Sea mud body mask recipe

This Sea Mud Body Mask from Cranberry Lane will help detoxify your skin.

Instructions: (Makes One Body Treatment)
2 Tbsp Sea Mud Base, (Sea Kelp, Green Clay, Calcium Carbonate, Baking soda, Xanthan gum)
5-6 drops of Essential Oils
1 cup distilled or filtered water (heated)

Blending Mask:
Beat all ingredients together, using a whisk or hand blender, until mask begins to thicken into a paste. Add essential oils and or other optional ingredients see below, blend well. (If mask is not being used immediately, pour into a clean plastic bag, knot the end and refrigerate (3-4 days).) Place bag in boiling water until warm to use your mask. Shelf life for mask is 2 weeks refrigerated.

Optional ingredients:
Green Tea Extract: Excellent antioxidant properties. Add 20ml per treatment
Aloe vera gel: Excellent skin healing and soothing properties. Add 30ml per treatment

To use:
Hydra-Soak Mask: Most Convenient Method
1. Exfoliate skin, by dry brushing with a loofah, brush or towel, or use Sea Salt Scrub.
2. While standing in the tub, apply warm mask beginning with the feet and massaging upwards finishing with neck. Avoid contact with eyes.
3. Fill tub with warm water. Relax for approximately 10-20 minutes.
4. Rinse excess mask off in warm shower. Pat skin dry with towel. Apply body lotion or massage oil.

Intense Spa Mask: Apply to clean, dry skin
1. Exfoliate skin, by dry brushing with a loofah, brush or towel, or use Sea Salt Scrub.
2. Apply warm mask beginning with the feet and massaging upwards finishing with neck. Avoid contact with eyes.
3. Wrap body in large garbage bag, or thermal survival sheet to insulate body and activate mask ingredients.
4. Relax for approximately 10-20 minutes.
5. Rinse with warm water, pat skin dry with towel.
6. Apply body lotion or massage oil.

Mask tips:
Always apply to clean dry skin for maximum benefit
Make sure your room is warm.
Remember to hydrate your body, drink lots of water!

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Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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