March 8 2000 -- 12:23 PM
EST
It's been forever but Whole Foods
finally restocked all the Dr. Bronner soaps in the personal care aisle. I
laughed though because when they restocked, all the flavors were back in solids
and liquids in the regular size assortments, but they also had the peppermint
flavor in gallon sizes. Well, duh. It's only the nicest kind! It's
always out! Get more! Get more!
I've been wanting to get
peppermint Castile soap for weeks now. I was beginning to think I was going to
have to go to Chamberlain's or order it. Yeesh.
I also went ahead and made the
kitchen spray I wanted to make:
- 1/4 cup liquid peppermint Castile
soap (ex: Dr. Bronner's)
- 4 cups water
 Peppermint essential oil is antiseptic and
antimicrobial among other things. It also repels insects away so it's pretty
much ideal for a kitchen spray recipe. I love the fresh smell! So I've got an
eco-friendly body soap, a kitchen soap, an insect repellent, and an air
freshener in one. No wonder it's always selling out!
I had an empty Seventh Generation
spray bottle laying around so I rinsed it out well and then poured in my
kitchen spray mix. I also grabbed one of my herbal books and scanned the
watercolor drawing out of it and made a quick label so Paul doesn't get
confused if he picks it up. There are too many plain white bottles. I went
ahead and made a label for the diluted Murphy's Oil Soap too.
I've been using it for a body wash
and it feels divine with that yummy lather and the steam carries the smell all
around. It feels very fresh and pleasantly tingly. Yummmmm!
At dinner I finished the
minestrone first so I was cutting Contact paper while he was eating and
watching me.
"Why are you
cutting Contact paper up?"
"So I can paste the label to
this bottle." I showed him the label for the peppermint spray. "I am
going to label all these other things under the sink too so we don't get
confused."
"Good idea -- now that there
are more than one mixture. But why don't you just print onto Avery labels?
Don't we have some?
"Because if I do that, while
the label will be self-adhesive, it won't be water proof. So it's better to
just print on plain paper and then stick it on with clear Contact
paper."
"Oh. Is this the same soap
from last night's bath?"
"Yes. I wanted to make some
up for the kitchen though to keep the bugs away since it is peppermint. Don't
you think it smells nice? You ought to use some today when we
bathe."
"It does smell nice. I was
just worried."
"What do you mean
worried?"
"Last night when I came to
bed and you were asleep I sniffed you."
"You did!? What the hell
for?!"
"To see if you smelled like a
candy cane."
"What?!"
"You smelled like peppermint,
but it wasn't bad. It was actually pleasant and not strong at all. Nice and
mild. I just didn't want to use any last night because I was worried that if I
did, I might end up smelling like a superstrong candycane and that would be too
weird."
"You are so goofy! I can't
believe you are sniffing me in my sleep!"
The label on the Dr. Bronner's
bottle made us both nuts though -- super type heavy, can't read a bloody thing,
their website is also kind of clunky. This is terrible. It's such a great
product! They need help with their marketing though. They are doing so many
good things with the actual packaging -- soy-based inks with the
silk-screening, no excess cardboard or paper, trying to conserve. But the
design work -- yow! Teeny type, winding all around, overly laden with stuff.
Why don't they leave the soap label as plain as possible and just put all this
other information in a pamphlet in some point-of-purchase display?!
So I am still working on making as
much of the house as vegan as possible -- making little steps of progress in
different areas of my life.
~Astrophe
  
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