Comments on: Our Journey to GNOWFGLINS

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:43:47 +0000

I have actually found as time has gone on that I no longer need deodorant at all. I am on a healing diet and the more my body detoxes, the less it smells. It has made me realize that smelly bodies = toxic bodies…….

By: JA

JA — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:40:06 +0000

I tried more than a dozen natural deodorants over the years, including the crystal ones, but nothing ever worked. Eventually I decided I was going to make it work no matter what, since I am terribly allergic to chemicals. I found Aubrey Organics, and gave theirs a try. It didn’t work, but this time I kept going. For the next few weeks, I would stink within a couple of hours of bathing. I kept trying different things to help, but couldn’t even remove the odor when bathing. I finally applied a drop or two of tea tree essential oil under each arm after bathing (while still wet) then air drying. After a couple of months I ran out of tea tree oil, and had to skip that step. To my surprise, there was no smell. Almost never. Now rarely do I notice an odor, but the tea tree oil removes it immediately and everything is ok again. Btw, Aubrey Organics is the *only* “natural” product line that I have found that is actually “all natural,” and I use their products now for anything that I dont make at home.

By: Ali

Ali — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:40:10 +0000

I use baking soda too, and for a while I used coconut oil which also works well.

As far as the eggs are concerned, what I have found is that eggs are very healing. They are little powerhouses of nutrition, and can help in the detox process. As the skin is the biggest ‘detox’ organ, any rashes or reactions coming out through the skin are good rather than bad – even the eczema was a detox reaction, despite it being very uncomfortable. Your little man’s body was obviously trying to get rid of some thing/s it considered toxic

I, and many others I know have managed to add eggs to our diet by adding them very slowly, starting with maybe just a teaspoonful of egg yolk and gradually increasing a little at a time over the course of several weeks. I now eat at least 4 eggs a day!

By: Jeannie Romanello

Jeannie Romanello — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:58:06 +0000

Thank you and I really believe I am going to enjoy learning from you. Thank you for being humble and you sharing “been there, done that”… it makes me want to listen.

By: Gudrun

Gudrun — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:55:51 +0000

Hello Wardeh,

I have just discovered your blog and am so excited to find somebody interested in healthy, natural foods. I am just now learning about sprouting (where have I been all these years) and a whole new world has opened up for me. I wanted to comment that washing hair with your own homemade soap or some from the farmers market or online works really well if you have a container with about a teaspoon of lemon juice or cider vinegar to 8 oz water as a final rinse. Leaves the hair squeeky clean and shiny. Soaps made with jojoba oil and pure essential oils are especially nourishing to hair and scalp. Just make sure you use pure natural soap and not the stuff in the supermarket.

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:49:06 +0000

I’m surprised that your naturopathic doctor didn’t address the subject of toxins in your home environment and diet. That seems like a shocking omission. Actually, all doctors should discuss this. Also, if straight baking soda irritates you, you can try cutting it with something milder and absorbant, such as clay, corn starch, powdered coconut…you get the idea.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:48:03 +0000

I tried using just corn starch and water on my hair for about a week (corn starch is supposed to absorb oil and is the main ingredient in a lot of dry shampoos), but my hair eventually got very greasy, dull, flat and stiff. I would really like to know as well if anyone has found a simple all natural product that works well for the hair, or if they’ve managed to go without using anything at all. It doesn’t seem possible, though, to have soft shiny hair without using shampoo. I think you have to either braid your hair or get dreadlocks in order to go the no shampoo route, like Avatar…

By: Pat Noe

Pat Noe — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:06:49 +0000

I am very interested in the no-soap, no-deodorant discussion going on. (I have always wondered how people in other centuries breathed, but maybe they actually had it better than we do!) Anyway, @Julie, do you use shampoo? My hair looks awful after a day or two between shampoos, but the more I think about it, I wonder if that’s the soap and conditioner residues rather than my hair? I would love more info, if anyone has anything to add.

Blessings,
Pat

By: Wardeh

Wardeh — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:09:07 +0000

Julie – That’s amazing! I think I’ll try the no-deodorant. I’ll pick a time when it is okay to be stinky, if there is such a time.

We use baking soda quite often instead of or with soap.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:08:20 +0000

Okay, I’m going to jump in and add to the deodorant discussion a tad –

I made the bold move to NO deodorant about 3 years ago. About the same time that I went to NO soap. I know, crazy, huh? Here’s my observations and what I do use:

Just as Suzanne says, there is about a 2-week detox period in which you should expect to stink. I’d recommend you plan to start when you don’t intend to have any social engagements.

I started this right at the beginning of summer, so I really did put it to the test even right off. Instead of deodorant, I filled a small coffee cup with baking soda and used an old blusher brush to dust my armpits with baking soda. Initially, and now also in the depths of a heat wave, I would do this just out of a shower while my skin was still damp and then again before I got dressed. I was so impressed at how I could wear a shirt for at least 2 days with no stink! Every time I removed my shirt, I’d check for stink. I was sniffing my armpits daily for about 6 months with astonishment. I kept asking my husband to sniff, but he wasn’t interested. Took him about a year before he decided to give it a shot. My man is a hard worker, and does a lot of manual labor in his job as well as at home. But he discovered (after his detox period), NO STINK! Now, for him, when he’s working hard, he can’t go more than a day without showering and refreshing the baking soda. HOWEVER, he also still uses soap. There have been a few times when I could FEEL myself sweat – you know, the drip in the armpit feeling. BUT NO STINK!

About 6 months after I started using baking soda for my armpits, I stopped using soap. Somebody on a forum I was a part of suggested that part of the reason our skin stinks is because of the soap buildup or residue mixing with our skin’s oils and perspiration. Yes, I still wash in the shower. But if I feel I need more than just a scrub down with water, I’ll spray my skin with diluted apple cider vinegar that I have in a spray bottle in the shower.

Baking soda doesn’t work for everybody. My best friend suffers from eczema and the baking soda gave her a rash. My mom hasn’t tried baking soda, but she just wipes her armpits with a cotton ball soaked in alcohol. (Not exactly non-toxic, but healthier than aluminum in pit sticks.) I’m excited to share the above coconut oil recipe with my friend to see if it will benefit her.