Pour Some Sugar On Me!

I've been scouring the reviews over at Makeup Alley, for a freelance job I'm doing on beauty products.  It so happens that my editor assigned me to research and write about exfoliating body and face scrubs, which is like, for me, the Top Thing Ever.

So while comparing $68 tubs of brown sugar scrub, I came across this review, which was labeled as "Sugar" which was an "Unlisted Brand."  Hmmm.

Turns out the beauty addicts over at MUA aren't above Macgyvering up their own products in the kitchen in the pursuit of softer/clearer/whatever skin.   The reviewers explain how using raw sugar can be a great exfoliator and discuss the benefits of adding grapeseed, almond oil, honey or even essential oil fragrance.  A veritable gold mine of kitchen experimentation. 

But First Principles, people.  The simplest explanation is best so I decided to start by opening a sack of C & H and stashing a bit in my shower.  I took an empty glass tub of exfoliator that I bought on clearance at Target.

(Long Rambling Aside:  Isn't this always the way?  You get to liking some Target product, and bam!  It's discontinued.  Grrr...)

I've been using it on one side of my body, while the other side is getting the lavish treatment from a chi-chi brand that shall remain nameless which I bought from my local hippie co-op.  In case you're not able to detect one side of my body glowing exuberantly through my blog, I'll report back on the results in a week. 

(Last Rambling Bit:  Oh, and of course, I''m now reviewing products at MUA.  If it involves listing and cataloging the minutiae of my own life for no productive reason, well, then it clearly must go to the top of the priority heap.)