DIY Deodorant?

One of the funniest things about Pinterest is what gets repinned.

My top 2 pins are a t-shirt that says "Back 2 Back World War Champs" 

... and do it yourself deodorant. 

Off topic: ever have a word you can't spell right? Mine is deodorant. Thank glob for spell check. 

Here's the original link: http://greatist.com/health/DIY-Deodorant

And now here's how I did it: 

1. Look up all the DIY deodorant recipes on the internet. Discover that the recipe that I linked to above says use cornstarch, but apparently that's bad. 
2. Get ingredients: 
• arrowroot powder was easy to find at the local hippie store. 
• Find an essential oil that I like and that won't clash with the scent of coconut oil- I used sweet orange. 
• I already had baking soda and coconut oil- I used Spectrum. 
  
3. Use up a regular container of deodorant. Take out the little plastic thing that holds the deodorant inside and realize that in my particular brand (Secret) there are holes in the bottom. Wonder how exactly I will be filling said container with a liquid. 
4. Determine that filling those holes with hot glue is a good idea. And it actually was a good idea! Tip: use wax paper underneath so you don't hot glue your base to something else. You just want to fill the holes. 
5. Replace base in deodorant container. 
6. Melt coconut oil, mix up ingredients.


• 1/2 cup coconut oil (pre-melting)
• 1/4 cup arrowroot powder
• 1/4 cup baking soda
• 1/8 -1/4 teaspoon essential oil 


7. Slowly pour into container
8. Realize that I have too much left over, put some in fridge in a smallish tupperware container.
9. Be skeptical. 
10. Use deodorant- important note: this is not anti-perspirant. It's de-stinkifier. I shower at night after working out. That's when I use this stuff- I put it on after my shower, then again before going to sleep. In the morning, I go back to using my full-of-chemicals but beloved Secret. 

Results: 

• It smells good.
• It's greasy, but my pits are getting moisturized. I guess. 
• I'm only using it at night and I don't care if I get damp pits then. 
• I'm not stinky. 
• It's a little gritty.

Judgement: I think I'm going to keep this up. 3 weeks in and no adverse effects. 

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Shake

I'm just going to start posting random stuff.

Today I had a delicious smoothie/shake thing for breakfast. It is not from a multilevel marketing company. F-you, Advocrap and Herbacult.

I bought this stuff from drugstore.com and it's delicious.

Recipe:
Tera'sWhey rBGH free Dark Chocolate Whey Protein - 2 scoops
Silk Almond Milk (or the dairy/non-dairy milk of your choice)- 8 oz.
1 cup strawberries- slice them bitches up
1 tbsp psyllium husks- I use Yerba Prima, but whatever. Benefiber also works but it's super processed and I'm trying to avoid that.

Put that shit in your magic bullet or ninja or whatever you use.

Use a straw for fanciness.

Egg Muffins

Last week's body image post has led to this one: even if I don't lose weight, I'll be damned if I'm not trying to eat healthfully.

Does that mean I didn't drink beer last weekend at the beer festival I worked at? Heck no. I had 3. 

I will share with you now the deliciousness that I just made for lunch. I've been eating more eggs- they're full of protein & all that. More accurately, I've been eating more egg whites. And I work at home, so I have occasion to mix stuff and bake it while I work. If you don't have that time, you could always spend a wee bit of time on the weekend & make some of these to reheat through the week.  Update: These are even better on day 2!

Also, if you're on weight watchers (again) these have 2 points each according to the new points plus (tm and all that). 

Thereby, I present to you: Egg Muffins!

• 6 whole eggs- I used large. They were on sale, 2 doz. for a dollar at Food Lion. Yay!
• 6 egg whites... let me give you a recommendation- separate the egg whites first. If you have any mistakes, you can just toss it in and count it toward the egg count. You probably already knew that, though. 
• 1 Tablespoon flour- I don't know why, but I read that about it in a recipe at Polyface Farms website I guess it holds stuff together.
• 1/4 cup milk
• Salt & pepper
• 1 cup feta cheese - I used reduced fat- if you use regular, make sure you account for it if you're watching that sort of thing.
• 3/4ish cup cooked spinach which started out frozen
• 1 tomato, chopped up

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Pop frozen spinach in microwave
3. Whisk together the egg whites & eggs, milk, flour, salt & pepper.
4. Cut up the tomato & mix in gently
5. Allow the spinach to cool a bit & add that in
6. Add in feta
7. Spray muffin tin with cooking spray & pour in mixture
8. Cook at 350 about 35-40 minutes!
9. Eat your healthy AND delicious meal!

After I made these, I realized a few things....

• Full-fat feta would probably work better. Either that, or more low-fat feta. Because more cheese always = more delicious.
• Next time I'm probably going to cook up some turkey bacon and dice it up and put it in. Because mmm, bacon.