Crunchy Betty
Food on Your Face
Tough week, peeps. My heart goes out to the Japanese, and I've been monitoring the situation with a bit of trepidation and occasionally overwhelming doomishness.
To top it off, I'm also in the midst of both packing my …
I almost cannot believe that I'm writing this post.
It's not to scaremonger. It's hopefully to help.
See, This Wall Street Journal article points out that potassium iodide retailers are inundated with calls (and …
You know how it goes around here, right? I post great big giant resource pages of things to do with natural ingredients, and you read them all. (Thank you ... thank you for being so voracious.)
So, as I mentioned, I've …
There's more than one way to skin a soapnut.
While you can use the nuts directly in your washing machine to clean your laundry, you can also glean the magical nectar from inside the soap nut by turning it into a tea-type …
I've been futzing around with soapnuts for a few weeks now. They've gone straight into the wash, they've become liquid, they've washed my hair and my face.
Somehow, in all this nut jostling, Fiance (whose name is Skip and …
Absolutely the A-number-one road block to living a more crunchy lifestyle is: Not having the ingredients. When I don’t have something in the house (baking soda), I’ll be more apt to turn to the stray store-bought …
Woo-wee! (Or is it "whewee?")
After recommending this little recipe to several people who've asked for homemade hair gel ideas, I thought maybe it was in my best interest to try it myself before continuing to pass it …
Henna.
It's such a pretty word, isn't it? Such a pretty word, for such a mess I made. But we'll get to that later.
If you're looking for an alternative to chemical-laden hair dyes (in fact, I just read on cancer.gov …
"... the only moisturizer with 100% softening power."
"... and your wrinkles will be a thing of the past ..."
"... with a splash of natural juicy pomegranate fragrance to keep you fresh ..."
Somewhere, in all those …
You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!
Okay - I'm crazy in the coconut. As you can tell. I've just spent 37 hours obsessing about coconut oil.
In the homemade toothpaste post, Karen from Abundance on a Dime posed a …
You might've heard the big controversy swirling around fluoride these days.
It's not new.
But it's heating up lately. A lot.
In fact, Natural News just ran a very impassioned op-ed piece about the dangers of …
Sunday was epic.
Picture this: 15 homemade chocolate peppermint lip balms, 15 homemade bath sachets, friends, a camera, and a legendary purse. Add in 50 unsuspecting visitors to Manitou Springs.
We rocked the town. …
This is Ashley.
She's the one without the fancy hat.
She's a pharmacist, she's studied Traditional Chinese Medicine IN China, and she's traveled the world. She's also one of the most spiritually grounded, open-hearted, …
There are facial cleansers - foamy, gel, soapy, dry. There are exfoliants and scrubs. Toners and splashes.
And then there's oil.
The superhero of facial cleaning.
You heard me right. Oil.
Regardless of your …
I'm convinced that YouTube chooses the most awkward moments to use as the "starting frame." It's a very complicated embarrassment algorithm. Very tricky.
Anyway:
Tip Nut Homemade Lip Balm - That's where I found this …
Waiting for a homemade lip balm to set up is a little like developing a Polaroid.
You stand there and watch. And then you touch. And then you curse, because it wasn't quite dry and you screwed up the pristine look.
And …
You guys might not have noticed this, but we have a hidden gem who comments here at Crunchy Betty.
Her name is Susan.
She's a chemist and, originally, I was so very paranoid that she was going to start telling me how …
It sucked me under last week. Today. Feels like forever right now.
The rising tide of bad news and disappointment and just straight hardcore defeat. I started questioning this blog. I started questioning the fight.
(Is …
New plan.
After spending 4 hours yesterday writing about my favorite companies, I realized I had a novel - not a blog post. So I'm going to break this all up into separate posts over the next few weeks, so you're not …
I won a Dr Pepper T-shirt.
When I was 5.
For some reason, the memory converges with the old soda commercial* where the man is crawling through the desert and finds a vending machine. In my mind, my family and I were …
She sinks onto the sofa, forlorn.
Inside, a fire burns - an ache so deep, no man can touch it. No music can heal it.
Clutching her stomach, she turns this way and that, her raven hair tossing like leaves in the wild …
You have questions.
In fact, I have an entire folder full of emailed questions from you.
I receive several a week. Sometimes several a day. It scares me.
You scare me.
(Not really. You're very likable. Affable …
"Aspen?" a lady in a United uniform called. "Who's going to Aspen?"
About 20 people raised their hands, including a lady with a pinched face and a ginormous fox stole. She must not have gotten the PETA memo.
The group …
We all love beauty and skincare products. They keep our skin looking great but have you ever taken time to read what's in your favorite products? Far too often they contain all kinds of harmful synthetic chemicals and …
