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Here's a natural pumpkin spice sugar scrub recipe that I just know you're going to love! You can have your favorite fall scents in your beauty products, too, and also have a natural, safe recipe. This recipe uses coconut oil, sugar, and essential oils like clove, nutmeg, orange, and cinnamon.

Natural Pumpkin Spice Sugar Scrub Recipe using Coconut Oil, Sugar, and essential oils like Clove, Nutmeg, Orange and Clove

How do Sugar Scrubs Work?

Don’t you just love having little luxuries in the bathroom? Especially ones that smell amazing, are good for you, are all-natural, and don’t break the bank? Well, this one covers all of that. Oh yeah, baby. You can use this to:

Exfoliate
Moisturize
Cleanse
Soften Rough Skin (like knees, heels, and elbows)
Remove makeup and dirt

It can also be a great way to wash your hands and body, especially during the winter months when the skin gets very dry and cracked. You can incorporate ingredients that actually heal and protect your skin, too, like Vitamin E oil!

What’s Special About Coconut Oil?

Coconut oil has its own healing qualities due to the lauric acid it contains. Lauric acid is a medium-chain saturated fatty acids (MCFA) that are converted in the body into a compound called monolaurin, an antiviral and antibacterial that destroys a wide variety of disease-causing organisms. So, coconut oil does more than other carrier oils by killing germs while at the same time, drawing them out of the body.

Which Essential Oils to Use in this Pumpkin Spice Sugar Scrub Recipe?

Essential oils make everything amazing, really! But seriously, they do. I chose to use Citrus Fresh in this pumpkin spice sugar scrub recipe because it has such an uplifting scent, and it also really helps to fight germs. I used to buy whatever essential oils I could get my hands on but quickly learned that they didn’t work and were not organic and adulterated. I fell in love with EO’s once I discovered Young Living and haven’t looked back since!

Pumpkin Spice Sugar Scrub Recipe using Coconut Oil, sugar, essential oils like Clove, Cinnamon, Orange and Nutmeg.

Oily/Acne Prone Skin

For those with oily and acne-prone skin, I suggest using one or more of the following:

Citrus Fresh (blend of orange, tangerine, lemon, mandarin, grapefruit, and spearmint)
Lemon
Orange
Tangerine
Geranium
Peppermint
Melrose (blend of melaleuca, melaleuca alternifolia, rosemary, and clove)
Rosemary
Tea Tree

NOTE – All citrus oils are photosensitive and can cause your skin to burn if exposed to the sun within 12-24 hours.

Also, coconut oil can be comedogenic for acne-prone skin. You might want to switch it out for a different carrier oil, however, the recipe won't be solid at room temperature or cooler if you do.

Dry, Cracked Skin

If you have dry skin or are using this in the wintertime, I suggest using one or more of the following:

Aging Skin and Wrinkles

For those who are starting to see wrinkles, I suggest using one or more of the following in this pumpkin spice sugar scrub recipe: