Recipe:
1/2 cup uncooked oats (for finer scrub you can blend into powder)
1 tbs.honey(if you use ground up oats you may want to adjust honey)

Mix ingredients together to form a paste. Massage into face and neck. Let scrub sit on skin for 10-15 minutes before rinsing.

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I tried this particular scrub when I found it on Natural Living For Women.  The description said that is was great for sensitive skin.  "I have sensitive skin," I thought.  "This will work well for me."  Not so much.

I tried this both ways - with whole oats and with ground oats....and both ways felt like I was trying to rub syrup peppered with rocks all over my face.  The "paste" was hard to spread at all, so "massaging" it into my face and neck was just out of the question.  After trying to massage it into my face and feeling like I was actually massaging my face off, I gave up on that and just spread the paste onto my face as well as I could.

The honey managed to stick to everything (my face, my hair, my fingers) - except for the oats.  If you are going to try this recipe, do so over the kitchen sink.  When I was finished, my sink was filled with oatmeal chunks and those tiny little hairs at my hairline were either stuck to my face or ripped out of my head and stuck on my fingers.

If you have ever had syrup poured on you - as I have - you know that sticky is not a fun feeling.  That's what you get for the next 10 to 15 minutes, though.  Oh, and you get to pick up the oats that fall off of your face and onto your floor.  Lucky for me, I have pet rats that can eat my "droppings" when I let them our of their cage for fun time.

This scrub did have two things going for it, though.  1) If it should happen to get into your mouth, it tastes delicious. 2) It washes off (and out of your hair) very easily.

I was actually pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to take this scrub off.  I do, however, recommend rinsing it off at the kitchen sink.  You're going to want to be able to use that disposal to take care of those oats.

I found that the recipe actually makes much more than I actually needed for my face - unless I just wasn't putting it on thick enough.  (Thickness is difficult since trying to put more oats over present oats resulted in crumbling and dropping oats.)  Other places that I've looked suggest 3 tablespoons oats and 2 tablespoons honey if you want to try this on a smaller scale.

Once I'd washed this off, my face was pretty red and really uncomfortable.  I put lotion on immediately, but it was over 20 minutes before all of the itchiness and slight soreness was gone.  The following day, I noticed a few red splotches on my face, but chalked it up to post-facial trauma.  Two days later, however, I noticed rough, dry patches on my cheekbones, jawline and temples.  This is despite daily moisturizing, I might add.

Maybe this will work better for someone else, but I can't say that I was impressed by it.  Or maybe I just used the wrong kind of honey.

I give this scrub 2 out of 5 Oats.  (It really was tasty!)