Facial, part 1

Right now I'm sitting with an aching face. I have read about alot of facial masks and so on the past hour. So now I'm trying to do a baking soda+lemon juice mask. It's supposed to "drag out the pores", and I'm sure it does because my whole face stings. Apparently it can bleach the skin... sounds kind of dangerous.

Do like this:

Mix baking powder with an equal part lemon juice. The mix will start to bubble. Apply it on the face and let it be there util it dries. Wash the face with water.

Put honey afterwards to re-moisturise the face again. 

I used an home-delivery-leaflet to apply the mass with. It looked at bit too bubbly.

Result: I actually feel a bit smoother. However not as much difference as I expected. And it's super hard to moisturise the face with honey since it's so dry from the baking powder. I give it  3/5. 

28 days without chemicals

Soooo

The updates have been non-existing. But I've been experimenting and found the perfect combo for my hair.  I use  three easy, cheap and eco-friendly products:
Bicarbonate, Honey, Vinegar, Olive oil.
I'm still using the same things as I bought the first time, and none of them are running out yet.

So this is how I do it:
Shampoo= Honey blended with bicarbonate
Conditioner= Leave in vinegar with cold water as before
Shower gel= Soap and olive oil

Results? The hair gets so shiny and soft with the honey, it's also easier to divide  the bicarbonate in the hair  with the honey. A big plus is that the skin on my face has improved a lot. No more spots and pimples. 

Chocolate styling

Saturday, 21 April 2012

I don't have any internet in my apartment yet so these updates will come on one day.

Cocoa powder can be used as both dry shampoo and as volume powder. I washed the hair yesterday so i wanted to give it a quick fresh up before work. It worked well as a volume powder but not as well as dry shampoo. Why it didn't work as a dry shampoo was that the powder has a light brown colour that doesn’t work so well with my hair, so i didn't put it where it was visible. So I would not advice blonds to use it... maybe vanilla powder woks, who knows? And my hair wasn't greasy to start with so i had noting to compare to. But I'm going to give it a fair chance another day.
Anyhow, it worked quite well as a volume powder. I put it in like this:
Take cocoa powder on your fingertips and divide it part by part. Ruffle it up a bit.

There is one good/bad thing about this. Your hair will sell a lot like chocolate! Nobody comment it all day, but i smelled it all the time. Maybe I just got it in my nose? To 'even the smell out I put perfume in it, which just happened to be vanilla scent. So I walked around smelling like a bakery. And I actually grew to like it over the day.

Bicarbonate and vinegar, take one

Friday, 20 April 2012


Today was the day when i tried the bicarbonate of soda/apple cider vinegar method for the first time. And you know what? It worked!
My hair looks newly washed and it doesn't smell bad from the vinegar at all. I went easy on the olive oil as well, and it worked too!

I did like this:
1. Wet my hair and body.
2. Took a teaspoon of bicarbonate in one of my hands and put a little little bit of water there so it would be easier to divide ir in the hair. And the put the bicarbonate and water mix just in the top of my hair.
3. Massage the scalp so the mix would get even.
4. Rinse the hair.
5. Put a little bit of olive oil on my 'problem areas' where my skin gets very dry. Since the oil is so greasy i didn't dare to put more.
6. I cheated a bit, but i put soap in my armpits because it doesn't feel clean otherwise. I will have to study more on a replacement for that.
7.  Wash the whole Linet.
7. Filled a plastic box with cold water and about 10% apple cider vinegar.
8. Did a few very graceful tries to dip the hair in the box. I only dipped the length of my hair like I used to do with conditioner.
9. Left the vinegar and water in the hair and gave it a blow dry.

So what have I learned? Bicarbonate works, and next time I will put the vinegar mix in all of the hair to see if it gets softer.
And about the olive oil, I will try to put more of that as well next time.

Shopping day

Thursday, 19 April 2012


Today I went to the organic store to buy the ingredients! I got home with all types of food.

1.Bicarbonate= shampoo   /£ 1.49
2. Apple cider vinegar= conditioner   /£2.39
3. Porrige oat flakes= dry shampoo   /£1.29
4. Cocoa powder= dry shampoo+volume powder   /£2.19
5. Extra virgin olive oil= shower oil   /£4.69
6. Honey= need to study more on that but I have read that you can mix it with things and use for both hair and body. Stay tuned!   /£3.99

Day one

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Well, the day started with an epic fail.I might have just been a bit too naive when I started the blog in peace and quiet abroad. So back in London with no time to go to the shop before work i washed my hair with shampoo.
I read that it's good to give the hair a proper cleanse before starting to use natural stuff.  Shampoo contains silicon and mineral oils that are hard to get rid off. You should use a shampoo that contains SLS substances  that really dries the hair out. But for some people it works with just bicarbonate of soda.
Ok, I didn't use any strong shampoo, but ting was the last time. I promise!

Map of the problematique

We do put crap on our bodies. But who to blame but ourselves?

I'm addicted to you, don't you know that you're toxic?

Oui! I'm in the starting blocks, and tomorrow my new life without shampoo begins. Right now I wash my hair each and every day. I wash it with whatever shampoo I bought, and some conditioner from Lidl. I would like to get as far away from that as possible. And also stop using body lotion and such.

I am going to try several methods to wash it withm mostly kitchen stuff  (such as baking soda, apple cider  vinegar, honey... ). I want to be able to wash it less and less. To help me with that, there are things like oat and cocoa powder that are supposed to work like dryshampoo. For my body the main ingredient will be olive oil until I've learned more about scrubs and other fun things. 


There are just 3 things to do to prepare, and that is:
1. Research
2. Go to Planet Organic to buy everything (Going green for my hair)
3. Buy a bucket (you will understand later) and a lock to the food so my roomies won't eat it all up.

WISH ME LUCK