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Week at the Sandy Spa


WEEK AT THE SANDY SPA ON COUSIN'S ISLAND 

DaVinci's Spa week is all about health beauty and science. We talk about healthy diets, exercise, products, and friendships. Here were some highlights of our week!






Spa Products

One of our big focuses at the sandy spa is that it is so important to know what you are putting on your body. Organic can be expensive and sometimes misleading. We made all sorts of spa products this week: 
  • Sugar Lip Scrub
  • Avocado Face Masks
  • Foot Scrub
  • Hand Sanitizer
  • Goat Soap
  • Bath-bombs





Almost every product we made contained ingredients that are most likely already in your pantry. And many of our products were edible.



Exercise

At the Sandy spa, a healthy life style is so important to us so we touched upon diet and exercise. Each day the girls would start their morning off with a different form of exercise. 

  • Thai Chi
  • Yoga
  • Dance
  • Boot Camp Work Out
  • Meditation

We would also walk down to the Sandy Point Beach which is a fantastic 1 mile walk. We made Guacamole and cucumber, lemon, mint infused water. We talk about what a healthy diet consists of and had a fabulous time eating our guacamole.






Mindfulness

The girls learned about the idea of chakras and the bodies natural energy flow. We learned about them through a chakra candle ceremony that involved crystals and essential oils. Afterwards the girls got to make their own incense and paint chakra rocks. 




Bonding Activities

At the spa we encourage positive female relationships and spent a whole day doing fun bonding activities together such as:

  • Painting nails
  • Braiding hair
  • Making friendship bracelets
  • Decorating flip flops
  • Reading Tarot Cards








Beach and Water Activities

If weather allowed and the girls were up for it, we would walk to the Sandy point beach after we finished all our days activities. The girls had so much fun swimming, picking raspberries, and playing with hermit crabs at the beach. On our last day we stayed at the community house and had water balloon fights for over an hour. This certainly was a lively bunch!



                                       




***Please note that if you see your child without a mask it was because they were socially distance, or they were doing physical activity and it was too hot outside for the mask to be safely worn***

All recipes for the spa products are listed below

Hand sanitizer
  • 2 parts rubbing alcohol 
  • 1 part aloe vera gel
  • Essential oil for cent
Brown Sugar Lip Scrip 

  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • A small spoonful of coconut, olive, and almond oil
  • A drizzle of honey 
  • A dash of cinnamon 

Foot Scrub

  • 1/2 cup Himalayan rock salt
  • 1/2 cup sea salt flakes
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil
  • A drizzle of honey and almond oil
  • Essential oils for cent

Avocado yogurt face mask
  • 1/2 Of an avocado 
  • A spoonful of plain organic yogurt (prefer greek)
  • Heaping drizzle of honey 

Bathbomb

  • 1/2 Cup baking soda
  • 1/4 Cup cornstarch
  • 1/4 Cup citric acid
  • 1/4 Cup epson salt 
  • 3 tsp Castor oil
  • 1 tbsp Water
  • 1 tbsp Essential oils
  • A few drops of food coloring 
Add dry ingredients first. Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl and add to dry ingredients very slowly as to not activate the citric acid and baking soda. 

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