I’m new here and would like to make sugar scrubs to give this
holiday season. I like the recipes that add ground oatmeal or
almonds, but I wonder about their shelf life and if they need to be
refrigerated. Any experience? Also, I have seen where people add
lavendar and other herbs. What is their shelf life? Will they
mold?
I have lavendar EO and rosemary, as well as both in herb form. Will
those scents go together? Any ideas what I can add to either one or
both? TIA!!!!
Shelf life and scrubs with oatmeal
May 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: Beauty
2 responses so far ↓
1 Maureen Tammara // May 30, 2006 at 4:59 am
Sorry but jojoba and vitamin e are not preservatives. Vitamin e is an
antioxidant and perhaps jojoba too (I had not heard that before) but
neither will stop the beasties from growing. Unless the scrubs have
water your probably don’t need a preservative unless you are using fresh
herbs.
Despite many claims to the contrary there really are no known “natural”
preservatives.
2 cline_180 // Jun 9, 2006 at 8:09 pm
Hello
I don’t think there are natural preservtives. There may be natural things
that help prolong the life of some things but vit e and jojoba oil don’t kill
bacteria to my knowledge, If something is properly preserved then there is no
need to keep it in the fridge.
just my 2 cents
winter
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