Entangled Botanicals by Ashley November

Work this simple and sweetly scented natural scrub into your feet and feel like a queen.

Strawberry Foot Scrub.

2 teaspoons coarse salt

2 tablespoons olive oil

8 fresh strawberries

1. Pour salt into a mixing bowl. Add the oil and stir to combine. Remove caps from strawberries and slice or chop them. Add strawberries to the salt and oil mixture and mash with a potato masher or fork. The resulting mixture should be chunky but well blended.
2. Rub this mixture onto your feet, massaging the balls of the feet and the heels. If desired, use a body puff or foot brush. Rinse off and coat feet with a gentle lotion.

This recipe makes one treatment.

Cornmeal Hand Scrub.

This gentle massage scrub does not cost much to make and leaves your hands smooth and soft.

1/4 cup cornmeal

3 tablespoons milk

1 drop almond oil {or almond extract}

1. In a small saucepan, mix the cornmeal with the milk. Heat the mixture over a low flame on the stove-top until it forms a paste. Remove from the heat and stir in the almond oil. Allow to cool.
2. Spread mixture on hands and allow to sit for 10 minutes. Gently scrub your hands with the mixture and then rinse off with warm water.