How to make tree hut sugar scrubs at home
Tree Hut Scrubs is a hot trend now with their wide range of products, amazing texture, and colorful design. No wonder I had many requests to replicate their formula as close as possible.
Happy news for you guys! Making Tree Hut kinda scrubs are so easy, uncomplicated, and time-effective. It literally takes just 5-10 minutes including the time to collect your ingredients.
First, let's take a look at Tree Hut's ingredient list and make a quick analysis.
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I took three different scrubs from their range but as you can see their ingredient lists are about the same and consist of
sugar -exfoliator
glycerine - humectant
polysorbate 20 - surfactant, can emulsify a small % of oils
💜Silica - gelling agent, thickener for oils💜
oils/shea butter
extracts - usually powdered extracts to act as extra exfoliating particles
preservative
fragrance
antioxidant
➡️Silica can make oil gels and thicken them quite nicely so if you want to make this type of scrub you do need this ingredient.⬅️
What is interesting about the Tree Hut scrub is that they most likely don’t use a lot of oils. Based on the texture and thickness of their body polishes the Silica is used at 2-5% so everything after that has to be lower than 2-5%. Furthermore, polysorbate 20 is a “weak” solubilizer used to emulsify small amounts of oils (essential oils, fragrance oils) and that’s why I think these scrubs contain fewer oils and butter than you think.
I tried using it in different ratios of 2-5% and I will be sharing three versions of my scrub, the fourth formula is for patrons only.
You can make these scrubs with or without glycerine, substitte oils, exfoliators, colors and fragrances but make sure you have enough liquids to wet Silica.
For a basic scrub with Silica, you need sugar, silica, polysorbate 20 or polysorbate 80, a carrier oil, and a preservative.
Let’s take a look at my first formula
Feel free to substitute the oils in my formulation for the oil that you have on hand.
1. Combine the B and C phases and melt them in the double boiler.
2. In the separate beaker combine the D phase and add it to the A phase once it is melted and cold off to 45-50C.
3. Once the mixture reaches 40C add the exfoliators. Stir to combine
This body scrub has a texture of thick gel as you can see on the pictures above.
Mango Tangerine Body Scrub
This body scrub is very basic but the texture is still amazing!It is not as thick as the previous one. I love it!
Simply stir to combine the A phase ingredients and then add the B phase ingredients (sugar and the exfoliating granules).
Lavender &Vanilla Sugar Scrub
Combine B, C and D and stir to combine. Add the A phase ingrediets and mix until everything is well combined.
If you want to learn how to make other types of scrubs check out my tutorials down below
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