bad hippie adventures — wash

Soap care....it's a thing. How to keep your handmade soap happy!

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Soap care....it's a thing. How to keep your handmade soap happy!

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...

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Castile soap? Why? Because it is awesome!!!

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Castile soap? Why? Because it is awesome!!!

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...

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Brief musings on laundry detergent & why commercial detergent is crap

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Brief musings on laundry detergent & why commercial detergent is crap

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...

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What are you doing to your hair? STOP with the shampoo!

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What are you doing to your hair? STOP with the shampoo!

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...

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From hobby to reality - taking a small business live

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From hobby to reality - taking a small business live

bad hippies becomes a reality... Many moons ago Mark and I talked about all the junk we consume both internally and externally.  Yuck.  Think about any average American on any given day and think about the amount of crap we consume every single day.From fast or pre-made processed food to the shaving lotion, shampoos, conditioners, soaps, styling products, not to mention the crap we wash and dry our clothes in and then put them on our largest organs (our skin people...our skin).  Oh and then we started to think about what happens when you wash all the stuff down the...

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