Sundays are a good day for pampering, and if you’re in the States and have the luxury of tomorrow off for American Labor Day, all the better!

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Cornmeal
• Honey
• A warm shower
• A half hour to an hour

Optional:

• Music (something calm or spa-like would be perfect)
• Candles
• Essential oils or a room spray that you like
• A warm, fluffy robe
• Slippers or warm socks

Start your shower and let the warm steam fill the bathroom. Start your music and candles, and spritz your room spray. If you have essential oils, you can drop 5 or 10 drops in the back of the shower to create an aromatherapy shower for yourself.

Set the cornmeal on the edge of the tub or somewhere outside the shower where you can get at it. Also get the honey and set it close by.

Instructions:

• Put about a teaspoon’s worth of cornmeal in your hand and add enough honey to make a paste.
• Start at your feet and rub in a circular motion. Pay particular attention to your heels.
• Then, moving up the calves, continuing in a circular motion, massage the skin.
• When you’re done with your thighs, rinse your skin.
• Then starting with your hands, move up your arms toward your shoulders. Pay attention to your elbows.
• Rub circular motions along your stomach – in a counter-clockwise direction around to the left.
• Get what you can reach of your back – or, have a friend help. 🙂
• If you have long hair like I do, the thick goop will make a mess in your hair so you may want to put your hair up for this or just keep it out of the way as you’re working.
• When you’re done, wash your body and make sure you get all the cornmeal off.
• When you get out, use a light moisturizer and then wrap up in a warm robe with slippers and rest.

If you try it, I’d love to know how it goes for you! Please share with me in the comments.