Recipe and Styling by Libbie Summers
Photography by Chia Chong
Food Stylist’s Assistant and Model: Candace Brower
A last minute gift of smooth skin and wide eyes is only a few ingredients away. If you’re making it for a friend, do yourself a favor and double the recipe and give a gift to yourself.
Grapefruit and Rosemary Salt Scrub
makes about 1 ½ cups
Ingredients:
1 cup kosher salt
zest of 1 grapefruit
2 teaspoons fresh rosemary, finely minced
½ cup pure organic almond oil
a few drops grapefruit essential oil (optional)
Directions:
In a small mixing bowl, stir together all the ingredients. Pour into a sterilized jar with a tight fitting lid. (I sterilize mine by running through the dishwasher.)
To use: Stir mixture and apply to a clean body in the shower. Rinse and pat dry with a towel.
Note: Scrub will keep in an air-tight container at room-temperature for 4 months.
More gift suggestions from the Salted and Styled kitchen:
•Cherry Verenya
•Salsa Verde
•Sweet Onion Bourbon Jam
•Mandarin Orange Prosecco Preserves
•Homemade Black Licorice
•Quick and Easy Pickled Vegetables
•Lavender Marshmallows (Adult S’mores/Adult S’more kits)
And don’t forget a last minute gift of art (one of my favorite gifts to receive, especially if it comes from the hand, heart and head of Katherine Sandoz). Buy HERE.
Libbie’s Photo Styling Props: (top photo) Shot on white washed wood. Almond oil is in an old Campari bottle I brought back from Italy and sitting on a piece of an old cashmere sweater. Scrub in a white bowl from Homegoods. Spoon from Table Matters in Birmingham, AL. (Bottom Photo) If you ever work as an assistant of mine, plan on being in front of the camera at some point. Meet my new assistant, Candace Brower. A recent graduate of Johnson and Wales, Candace is stylish, organized, can craft AND look adorable while balancing salt scrub on her head while I spritz her with water.
