Gardeners scrub - Arts, Crafts and DIY

78 Comments

I made this gardeners scrub for my Mum’s birthday and she loves it and said it works the best out of anything she has used. I put it in a wide neck jar with a flip lid for easy access when you have dirty gardening hands.

Material

1 - 1 1/2 cups Sugar
10 drops Peppermint essence
10 drops Tea tree oil
1/2 cup Dish liquid or liquid soap
1 tablespoon Coconut/macadamia/olive oil
Zest of 1 Lemon

Method

Mix the wet ingredients and lemon zest together.
Add wet mix to sugar. If mixture is dry add a little more soap and if too wet add more sugar.
Mix all together and put into a wide neck jar.

Notes

Really easy project, a great gift for any keen gardener.

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- suebott
- 01 Oct 2015
  10:37 pm

78 Comments

- - ChiWren said
  - 04 Jul 2024
    2:29 pm
Going to give this a try! It sounds amazing

- - Mum2archer said
  - 22 May 2022
    11:18 pm
Fantastic idea as a little gift for the keen gardener in your life! It would smell amazing too!

- - Ellen said
  - 19 Sep 2021
    7:47 am
That’s a lovely gift for those with green fingers !

- - mom19782016 said
  - 16 Oct 2020
    8:54 am
Another great idea for handmade Xmas presents

- - Petal53 said
  - 29 Apr 2020
    10:18 am
I’m sure this would work a treat, and the smell would be amazing. Great idea.

- - mom462038 said
  - 24 Apr 2020
    7:44 pm
Peppermint, tea tree, coconut this is going to smell so good! The fact that it cleans so well too is an added bonus

- - melisa said
  - 16 Apr 2020
    1:54 am
This is exactly what I’m looking for to clean my hands when I’m finished gardening. I love this idea. Perfect little gift too.

- - Jbuttxx said
  - 10 Dec 2019
    4:40 am
What an excellent idea just in time for Christmas

- - mom360699 said
  - 07 Sep 2019
    2:24 pm
This is excellent! Thankyou – looking forward to trying this.

- - celebrity said
  - 13 Aug 2019
    11:42 am
This is a great idea. Would also make good Christmas presents for the gardeners in my family!

- - mom129591 said
  - 22 Jul 2019
    9:34 pm
Looks super enticing. Love it and thank you for sharing a great scrub.

- - serotonin said
  - 30 May 2019
    11:43 am
Nice, great way to use some lemons off my tree!

- - mom343701 said
  - 30 Apr 2019
    6:56 pm
a lovely thing to do for mothers day…wonderful thanks we will get some made!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 11 Mar 2019
    10:01 am
Great idea for all the green thumbs in your life!

- - kjgarner said
  - 29 Jun 2018
    11:52 am
That is a great idea for dirty hands

- - Carly said
  - 28 May 2018
    1:32 pm
this will be perfect for my mother in law!!!

- - natct said
  - 31 Aug 2017
    5:59 am
sounds good enough to eat. This would take the glove smell off my hands too. Tropical heat and gloves mean sweat and smell and that is hard to get off but this might work well thankyou.

- - deannepritchard said
  - 03 Aug 2017
    7:56 pm
What a cheap, effective gift! i think i will use this even for myself as im trying to be more of a green thumb!

- - mom81879 said
  - 16 Apr 2017
    8:15 am
What a great idea! I have dirty gardening hands even after washing them. Now I can have a scrub test not only works but smell great too

- - mom105503 said
  - 08 Mar 2017
    12:14 am
This sounds like a great idea, for Mum and Dad who love gardening. It gets tricky when they don’t really need things.
- kjgarner replied
  
  30 Jun 2018 , 8:18 pm
  That would be a great present to give them