      I’m so glad you like it, Chloe!

      Reply
  16. Bonnie says

    September 3, 2018 at 9:57 pm

    I absolutely have to make this! It looks so fun.

    Reply
    • Sara says

      September 4, 2018 at 10:42 am

      I hope you try it, Bonnie!

      Reply
  17. Samantha says

    May 14, 2019 at 5:28 pm

    Did you use extra virgin olive oil or just olive oil?

    Reply
    • Sara says

      May 26, 2019 at 9:44 pm

      Either would be fine!

      Reply
  18. Anonymous says

    November 16, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    Thanks so much for this. My sister will love this. ❤️ 💕

    Reply
  19. Suzanne says

    January 21, 2021 at 3:20 pm

    This looks so good! What a fun gift to make for friends or to enjoy yourself!

    Reply
  20. Vanessa says

    January 21, 2021 at 3:21 pm

    Thanks for sharing! Does it keep long?

    Reply
    • Sara says

      January 25, 2021 at 10:26 am

      It will keep up to two weeks if refrigerated.

      Reply

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