Ah!  And you thought I wasn’t going to make good on my promise from way, way long ago to make my own deodorant!  Well, I did it.  (Finally).  I used Angry Chicken’s “recipe” but substituted lavender instead of orange oil (I kept the ylang ylang).  It went together a little harder for me than for her, mostly since I don’t have a microwave and had to melt everything on the stove.  Plus, I’m now a little concerned that I put in too much lavender oil… oh well, at least I’ll smell like a pretty bouquet of flowers.  Right?

Also, I had no idea our stove top was as disgusting as it is (please, avert your eyes from the burn spots in the image after the jump)… 

Lately I’ve been relaxing a little bit on my “no plastic” thing…  Not because I am less concerned about the trash island, no no no, but more because I’m not completely stressed-out wacky insane any more.  I love being “no poo” (my hair has never looked better, I swear), going period positive was SUCH a good thing for me, and I’m really gung ho about this whole make-it-yourself deodorant…  But, really, I mean… sometimes it just has to be okay for me to buy yogurt in a carton instead of making it myself.

That said, as my Burt’s Bees cruddy spray metal bottle deodorant ran out, I had to face the fact that I’d bought all the ingredients for this homemade deodorant a few weeks months ago and needed to give it a try.  They’ve been sitting on the part of my desk where I keep the Projects In Waiting (PIW) for way, way too long.

Thus, my jar of E-vitamin capsules, bottles of essential oils and Cocoa and Shea butter finally left this part of my desk…  I’ll keep you posted on how this turns out.  I have high hopes, esp after Burt’s Bees let me down.  Plus, it is nice to have space for a new PIW.  Oh, wait… that is my Christmas cards, yeah… that was only like 20 min of empty creative space.  I really should get better at actually DOING my projects not just gathering the stuff and letting it wait for a long time.