2021 MLK COMMUNITY CELEBRATION: SELF CARE COMMITTEE
SELF CARE FROM
HEAD TO TOE
12 Recipes to help care for your body
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is
self-preservation, and that is an act of political
warfare"
-Audre Lorde
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2021 MLK COMMUNITY CELEBRATION: SELF CARE COMMITTEE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Homemade Hydrating Hair Mask 3
Hydrating Avocado Mask* 4
Brown Sugar Facial Scrub 5
Brown Sugar Lip Scrub* 6
Gingerbread Lip Scrub 7
Body Butter* 8
Oatmeal Honey Body Scrub 9
Homemade Moisturizing Beauty Mash* 10
Lemon Hand Scrub 11
Coffee Ground Foot Scrub 12
Brown Sugar And Olive Oil Exfoliating Foot Scrub* 13
DIY Foaming Hand Sanitizer Recipe (No alcohol)* 14
*RECIPES ARE DEMONSTRATED IN THE VIDEO
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HOMEMADE HYDRATING
Ingredients:
HAIR MASK Coconut Oil, 2
By: Ancestral Nutrition Tablespoon
Servings: 1 mask Olive Oil, 2
Tablespoon
Instructions:
Optional:
1. Combine essential oils in a small bowl. Lavender Essential
2. Smush (technical term) together until Oil, 4 drops
combined.
3. Apply to the middle to ends of hair, I like
to use a brush to comb through and coat
each strand of hair.
4. Wash your homemade hair mask out in
the AM.
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HYDRATING AVOCADO
Ingredients:
MASK 1 Ripe Avocado
By: Beautiful Eats & Things Plain Yogurt, 1/3
Servings: 1 mask cup
Honey, 2
Instructions:
Teaspoons
1. Add all ingredients to a blender, and Lemon Juice, 1
blend until smooth. Tablespoon
2. Wash face with a cleanser, dry and then Optional: Rolled
apply mask liberally to face and neck. Oats, 2
3. Let sit on face for 20 minutes. Tablespoon
4. Wash mask off face and follow-up with
your typical skincare routine.
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BROWN SUGAR FACIAL
Ingredients:
SCRUB Raw Honey, 1
By: Kitchen Mccabe Tablespoon
Servings: 1 mask Brown Sugar, 1
Tablespoon
Instructions:
1. Place the brown sugar and honey in a
small bowl and mix together well. Store
in a jar with an air tight lid.
2. Keep at room temperature.
3. TO USE: Wash face well. Apply a small
amount of scrub(about ½ t.) to wet skin
and massage gently in a circular motion.
Avoid eye area. Rinse face well and pat
dry.
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BROWN SUGAR LIP
Ingredients:
SCRUB Granulated Sugar,
By: Pinned and Repinned 1 Tablespoon
Servings: 3 jars Brown Sugar, 2
Tablespoons
Instructions:
Coconut oil, 1
1. Mix sugars, coconut oil, and honey in a Teaspoon
bowl. Add vanilla. Stir well. Honey, 1/2
2. Add lip scrub mix to jars. This batch Teaspoon
yields 3 jars. Vanilla, 1/4
3. Apply generously and rub onto lips Teaspoon
Jars to put lip
scrub in.
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GINGERBREAD LIP
Ingredients:
SCRUB Finely ground
By:alifeadjacent brown sugar, 2
Tablespoons
Instructions:
Fractionated
1. Add the sugar and spices (if included) to
Coconut Oil or
a small mixing bowl.
MCT Oil, 1
2. Next, add the fractionated coconut oil or
Tablespoon
liquid carrier oil of your choice.
Raw Honey, 1
3. Add your essential oils (and stevia, if
Teaspoon
desired) and mix well to incorporate.
Cinnamon, 1/2
4. Carefully transfer to small glass
Tablespoon
containers.
Vanilla Extract or
5. To use your lip scrub, massage gently
Vanilla Oleoresin,
onto lips and then rinse with warm
3 Drops
water.
Optional:
6. Pat dry and follow up with a
Gingerbread
moisturizing lip balm. You can also use a
Liquid Stevia or
lip mask for even more hydration.
Gingerbread
Essential Oil
Blend, 2 Drops
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BODY BUTTER
Ingredients:
By: Natural fit foodie (Modified)
Unrefined Shea
Servings: 3 jars
Butter, 4
Instructions: Tablespoons
Solid Coconut Oil,
1. Melt shea butter and coconut oil in a double
boiler. Mine took about 10 minutes. 4 Tablespoons
2. Mix in olive oil.Add flour if using (again this
Olive Oil, 2
ingredient is optional).
3. Place bowl in the freezer (or fridge) to set. You Tablespoons
want the body butter to cool as quickly as
Optional: Flour, 1
possible to avoid it going grainy later on.
Twenty minutes (twenty-five minutes in the Tablespoon
fridge) should suffice. Optional: Essential
4. Cover the bowl to avoid any condensation
Oil, 3-4 Drops
dripping in. Check that your body butter is
semi-solid. Poke it with your finger, it should
easily make a dent. If it does remove the bowl
from the freezer (or fridge), if not leave it to
harden a bit more.
5. Beat mixture with electric beaters until the
butter looks like buttercream frosting (takes
about 4 minutes)
6. Transfer the butter to a glass or metal container
with a tight-fitting lid
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OATMEAL HONEY BODY
Ingredients:
SCRUB Unrefined Shea
By: Leggings N Lattes Butter, 4
Instructions: Tablespoons
Solid Coconut Oil,
1. Put 1/2 cup oats into food processor and
4 Tablespoons
blend for 1 minute. Add to your mixing
Olive Oil, 2
bowl.
Tablespoons
2. Add 3/4 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup
Optional: Flour, 1
granulated sugar into bowl.
Tablespoon
3. Add 2 tablespoons honey to bowl.
Optional:
4. Now add 1/4 cup olive oil and mix all
Essential Oil, 3-4
ingredients together with the spatula.
Drops
5. Look at your mixture, if too dry you will
want to add more olive oil. Maybe 1/4
cup more or until it is at the consistency
you like it.
6. Put scrub into a sealable container. Use
once a week for glowing, beautiful skin.
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HOMEMADE
Ingredients:
MOISTURIZING BEAUTY Coconut oil, 3
MASH Tablespoon
By:One Good Thing Olive oil, 1
Instructions: Tablespoon
1. Add coconut oil and olive oil to a small Optional:
bowl, then “mash” together with the Lavender Essential
back of a spoon or fork. Continue mixing Oil, 4-5 Drops
until it achieves a nice, smooth
consistency.
2. If you’d like, you can also stir in a few
drops of lavender essential oil for added
benefits.
3. Transfer the oil mixture to an airtight
container. Store in the refrigerator if you
prefer a firmer texture, or at room
temperature for a softer, more
spreadable texture.
How it works:
Lavender has soothing and anti-
inflammatory effects, so it’s great for
treating almost any kind of skin
condition.
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LEMON HAND SCRUB
Ingredients:
Granulated Sugar,
Instructions:
1 1/2 cup
1. In a medium bowl, add all ingredients
Salt, 2
(including food coloring if you opted for)
Tablespoons
and gently mix with a spatula to fully
Coconut oil, 3/4
combine.
Cup Melted
2. Transfer the mix to air tight containers
Lemon Zest,
or small jars with lids.
Preferably Dried, 1
3. Store in a cool, dry room.
Tablespoon
4. Scrub over dry or dirty or smelly hands
Lemon Juice, 1
then rinse thoroughly then pat dry with
Tablespoon
a towel. Your hands will feel clean, soft
Lavender Essential
and revitalized after use and will smell
Oil, 5 Drops
amazing!
Lemon Essential
Oil, 5 Drops
Optional: Dried
Lavender Buds,
1/4 Cup
Optional: Yellow
Food Coloring, 2-3
Drops
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COFFEE GROUND FOOT
Ingredients:
SCRUB Coffee Grounds, 2
Serving: 1 foot scrub Tablespoons
Sugar (coarse), 2
Instructions: Tablespoons
Coconut Oil, 1
1. Mix all the ingredients and prepare a
Tablespoon
thick paste.
2. Apply it all over your feet and massage
for 15-20 minutes.
3. Wash it off.
How it works:
This DIY homemade foot scrub
enhances the texture of the skin on
your feet. The coffee grounds are
excellent for scrubbing your feet and
removing dead skin cells. This
softens the feet.
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BROWN SUGAR AND
Ingredients:
OLIVE OIL EXFOLIATING Brown Sugar, 1
FOOT SCRUB Tablespoon
Olive Oil,1
Serving: 1 foot scrub
Tablespoon
Instructions: Essential Oil, 2
Drops (chamomile
1. Combine the sugar, olive oil, and baking
or peppermint)
soda in a bowl.
Baking Soda, 1
2. Add the essential oil and scrub your feet
Teaspoon
with the mixture.
3. Leave it on for at least 20 minutes and
then wash it off.
4. Follow up with a moisturizer.
How it works:
This is the simplest of all DIY foot
scrubs, but it does an amazing job of
keeping your feet happy and
moisturized. The sugar granules
gently scrub the skin, and the
essential oils comfort your feet.
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DIY FOAMING HAND
Ingredients:
SANITIZER RECIPE (NO Containers, 50 mL
ALCOHOL) Castile Soap, 1/2
By: Everdaywholesome.com Teaspoon
Serving: 1 50mL container Essential Oil (your
choice
Instructions:
Water
1. Open the 50 ml container.
2. Put 1/2 teaspoon of Castile soap.
3. Put 5 drops of Thieves Essential Oil & 5
drops of Peppermint Essential Oil. (Or
use another combination)
4. Fill the container slowly with water.
5. Leave room for foaming dispenser top.
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