Well did you really think I wasn't going to experiment with homemade shampoo and deodorant just because I said I wasn't in my last post. Well you don't know me very well if you believed that. After researching all that stuff, even though I was kind of hesitant about it, I just couldn't leave it alone. I had to try it out. First I tried a thing that sounded wonderful--a dry shampoo. I hate washing my hair with water right now because it goes absolutely insane and is completely unmanageable for several days after I wash it. If I could somehow wash my hair without water that would be great because I could keep it straight and under control like I want. So experiment number one was under way. The recipe simply said 1/2 a cup of cornstarch. You were supposed to sprinkle the cornstarch in your hair let it sit for a few minutes and then comb it out. I thought 1/2 a cup sound like a lot so I decided to be conservative and use a 1/3. I went to the bathroom and proceeded to rub a 1/3 cup cornstarch through my hair. When I got done I stood up to let it sit as directed and discovered that I was completely gray. The picture gives you a bit of an idea but my hair was seriously the hair of a 60 year old!! I combed and combed and combed but when I went to bed my hair definitely still had a grey sheen and I was afraid to wash it because we all know cornstarch and water make a paste and if there was something worse I could think of than grey hair it was glue hair. May hair is back to it's normal color now and I did not wash it. It has tons of body (maybe from all the combing?) and looks very clean. I decided that the recipe must have just been giving an amount to set aside for multiple uses? I will have to ask my friend who uses dry shampoo and has gorgeous hair. Anyhow, if I use less next time I think I will actually really like this method of cleaning my hair.
On to experiment two. I couldn't get the idea of trying homemade deodorant out of my head. I felt like it wouldn't be a very good product but I was so curious about what it would look like, how you would put it on, etc. that I had to make some. So I got the ingredients that I didn't already have (c0conut oil) and proceeded to make the mixture. To my surprise I love this stuff. It doesn't smell like anything and I don't smell like anything when I put it on and it works all day if you shower every day. Of course I haven't yet had the opportunity of testing how it works in 100 + Dallas heat and humidity but for now it is good. I was wearing men's deodorant because I felt like the women's deodorants were all too wimpy and not getting the job done and I have to say that I would vote for the homemade stuff over what I was using. It is a little messy to put on but I like it so I'll give it a go for a while.
Now that you are all thinking I'm a big, crazy wierdo for trying this stuff I will also reveal my terrible mothering skills. This is Maddy playing dress up yesterday. She was so cute with this clip in her hair.
Okay, on to the story of how we nearly had to visit the emergency room today. So I called David's Bridal to see if my dress for Ethan and Jenna's wedding was in because I hadn't heard from them. Sure enough it was there but no one had called me telling me that so I decided to run up there and get the dress. Dress was great, perfect fit, etc. I came home and set Maddy in the very center of the bed as indicated with the X below. She has always been perfectly fine and safe and not really able to move very far from the middle of the bed. I stepped into the closet for maybe 20 seconds to grab the shoes I'd bought earlier to see if they matched the dress. When I came back out, Maddy had somehow worked her way along the dotted path marked on the bed and was sliding off head first right by the nightstand. I started rushing toward her knowing I was not going to make it in time to catch her just praying that she wouldn't hit her head on the nightstand. Well God was definitely protecting her because she slid off in the tiny little space between the bed and nightstand and landed on her head and then flipped the rest of her body over in such a way that she never hit the nightstand at all. She cried of course but only for about a minute and I avoided going into cardiac arrest but it scared the crap out of me. All I could do was thank God over and over she was okay. She came so close to cracking her head open on the corner of the nightstand. I didn't realize that she was getting so mobile and able to cover so much territory in so little time. That is a praise God right there but not when she tries to kill herself by diving off the bed. So lesson learned about that for sure.
Time to cut off the ramblings. In honor of Earth Day take some time to enjoy God's creation this weekend. If you live close to a national park, admission is free now through Sunday. I am so sad that I'm not close enough to take advantage of this.
On to experiment two. I couldn't get the idea of trying homemade deodorant out of my head. I felt like it wouldn't be a very good product but I was so curious about what it would look like, how you would put it on, etc. that I had to make some. So I got the ingredients that I didn't already have (c0conut oil) and proceeded to make the mixture. To my surprise I love this stuff. It doesn't smell like anything and I don't smell like anything when I put it on and it works all day if you shower every day. Of course I haven't yet had the opportunity of testing how it works in 100 + Dallas heat and humidity but for now it is good. I was wearing men's deodorant because I felt like the women's deodorants were all too wimpy and not getting the job done and I have to say that I would vote for the homemade stuff over what I was using. It is a little messy to put on but I like it so I'll give it a go for a while.
Now that you are all thinking I'm a big, crazy wierdo for trying this stuff I will also reveal my terrible mothering skills. This is Maddy playing dress up yesterday. She was so cute with this clip in her hair.
Okay, on to the story of how we nearly had to visit the emergency room today. So I called David's Bridal to see if my dress for Ethan and Jenna's wedding was in because I hadn't heard from them. Sure enough it was there but no one had called me telling me that so I decided to run up there and get the dress. Dress was great, perfect fit, etc. I came home and set Maddy in the very center of the bed as indicated with the X below. She has always been perfectly fine and safe and not really able to move very far from the middle of the bed. I stepped into the closet for maybe 20 seconds to grab the shoes I'd bought earlier to see if they matched the dress. When I came back out, Maddy had somehow worked her way along the dotted path marked on the bed and was sliding off head first right by the nightstand. I started rushing toward her knowing I was not going to make it in time to catch her just praying that she wouldn't hit her head on the nightstand. Well God was definitely protecting her because she slid off in the tiny little space between the bed and nightstand and landed on her head and then flipped the rest of her body over in such a way that she never hit the nightstand at all. She cried of course but only for about a minute and I avoided going into cardiac arrest but it scared the crap out of me. All I could do was thank God over and over she was okay. She came so close to cracking her head open on the corner of the nightstand. I didn't realize that she was getting so mobile and able to cover so much territory in so little time. That is a praise God right there but not when she tries to kill herself by diving off the bed. So lesson learned about that for sure.
Time to cut off the ramblings. In honor of Earth Day take some time to enjoy God's creation this weekend. If you live close to a national park, admission is free now through Sunday. I am so sad that I'm not close enough to take advantage of this.
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