Posted in Skin Care, tagged green tea, kitchen beauty, Skin Care, summer, toner on August 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
It’s 99 degrees right now in East Texas. Every time I open the door even a crack, scalding air comes pouring in. When things get a little warm in the house, I like to mist my face, hands and feet with Evian’s Brumisateur. OK, yes, this is basically a really expensive water sprayer. But the super-fine mist doesn’t make me feel soggy, just refreshed.
Here’s another refreshing tip for summer, from SmartSkinCare.com: (more…)
Posted in Hair, tagged ACV, baking soda, burt's bees, green tea, Hair, lavender, no poo, oils, soap on August 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
WEEK 2: No ‘poo experiment
Day 1 (Sunday): Wash with A Wild Soapbar Cedarwood soap. Ingredients: Ingredients: saponified cold pressed olive, coconut, organic palm, & castor oils, distilled water, essential oils (fir needle, cedarwood, bay, orange), moroccan red clay, calcium bentonite clay, organic paprika, sea salt, wild cedar wood. Rinse with ACV. Lavender spritz. Hair looks OK. Soft, but curls are a little frizzy.
Day 2 (Monday): Water-only. Lavender spritz, a drop of jojoba oil. Hair looks OK, not great.
Day 3 (Tuesday): Water-only. Aloe 80 spray, lavender spritz. Hair looks OK, not great. Feels crunchy, dry.
Day 4 (Wednesday): Water-only. Curls on top layer look all right. Underneath layer is stringy, oily.
Day 5 (Thursday): Rinse with Pomegranate Goji Berry Green Tea. Eh. Still just “coated”, waxy.
Day 6 (Friday): I break down and use my Burt’s Bees Super Shiny Grapefruit & Sugar Beet shampoo (No sulfates, 98.8% natural, they claim). Spritz with lavender. Hair feels quite nice. Really tight curls.
Day 7 (Saturday): No wash. Wet hair in sink. Use Kiss My Face styling mousse. Hair looks pretty good, bouncy.
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