Tuesday, 4/22/08
Mental Detox Week

Today is Earth Day, and this is mental detox week. Used to be TV turnoff week, but now Adbusters has extended it to all technology. I don't care much about not watching television, but the computer rules my life.

This detox week comes at the perfect time, because I've been feeling the need to simplify anyway. Because I'm not tutoring this week, and so don't have to be presentable, this is the week I'm going to try the no-shampoo experiment. I hear that a baking soda scrub and an apple cider vinegar rinse gets hair just as clean as shampoo, without all the chemicals.

I'm trying to go shampoo free because:

Even though I shop at Lush, their shampoos still include ingredients called sulfates.

My hair has a slight wave, which might upgrade to actual wave or curl without the weight of shampoo.

I can make my own scented rinses, like a rosemary rinse or a rooibos rinse.

Commercial perfumes irritate my asthma, and essential oils are the only ones I can stand. Even in organic shampoos, there is no way to be sure that the fragrance used is essential oil. The only way to be sure is to make it myself.