Honey Shampoo Directions
Basic Honey Shampoo Ingredients^^
Other Supplies:
- Glass jar with a lid
- A strainer, or tea infuser (metal preferably)
- A clean pot to boil the water in.
- Measuring cup
- A timer (I used the one on my microwave)
- A bottle for your finished product :)
Note: the herbs I use are for dry hair, oily scalp, and shine.. but you can sub in any that you like. I used post on ehow.com as a guide (scroll to the bottom of the post page for the herb suggestions).
Robin McKinley & Honey Shampoo
Sometime recently I decided that I was sick of my scalp breaking out, the top of my hair being oily, and my ends so dry I could use it for kindling. I’m a GIRL. I want my hair to be shiny, soft, smooth, touchable, and have it not make my skin break out or just be the end result of layers and layers of GUNK!
Now, I’m basically allergic to anything created by humans… so All-Natural-Organic-Earthy-Crunchy stuffs are usually the only things that don’t do something evil to my human shell.
I got really inspired from reading “Chalice”, by Robin McKinley (one of my most favorite authors of all time). The main character in the book was a bee-keeper suddenly chosen to basically be the High Priestess of the religion/government that runs her part of the land. But the part that really stuck with me was that fact that she had a kind of honey for EVERYTHING. She had honey for headaches, tummy aches, honey to make you feel content, honey to help you sleep, honey to use on cuts and bruises… the list was practically endless. But as well as cultivating honey, she also MADE tons of things WITH the honey. Candles, soaps, salves, mead, and bunches of other fun things.
Now, you have to understand, I’m a honey fanatic. I have at least a spoonful of it everyday.. and I’m the weirdo at IHOP that steals the little packaged honey cups and keeps them in her purse to enjoy them at a later date in movie theaters.. or for random sore throats. So after reading this book.. the idea of making things with honey was just churning in my brain. On that particular day, my scalp was probably itching worse than I can remember… and I just kept coming back to the honey. So I gave in….. I googled it.
Honey shampoo, honey face wash, honey body wash, honey body scrub….
And the results of the recipes I found and mixed and matched were phenomenal! Now my best friend refuses to use anything else! :p
I’m still experimenting (working on a strawberry/vanilla honey scrub for my sister), and plan on seeing if I can sell my honey bath products.. but I wanted to share my basic recipes for anyone that might be interested.
So see my next post for my recipes with instructional pictures, suggestions, links, notes, and fun extras. :)
(Had to re-post this, as I love all the videos of the painting elephants. Thought it was rather interesting that their personal color pallets and brush-stroke styles are different almost by region and sometimes by sub-species… and that they have SCHOOLS?! This makes me endlessly happy.)
During the learning stage, the mahouts generally select the colors and determine when a painting is finished. They teach the elephants how to hold the brush, and a number of mahouts have also customized their paintbrushes, adding bamboo handles that are easier for the elephants to grip.
Elephant painting of the northern, or Lampang school tends to be lyrical and expressive, characterized by broken brushwork, curvilinear forms, and bold, clear, primary colors. In the central Thai, or Ayutthaya school, elephants and mahouts prefer darker, cooler colors such as deep violet, black, and forest green, which they apply with broad, vigorous brushstrokes that sweep across the canvas from edge to edge. Elephants of the southern, or Phuket school tend toward saturated tertiary colors like mustard, plum, and magenta, mixed on the surface of the paper with broad, gentle, curvy brushstrokes.This is quite amazing.
*Love*
Found the link for this posted in the debate between the group “Tell Her She’s Beautiful” (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=271200817740&ref=nf)
and an individual’s reply ” RE: Tell her that she’s beautiful. Why this idea is completely wrong and condescending.”(http://www.facebook.com/notes/ryan-wyatt-hirrlinger/re-tell-her-that-shes-beautiful-why-this-idea-is-completely-wrong-and-condescend/280984167513)
Both the group creator and the replying individual are male.. and while both make valid points in their arguments.. I prefer nakedpeople’s perspective the best.
i just saw another picture of some cute chunky young white woman’s belly with “to every girl with insecurities… you’re beautiful” written on it in black marker.
i don’t like to be a downer, but those pictures really bother me. i mean, i know in middle and high school my worst insecurities were never “oh, no, i’m a cute chunky young white woman.” i mean, i guess i was. but i know that the whole “insecurities” thing is meant to specifically address fatness, and i never ever felt like fatness was the worst of my problems. i thought my acne was turning my face into an untouchable mountain range. i thought the bags under my eyes were like ghastly fucking chasms leading to mordor. i thought i was as hairy as a monkey. most of all, i thought because i was queer, nobody would ever want to hear the story of my life. i didn’t have time to worry about striking a silhouette.
what i mean is:
my own personal experience has been that the single most self-esteem-increasing thing you can do for yourself is to give yourself permission to be ugly. we should teach girls that they can look like hell and still be worthy of love - worthy of writing novels, having great sex, running the business, whatever amazing thing they can do while still not being a symmetrical tan white skinny bikini beach babe.
ugly people are great. ugly people are iconoclasts. ugly people do their thing and are not beautiful and do not apologize for it. frida kahlo made a life out of painting her disability & chronic pain, her depression, and her moustache & unibrow. these things are good and human. if we chalk over them and pretend that we are beautiful, when culturally defined beauty is a privileged commodity, we are erasing our strengths.
First post.
Just finished the main graphics for this tumblr theme. Still need some tweaking and link reassigning and such and then I’ll be all finished! Only took a day of photoshopping, googling, photobucketing, and digging through code. @-@
Will post something less lame later.
