Update: Honey Challenge & Sorta No 'Poo

So have you been wondering how I have been doing on the CrunchyBetty Honey Challenge and with the Sorta No ‘Poo? Yes? Well I will fill you in on it right now!  As you may know the Honey Challenge officially ended a couple of weeks ago, but, nevertheless, I have continued to use honey to wash my face everyday since the challenge began on July 18. I am very glad that I continued too, because the skin on my face has improved immensely. Oh, it is not perfect by any means, but it is much better. I have less dry spots and it seems smoother. What breakouts I do have seem to disappear quicker too. I am quite pleased!

The Sorta No ‘Poo is going well too. I really like the way my hair feels and looks. Amazingly my hair seems to be darker. This is an after effect I have heard of from the No ‘Poo method, but I had not expected it using Sorta No ‘Poo. I do feel like I need to wash my hair everyday with this method, but I may be wrong. I will start to experiment with this over the next couple of weeks. I also think that if you let the suds sit on your head for a bit more of the oils are removed. Anyway, I will report back when I have more evidence.

The only issue I have with both of these methods is that I have to run to the kitchen or the fridge before taking a shower. You know it is just not my first thought that I need to run to the kitchen before my shower. To combat this, I have now put some honey in a small jar and I keep it in the bathroom. I am not sure what company might think of this, but it makes my life easier and I don’t have that much company anyway.

That does not fix my issue with needing to keep my shampoo and conditioner in the fridge, however. Truthfully, I have been keeping them on the side of the the tub, but I really should refrigerate them. I thought that one of these little fridges would be a good solution:

However, Rodney thinks that it is a bit odd and that it would be strange in the bathroom. I have to admit I would never buy one new but if I found one at a garage sale I would pick one up. If someone is snoopy enough to look in it, what would it matter? Everything in it would be edible. They could have a snack!

Honey Challenge: Day 7

It has been a very trying week here. Between the sadness of Walters' passing, the frustration of trying to reunite a lost dog to its owner* and the anger at having our garage broken into it has been a really crummy week. I did, however, wash my face with honey everyday and continued to wash my hair the Sorta No 'Poo way. I can not say that my skin is fabulous, but I can say it is not worse and I will keep washing it with honey for at least one more week. Tomorrow on Crunchy Betty there will be some new ideas to add to the honey wash, so I expect one of those might be what I need to be really dazzled. 

My hair, however, is a different story. I am quite please with how my hair is doing. I have washed it everyday with the Sorta No 'Poo method and it feels good. This week I am going to try skipping a few days and only water rinsing on the skipped days. This is what I do most of the time, since I wear my hair up a lot in the summer. It has been so beastly hot though I just felt I had to wash it, for I felt sticky all over. Ick. 

This coming week I will continue both experiments and I will let you know how it goes. I have several events happening this week though, so I expect I might not be back here until Friday. Have a happy week!

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*Just after the Fourth of July a flyer went around about a lost dog. I kept the flyer on my refrigerator for a week and then I recycled it. Well, after Walter passed I was looking at animals at the Humane Society and I saw the dog listed there! But the flyer was gone. I tried all sorts of avenues, but I was never able to find his owners. In the end I made a flyer of my own and posted it in hopes that the owners will see it.