Since confessing to giving up the homemade laundry detergent, I should let you in on another secret.
I've been buying toothpaste again.
Remember I tried some homemade concoction?
And then that was not working out so well, so I tried something else?
Well it got worse, and found that my teeth had become very sensitive so much that I went ahead and bought the sensitive tooth stuff (and it is actually working).
Which got me to thinking as to why I started doing all the homemade stuff to begin with. Sure it is fun as a hobby: pioneering and do-it-yourself satisfaction is great. It can be more frugal in some cases, but more often than not, isn't really.
But there was a bigger issue, issues that stem from my distrust of the entire world and everything in it. The big corporations are out to get us and poison us and it's all a big conspiracy type thing.
For example:
I was a cloth diaper snob with kiddos 3, 4, and 5, but when 6 rolled around, we had so much laundry that I felt the disposables were worth it. And you know what?
THEY WERE GREAT!
THIS is why people invented 'sposies.
I don't think anymore that all progress is a big conspiracy to destroy the earth or to fill us with toxins or to rearrange our DNA (yes, I have heard pastors online say this). Some may be, most isn't. So many wonderful things have been invented to make our lives better. Some we don't need, some I don't want, but who wants to go back to pre-electric days really?
So, I'm quitting being scared of the world, of the NWO, of the devil. He who is in me is greater that he who is in the world!
Hi Ma,
ReplyDeleteI'm still using baking soda to brush my teeth. It works great for me, and I like how clean my mouth tastes afterwords. I was having some sensitivity in my teeth prior to doing the baking soda, and still have a slight sensitivity issue on occasion (not every moment, just "once in a blue moon" now) and I do have a porcelain filling right in front that was slowly chipping away prior to using baking soda which now has covered over with my own enamel!!! So I do think some of the distrust of consumerism is well placed.
Over my vacation I did use a bit of shampoo, though. I used baking soda as well, and added a small amount of Head and Shoulders in a basin of water, not putting the shampoo on my head directly. Now that I'm home it's back to just baking soda. :)
I'm so glad that the baking soda is working for you. I wish it did for me:( but we're all different. I have some areas I would like remineralized that is SO cool that yours is doing it!
DeleteI'm still off the shampoo, though, that was one experiment that was a keeper, I think:)
Amen!
ReplyDeleteHello again Tabitha:)
DeleteAmen! But I'm not going back to shampoo. :-) I've been on an BS/salt water wash and ACV rinse routine (after several not so successful experiments) for a while now, and my hair has never been softer or clean longer. But I hear you loud and clear. Time is money, so pioneering it can be pretty silly and downright snobbish. And I love your verse!Amen, again!
ReplyDeleteBlessings!
I'm not planning on going back to shampoo either, like I told Susan (see above:))
DeleteThe glittery verse craft is something one of my littles made in Sunday school.
Good for you!!!!! My son and his family tried the Tom's all natural toothpaste, it is the most popular of all the natural ones. And that ear for the first time, they all had tons of cavities!!! Back to good old Crest.
ReplyDeleteAAH! I do buy Tom's for the kiddos, I may want to rethink that hmmm?
DeleteAmen! I do try to go the Oraganic foods route since I had cancer, but really there is so much that you can do and really God is in control. I am glad you are no longer stressed out in those areas.
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Joanne
I think real food is very important to us, organic if possible, but we cannot do it all. We are so very blessed to have all the food and options we do!
DeleteHi Ma, It is good to know alternatives, I agree and I also quit making my laundry soap, but have the makings in the laundry room, "just in case". :D
ReplyDeleteI found a toothpaste called Vitamyr at a health food store 5 years ago and have had to get it a few times online directly from the company. Now my local health store has ordered a case of it and I can get it there. I and my husband being "invested" with lots of porcelain and caps like it for the gum healing properties and haven't had ANY sensitivity (both had much before) in the years we've used it. Our kids use it and so far no cavities.
Good luck finding a good product, I think there are several out there.
I didn't try baking soda regime you were on, but had been suspicious that it might not be right for us because I had used Arm & Hammer tube paste and experienced enamel erosion (dentist seemed to think it was me brushing too hard, I dunno).
Surely you don't think "Crest" type fluoride is needed in toothpaste do you? I think Ma knows better. :D
I looked around on the Vitamyr site a bit, I may try it out. I've been buying just the cheapest sensitive tooth toothpaste for me. They all have the active ingredient, potassium nitrate, but they all also have the more undesirable things, too. I'm glad to hear it works on the sensitivity issue.
DeleteOur health food store closed down but there is a Vitamin Shoppe near us that I have been frequenting. They have some natural toothpastes, so I'll be on the lookout for this one or something like it. I have been buying Tom's for the kids, without the fluoride:)
You just crack me up Ma. You sound like me almost 40 years ago. I was a major hippie, canned all my food, soy bean whole wheat spaghetti and cloth diapers to boot. And here I am...still kickin...hundreds of Big Mac's and paper napkins later.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! Love you!
Thanks Diane:) Much love to you too!
DeleteGood for you! Some things are good to quit!
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