My first crunchy fail is my garden.
Isn't that heartbreaking? Those sad wilted lettuce leaves. The dried up and droopy tomato and cucumber sprouts. And where is the strawberry plant you may ask? It disappeared. The plants were sitting on the deck getting some sun, and when I went to get them the strawberry plant was just gone. I couldn't find it. Disappeared. So we thought. A few days after this picture my mom found it. It had fallen off the deck and was hiding under something. But its in pretty sorry shape too.
I didn't manage to get them transplanted into bigger containers fast enough. Their roots were stunted and died. I'd think about doing it, but whenever I thought about doing it the weather would be all cloudy and rainy. And then on sunshiny days I'd be too distracted playing with my kiddo until it was either too late to do it or it was time for me to go to class. So they died. The lettuce actually has some new baby leafs so it might be salvageable. I'm not so confident with the others. Next Saturday Market though I'm going to pick up some new plants and they will be transplanted right away. Maybe they'll actually live longer than a couple weeks.
My second crunchy fail would be the Oil Cleansing Method. It is essentially No Poo, for your face. Using oil to clean your face instead of commercial face washes that over-dry your skin and have all sorts of nasty chemicals in em. Sounds great and I was excited to try it. Read a bunch online about it, tons of rave reviews, some troubleshooting. So I started and it was great at first. I broke out at first but that was part of the expected detox. Then the breakouts didn't go away, and more sprung up. The worse part was I got tons of little bumps all over my forehead. I figured I was doing something wrong so I read more online, thought I found the solutions and gave it another couple weeks for the previous breakouts to clear up. Except that didn't happen. Instead I started getting the little bumps on the sides of my face. So I threw in the towel. I hope to try again in the future, maybe try different oils or be more consistent with it. We'll see.
This is a two level fail though. When I went to buy some face wash to use I happened across this natural face wash at Safeway called In-Kind. No parabens, sulfates, pesticides, or other gross stuff in it. And it smells FANTASTIC. So I grabbed that and the In-Kind moisturizer. I only used it twice though, because my skin still felt greasy after I used it. Its probably not really fair to label it a fail, seeing as I only used it twice though. But, I don't really feel like dealing with a greasy feeling face, so we're putting it on a shelf until my skin has a chance to level out.
Instead, I'm going to try doing just a baking soda wash. I figured if the baking soda is good for taking care of the oils in my hair, it should take care of the oils on my face as well. I looked some stuff up online and found that a bunch of other people use baking soda as a face wash and get great results. So thats what I'm trying, here's hoping it works out better than OCM did!
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