Monday night, I made the dreamiest body scrub using a modified version of Adrianna's recipe over at A Cozy Kitchen. It smells delicious (actually, it smells a lot like my current deodorant + some coconut), and it's just what my dry, itchy skin needed. My knees, elbows, and feet have never felt better! I knew this scrub and I were meant to be the moment I saw the word grapefruit. My sweet neighbors across the street have given us permission to take advantage of their grapefruit...
Ingredients (provided at noahsnaturals.com)- "Organic Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil*, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Organic Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil*, Organic Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil*, Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Retinyl Palmitate (Vitamin A), Bisabolol, Naturally Derived Fragrance*. *Indicates Plant Origin" I couldn't locate this product in the Cosmetic Safety Database, so I linked to each ingredient individually above. The following three ingredients concern me most: Retinyl Palmitate...
Here lately, Lake Charles has been a chilly, rainy, ridiculous mess. Cold weather without snow really brings me down, so here's how I've been coping: Having several cups of warm tea throughout the day, like the delicious Earl Grey that I purchased yesterday. Relaxing in bathtubs filled with hot water and either homemade bath soak or essence soak. Wearing Kirby's warm and comfy beagle sweatshirt. Fortunately, it's also pretty cute. How do you deal with cold...
Last night I took the most wonderful bath imaginable. Here are the products that made it possible: DayNa Decker Botanika Essence Soak in Ella-I got a free bottle of Essence Soak in the mail recently for the purpose of trying and then reviewing, and I can't even begin to describe how great this stuff smells. It isn't fleeting, either. It's a wonderful, rich, floral, intoxicating, long-lasting scent. I sprinkled about two and a half hands full of this soak into the tub just before getting in. It was probably my favorite part. It makes a fun crackling noise as it hits...
Maybe it's only because I'm on my period, but I've felt a very real sense of dread all day long. I drank two cups of coffee, and they successfully made me feel much worse. I keep thinking about all the bad things that may or may not happen and how little control I have over most things, and I feel like I may be going crazy. I've always been a worrier, but this is a little ridiculous. I know that it's likely a culmination of the stress I feel concerning moving out of the state and my lack of direction...