bad hippie adventures — Vegan

Be kind to your soap. These are words I had never really considered before starting the bad hippies, but these are important words to consider if you use handmade soap.Whether if you use ours (of course you should use ours) or another soapers you should always use a well draining soap dish.   Why? Handmade soap is oil based and doesn't contain all the other crap that commercial soap does to keep it hard and together (OH and you don't need all of this crap on your skin and son't need to send it down the drain)! Just for fun...

In with the new! New year, new post. New focus, new all sorts of stuff! I realize that it has been a new year for a while now, but I have been slow. Which shouldn't be surprising to a single person that knows me. The hippies had a great year last year. Thank you to all of the people that have supported us in this new adventure. Wow. It has been amazing. Now we are looking to how to make 2018 even more groovy. We have been adding some new products and right now are testing spring and summer scents,...

Going back to the beginnings again. Lately I have been talking about the evolution of our company and how we came to be. Yep it all started with the laundry detergent, it then evolved into not wanting to pay high store prices for natural soaps. So soaping commenced (am I the only one that thinks the word commenced should mean end instead of begin? Like prohibit. Pro=for, so why does prohibit mean no?).We started small since it was just for us. We used bread pans for molds or whatever we could find and we lost sooooooo much essential oil by burning...

Now we get to talk about laundry detergent. Say what? What's wrong with my laundry detergent? In short, everything is wrong with your commercial laundry detergent.Going back to why we started our company it was laundry detergent. Skin is our largest organ. It absorbs stuff into your bloodstream and frequently people don't even consider that the detergent and/or fabric softener is full of all sorts of crap that your skin sucks in. The other factor we often don't even consider is what happens to the water that gets washed down the drain? That water is full of all the stuff...

A facebook post got me thinking... The post was about how frequently people wash their hair, something most people don't give much thought to right? You should. You really should. This post will be about shampoo, but I will also talk about all the other crap in future posts.Washing you hair is something we just do...right? But why? For millennium there was no shampoo and people seemed to do just fine. Yes I know there were funny wigs and powdered hair, but most people simply just didn't wash their hair with any regularity if ever. When did it change? Most likely...