If you miss feeling the sand between your toes in the winter, Andrea Moniz has just the cure for that.Mrs Moniz began making foot scrubs three months ago after being made redundant from her asset management job at Butterfield Bank.Her line of scrubs, called Moniz Made, are becoming increasingly popular at crafts markets and other sales venues.“I kept applying for jobs and getting nothing. I just had to have something to do,” she said of the inspiration for her start.After a friend invited her to a crafts exhibition at the Arts Centre in Dockyard she decided she might as well enter something in the show. She had made body scrub at home using brown sugar and olive oil and decided to enter that.“I confess I am a bit of an extra virgin olive oil nut,” she said. “I have used it in the shower. I use it on my face and hair. I have always been a believer in it.”She got some more ideas for recipes online, and got to work.Mrs Moniz describes making the scrubs as therapeutic, like baking but without out all the calories consumed at the end of the project.Now she offers several “flavours” that all have extra virgin olive oil as an ingredient, including Sweet Bee, a moisturiser that uses honey and vitamin E, Sugar and Spice, an exfoliator with honey and brown sugar, and Nutty Vanilla, a scrub that has walnut oil and vanilla, among other ingredients.“I have the view that if it is safe to eat it is good to put on your skin, but I say on the label that all skin is different. Try a little bit first on your skin to see how you react. They are good for about three months after opening.”Her husband Alex has been a guinea pig for her operation.“I used it to see if it made my skin better,” said Mr Moniz. “It does make it better. I feel new. It is not just for the ladies.”Mrs Moniz said the hardest thing about the venture was finding the materials.“It is hard to buy Bermuda,” she said. “The jars are particularly hard to find in Bermuda and expensive to ship in. I hate to admit it, but I have gone online and done the labels and business cards that way because bringing it in is still cheaper. The brown sugar and extra virgin olive oil I have been buying locally at discount warehouses in large quantities. The Bermuda honey is not easy to come by.”For the future, she is still job hunting. People have asked her if she would like to open a store, but that is not on the cards at the moment.“To me the scrubs are more of a front line for tourists,” she said.The scrubs are available at the Dockyard Arts Centre and Linens and Gifts in St George’s.They are also available at the City Market every Saturday from 8am until 12pm and will soon be available at Masterworks.For more information visit www.monizmade.com or Facebook under Moniz Made.Alternatively, e-mail Monizmade@gmail.com or Skype them on Moniz. Made. They can provide service in English and in Portuguese.