Annie the Crafty Cooker

Homemade scrubs turn rough elbows and scaly knees into silk overnight-they dig out dead flakes without sanding you raw, while oils like tallow seal in that fresh glow. Arms smooth out, legs tan even, face lights up like you’ve slept sixteen hours. Ten seconds swirling, ten weeks smoother.

Beauty Scrub for arms and legs

Put two tablespoons each castor and grapeseed oil in the TM7, plus one tablespoon tallow. Warm it, reverse, speed three, eighty Celsius for four minutes till it’s silky. Kill heat, add twelve drops carrot oil – that’s your glow bomb – then fold in quarter-cup fine sugar for bite. Scoop warm onto forearms, scrub in circles, rinse; arms look tanned already.

Pure perfection Feet Scrub

For the TM7: toss half a cup shea butter, two tablespoons each jojoba, sweet almond, castor and grapeseed into the bowl. Reverse, speed three, one minute at sixty Celsius-just till it turns creamy gold. Scrape down, whizz again fifteen seconds. Scoop warm into pots; it’ll firm up overnight. Grainy? Stir in sugar before the second blitz. Feet will purr.

Elbow Scrub

Drop quarter cup tallow and two tablespoons rosehip oil into the TM7, speed two at eighty degrees till it’s liquid-about four minutes. Add three tablespoons Dead Sea salt-coarse, the real gritty kind-and twenty drops carrot seed oil. Reverse, speed two for fifteen seconds, just so crystals hang. Spoon into ramekins; it’ll set firm, then rub over elbows like a spa in Gaza.

Knee Scrub

Chuck two tablespoons salt in dry bowl. Melt sixty grams tallow with three tablespoons grapeseed oil: ninety degrees, speed one, reverse, five minutes. Pour in while still hot, pulse three times till salt stays chunky. Smells clean, grinds great on knees.

Arm Scrub

Put two tablespoons each castor and grapeseed oil in the TM7, plus one tablespoon tallow. Warm it, reverse, speed three, eighty Celsius for four minutes till it’s silky. Kill heat, add twelve drops carrot oil – that’s your glow bomb – then fold in quarter-cup fine sugar for bite. Scoop warm onto forearms, scrub in circles, rinse; arms look tanned already.

Face Scrub

Quarter cup tallow, one tablespoon jojoba, ten drops rosehip oil-reverse, speed two, sixty degrees, two minutes in the TM7. Scrape walls, blitz twenty seconds, then tip in two teaspoons superfine sugar. Press go once more, just to coat. Cold rinse in the shower, it’ll leave your cheeks humming.

There-there, don’t over-scrub; once a week and your arms, legs and knees will keep thanking you for years. Tallow’s the hero-cheap, boring fridge fat that suddenly makes you glow like a celebrity with a spa bill.