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Keep a sugar body scrub batch clean and usable from the first scoop to the last: a completely dry jar, a dry spoon, the classic two-to-one sugar-and-oil mix, and the signs that end a batch. The full hygiene routine for a product you make with no preservative.
The episode washes the jar, dries it completely - one droplet of water can start microbial growth - then disinfects with seventy percent isopropyl alcohol. It builds the classic scrub, one cup of brown sugar to half a cup of virgin coconut oil, and adjusts the ratio for firmer or softer. It explains why a low-water product keeps microbes dormant rather than absent, where the jar lives (away from shower steam and sunlight, below seventy-five degrees), the dry-scoop rule every single time, and the smell, colour and texture changes that mean the jar is finished.
