About a year ago, my good doctor friend Bara told me about the oil cleansing method. He was half joking, knew I would never try it myself, said the image of me slathering grease on my face (on purpose) was impossible to picture, but closed his argument by saying he could probably handle a hot [...]
Filed under: green stuff on December 20th, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Our Earth Day was a little bit less than perfect. We didn’t plant any trees or save any polar bears, and we’re all sick so we didn’t get any hiking in, and Zoe puked in two different parking lots which is really more of a biohazard than anything else, but we did manage to make [...]
Filed under: green stuff, kids on April 24th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Think it’s a bunch of hooha and animal cruelty? Well yeah, me too mostly. It’s not a solid loaf of bologna though, there’s a little bit of sense floating around in there.
For one, today is the middle of winter, halfway between the solstices. So naturally, we’re gonna start thinking about the next [...]
Filed under: animals, garden, green stuff on February 2nd, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A friend/customer/fellow nerd contacted me yesterday to ask me a very important question. “My state is passing a law to limit the use of phosphorus in soap to half a percent. Is this a good thing?”
Well yeah, it’s a really good thing. I admit that I had to do a little research [...]
Filed under: green stuff, soap on January 9th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I dunno about you, but in the winter, my face dies. Layer by layer. It’s not a pretty sight. Enter the tomato. I know it may sound weird, but I don’t really do pre-mixed in a jar face masks because they never ever do their job as well as the stuff I [...]
Filed under: craftiness, food, green stuff, local on January 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
