It's a sick day here at the AccidentallyEco-compound - DJ is here, as well, and we're just rolling around the house being sick but thought I'd take this opportunity where we are doing absolutely nothing to post on some of the things I've been doing or re-doing.
Composting - started doing this activity again after about a 6-month hiatus. This time it's going a lot more smoothly as in, I'm not leaving compost containers in the carport to rot after I've left them to rot in the kitchen for too long. I'm actually dumping the kitchen clippings in a timely fashion and being a little more brave in throwing other woody/leafy matter in with it. I'm also over the whole stir-the-compost thing and just letting it layer, occasionally stirring if I have something especially stinky (like onion fragments) that I want to bury immediately. Still haven't made the second compost bin but I think I'm going to drill larger holes in this one so I don't have to drill so many - had in mind originally that I'd make DJ and Trooper (his best friend up the street) do the drilling - power tools and 9 year-old boys? What could go wrong?! But they were all like, 'meh,' so I'm going to do it myself, dang it.
Vinegar and Baking Soda Hairwashing - I've been pretty consistent with this since I restarted back up last summer with only a few instances where I used shampoo - tried a Body Shop brand of shampoo and conditioner that a friend gave me but it did not work for me, so back to bs&v.
And my head feels all fuzzy so that's all I got for now.
3 comments:
okay... tell me how you do the vinegar/baking soda hair thing?
It is so easy - see, you get yourself a couple of old dish soap bottles, and you fill one with 1:5 baking soda/water and the other with roughly the same ratio for cider vinegar - you'll have to play with proportions. The rule of thumb is to only use the baking soda on your scalp and only use the cider vinegar on your hair as a rinse; I just use it like regular shamps and conditioner whenever I shower (which is once every two days or so) but you can use it every day, I think.
Your hair will be all crazy for about a week or two while it gets used to the new regimen, but then it'll get all soft and nice feeling.
Here is the link to the original post about hair washing with baking soda and vinegar; it has a link to a New Zealand homesteading site where the author talks about making a paste with baking soda, rather than a rinse (which I think mine more resembles). But, again, it's just a matter or personal preferences. Hope this helps and let me know if you have any other questions! I love answering these questions!!!
Oh, and thank you for commenting!
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