In keeping with yesterday's post, this week's challenge is to make your shower product-free. Do it for a day, a week, or longer if you want to. Here's the step-by-step for a natural spa experience at home. (You can skip the steps that are too time-consuming for you this week.)
Clean your bathroom, top to bottom. Scrub the shower walls and the bathtub, disinfect the toilet, wipe down the sink and counter and mirror. Dust the walls and light fixtures and any furniture. Shake out the rugs, wash and air dry them, and sweep and mop the floor. If you have time, clean out and organize your cabinets, drawers, and medicine chest. Get rid of the out-dated medicine, old products, and make-up you never wear. It's taking up space and making it harder to find the stuff you do use. Take down your shower curtain and liner, wash them in cold water, and hang outside until dry. Those liners build up all sorts of nasties on the portion that stays inside your bathtub. You don't want to bathe in that stuff. Or, if it's about time your old set bit the dust, replace it with something more sustainable. Take out all the accumulated shower products: the shampoos, conditioners, deep conditioners, hot oil treatments, body washes, body gels, body scrubs, shaving creams, bubble baths... You get the idea. Clean out. No, you don't to throw out! Just put them all away, in your linen closet or bathroom cabinet (that is nice and organized now, right?). Take out all the reading material! No magazines, newspapers, circulars, or books of any kind. Out, out, out! Put out some fresh and fluffy towels. Hang up your favorite nightgown or pajamas and your clean robe on a hook on the door or wall. Put your clean rugs back on the floor. Hang up a pretty picture. Light a candle. Now that your bathroom is ready, get your products ready. Go read yesterday's post for the basic recipes for shampoo and body scrub. (You can use the body scrub on your face, just avoid the eyes.) Next time you're out, stop and pick up any supplies you don't have. The shampoo and body scrub take, literally, about one minute to make, so don't bother doing that ahead of time. Just mix them up right before you take your shower. Give yourself plenty of time to enjoy the simple luxury. Hmm. Kind of nice, isn't it?
How long can you go without your favorite shampoo? Bring your shower products back in one by one, as you decide to use them. You might be surprised by how many you really don't want again.
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