Shower...I mean bake...I mean shower

Who knew you could literally shower with all the ingredients coming straight from your kitchen. I'm on a kick recently of being more....simple. I don't want to call it organic per say, because if I could buy something at the store that I could actually read the ingredients, I would do that. Why is it that even the organic things always contain ingredients that I have no idea what they are? Normally I don't even think about it, but it all started about two months ago with my face.

I've never had great skin. Never. Every year I ask God why I am in my mid twenties and still have acne like I'm 16. There are worse things in life, but it has always bugged me. My coworker was telling me about washing her face with oil one day and how that has helped her face not to break out. Obviously, my first reaction was no way, I'm not putting OIL on my face! (another oxymoron in life -- why is it that when you say no way, those are exactly the things you end up trying?) I'm not going to go into detail about the face wash, I'll save that for another post, but it turns out that I LOVE washing my face with oil! It has done wonders for my skin, and I can't help but hope that it'll help keep the wrinkles that are starting to crease my face in check.

Naturally, finding a household product that has helped my face so much only led me to wonder what other miracles were hiding in my kitchen. I started thinking about my hair....my poor hair. Damaged from years of color and curling, and yet my favorite article of clothing every day. I googled "homemade shampoo" just to see what would come up. There were a couple of recipes that included a castille soap. When I asked the woman at the co-op what she thought of that soap, she said she had tried it and didn't recommend it! Plus, if you're buying a soap to put into your homemade shampoo, it just doesn't seem that homemade anymore, does it?

So I went with a very simple recipe. Cheap and simple. I tried this one off of onegoodthingbyjillee.com:

 ...and of course I then had to try the conditioner as well. I was going for the whole experience here....

When I made the concoction, it didn't look quite as nice as the pictures. More like some whitish water in one bowl and some yellowish water in another bowl. I really should have thought about how this was going to go down, because I realized when I was in the shower that pouring a bowl of tap temperature water over your head when the rest of your body is under hot water feels like an ICE BOX! 

I didn't feel anything spectacular in my hair. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't wonderful. I think more than anything I learned two things: baking soda and water doesn't taste good, and apple cider vinegar and water stings your eyes. Literally, after washing my hair with baking soda and apple cider vinegar, and washing my face with oil, you could have stuck me in an oven at 350 for 30 minutes and I would have been pretty tasty! 

I think for now I'll stick to my Herbal Essences...

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