Can Local Soap Rituals Really Align Your Chakras?

[Astronuc]

MIH, if you use the soap without properly following instructions, it could destroy your chakras, flush your aura, blind your third eye, and the Priestess only knows what other terrible thngs.

<hits MIF over the head with a fish in the traditional PF spirit cleansing ceremony>

Pssssst. Evo. Uh-mmmm - isn't this secret sisterhood stuff. And know that we know about it the sisters are going to have to do memory modification, or some more extreme alternative, to those who read that.

 

[Moonbear]

(3 miles or so is a SHORT hike).

3 miles is only a short hike if you're not doing it in cute new sandals without socks and no water supply thinking you're only going to walk 10 min tops looking for a place near a hotel to grab a lunch. At 4 miles I called the cab to get me back to the hotel when the student with me noticed the blood on my heels...THAT blister wasn't even one I felt (sorry, I have blisters that are still healing from that stupid idea).

I think we're going to have to send Cyrus to the health clinic, though, to find out where his chakras are (then he can tell the rest of us).

 

[Math Is Hard]

MIH, if you use the soap without properly following instructions, it could destroy your chakras, flush your aura, blind your third eye, and the Priestess only knows what other terrible thngs.

<hits MIF over the head with a fish in the traditional PF spirit cleansing ceremony>

Ah, thank you for the fish whap.

so...What did your doc say? How's the arm? Any broken chakras to report?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Did you nod and smile?

Those situations can be uncomfortable, esp if you don't want to offend anyone. Sometimes I just nod and smile and say "really?" a lot, sometimes I engage them, and sometimes I go after them. It depends on the situation. Given that I have long sought-out interesting and unusual stories, I do try to listen and give them a fair chance. If they are total crackpots that really have no credibility, it doesn't take long to show.

 

[larkspur]

It's not only women, there are men out there who think that they smell nice when they put on so much cologne that you can smell them from down the street.
Makes me want to puke.

Amen! I have recently switched gyms from the old fuddy duddy YMCA to the newer hipper gym in town(because it was half the price). All the younger guys wear some kind of perfume that makes me wheeze! I can't get away from them fast enough!

 

[rewebster]

Amen! I have recently switched gyms from the old fuddy duddy YMCA to the newer hipper gym in town(because it was half the price). All the younger guys wear some kind of perfume that makes me wheeze! I can't get away from them fast enough!

what?

 

[larkspur]

what?

Don't get me wrong, I love cologne on a man but not so strong you can smell it from six feet away. AXE is the worst. That cheap musk smell mixed with sweat...eeewww!

 

[rewebster]

(it sounded like they were ALL chasing after you)

 

[turbo]

Don't get me wrong, I love cologne on a man but not so strong you can smell it from six feet away. AXE is the worst. That cheap musk smell mixed with sweat...eeewww!

There is no need for a man or a woman to wear cologne. That practice started when people did not bathe, and it need not persist. Nor should little children go school and be forced to breathe all the fragrance chemicals that all the mothers have been brainwashed into using so that their kids' clothes smell "fresh". Idiots! The increasing incidence of autism, asthma, and other problems couldn't be due to this, could it? No, certainly not. Fragrance chemicals are overwhelmingly neurological stimulants or depressants and that couldn't hurt kids whose immune systems are still forming...

 

[larkspur]

(it sounded like they were ALL chasing after you)

Nope!

 

[binzing]

My favorite new-ager story came from a woman who claimed that a black panther appeared and slept next to her during the night of her vision quest.

Hey man, peyote can do stuff like that. I just got this image of an older Navajo person speaking in their unique (and often quite funny) accent about stuff like this...

 

[Phrak]

Soap is hard. Buy it in 5 gallon tubs. Scent and flavor to taste.

 

[Moonbear]

Soap is hard. Buy it in 5 gallon tubs. Scent and flavor to taste.

Are you planning to eat it? I can't help but wonder how many times your mom washed your mouth out with soap for you to be considering the flavor of soap as an important quality.

 

[NoTime]

Are you planning to eat it? I can't help but wonder how many times your mom washed your mouth out with soap for you to be considering the flavor of soap as an important quality.

Probably beats entomophagy

 

[Phrak]

Re: bugs (eek) and eating soap (yuck)

OK. Fine. I confess. I spend all my free weekends at boutiques. I have little baskets all over the house with ribbons and bows and tiny decorative, delicate flowers artfully woven into the weave. My little baskets hold the cutest little cloth animals, dressed in period clothing, adorning my favorite scented and sculpted little soapettes. Some call it foo-foo, I call it frou-frou. So, I am at my wits end. I just can't part with my precious little soapies, so I bathe, pumping soap out of a nice big 55 gallon drum of industrial detergent I bought on ebay.

 

[Math Is Hard]

OK. Fine. I confess. I spend all my free weekends at boutiques. I have little baskets all over the house with ribbons and bows and tiny decorative, delicate flowers artfully woven into the weave. My little baskets hold the cutest little cloth animals, dressed in period clothing, adorning my favorite scented and sculpted little soapettes. Some call it foo-foo, I call it frou-frou. So, I am at my wits end. I just can't part with my precious little soapies, so I bathe, pumping soap out of a nice big 55 gallon drum of industrial detergent I bought on ebay.

I knew it!

 

[Math Is Hard]

This is my most favorite soap ever, by the way:

http://www.pajamamania.com/media/GRCS.jpg

Trois Petits Cochons. Very hard to find. They smell like "fresh linen" rather than "cochons".

 

[edward]

So where does everyone stand on scented candles. Some of them smell like chemical factories to me. My wife thinks they are wonderful . phewwwww...no gardenias smell wonderful. Is it just me

 

[Phrak]

This is my most favorite soap ever, by the way:

http://www.pajamamania.com/media/GRCS.jpg

Trois Petits Cochons. Very hard to find. They smell like "fresh linen" rather than "cochons".

I simply MUST have some! I'll dress them in tiny little paisleys and plaid. Where ever did you find them? I'll trade you for 10 gallons of floor wax.

 

[binzing]

Some friends of our's who are pretty hippy had some awesome soap at their part time house in Moab, UT when we went there for spring break. They weren't there though, so I couldn't ask where they got it. It had an abrasive in it to help clean, me thinks it was like apricot pits or something. Very good

 

[Tsu]

This is my most favorite soap ever, by the way:

http://www.pajamamania.com/media/GRCS.jpg

Trois Petits Cochons. Very hard to find. They smell like "fresh linen" rather than "cochons".

http://www.shop.edirectory.co.uk/presentfinder/1306/mig/d/trois+petits+cochons+three+little+pigs+scented+soaps+gianna+rose+atelier/pid/3999339

 

[NoTime]

So where does everyone stand on scented candles. Some of them smell like chemical factories to me. My wife thinks they are wonderful . phewwwww...no gardenias smell wonderful. Is it just me

I went to check out the antique auto museum at a Yankee Candle in Mass.
Definitely worthwhile if you like cars (and it's still there as this was some time ago).

Payback was to be a shopping session in the candle section.
This was probably the most intense olfactory experience in my life.
I had to leave, closely followed by the organizer of the excursion
In small doses candles are ok.

 

[binzing]

We have a real pot bellied pig, and you definitely don't want to go and try and wash your self with her...

 

[Kurdt]

I never stand on scented candles. Especially when they're lit.

 

[Moonbear]

So where does everyone stand on scented candles. Some of them smell like chemical factories to me. My wife thinks they are wonderful . phewwwww...no gardenias smell wonderful. Is it just me

I never stand on scented candles. Especially when they're lit.

It depends on the candle. A lot of them just make me sneeze or give me a headache, but then there are some that I just love. I have some lavender scented ones I love, and some fruit scents are just soothing to me, like peach. I don't like the ones that are named things like "Mountain Rain" or "Meadow Brook." I don't know what scent they're attempting to recreate, but it just seems like cheap perfume to me.

 

[NoTime]

I never stand on scented candles. Especially when they're lit.

Jumping Jack Flash
Jack be nimble.

 

[Evo]

It depends on the candle. A lot of them just make me sneeze or give me a headache, but then there are some that I just love. I have some lavender scented ones I love, and some fruit scents are just soothing to me, like peach. I don't like the ones that are named things like "Mountain Rain" or "Meadow Brook." I don't know what scent they're attempting to recreate, but it just seems like cheap perfume to me.

Oooh, I like Yankee Candle's "grass", it smells like new mown grass.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I would have to take some Benadryl.

 

[Evo]

Here is the entire line of the soaps MIH.

http://www.giannarose.com/grastore.cfm?view=product&Category=animal&do=list

 

[Moonbear]

Oooh, I like Yankee Candle's "grass", it smells like new mown grass.

I would have to take some Benadryl.

I need an aspirin just to walk past a Yankee Candle shop. I like a few of their candles, but most are icky, and the place stinks so badly I can't even tell what some of the candles smell like because my sense of smell is shot about 10 seconds after entering their stores.

 

[Kurdt]

Never trust a hippy candle labeled "grass".

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Never trust a hippy candle labeled "grass".

Here in Oregon there is a festival called "The Country Fair" that began as a hippie and crafts festival, and that to this day the police pretty much ignore. The fair is famous for its pot and hash tents, and green brownies. For the most part, in fact afaik it is always peaceful without any significant problems, but I am told that in that past it could get pretty bad as far as the drugs go. If you saw a hippie with a spritzer, you didn't want to let him or her spray you as it may contain LSD!

Tsu has gone but I never have: She just hasn't seemed right ever since.

 

[binzing]

Ha The Country Fair is stoner heaven..I was going to go with my dad like two years ago whenwe were up in Corvallis, but we never got tickets.

 

[binzing]

BTW Ivan, my dad and I are actually making it up there this summer, so you may see us at da Vinci Days. We normally float the river portion of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, so you may see me in my outlandish looking Pyranha kayak.

 

[OmCheeto]

Here in Oregon there is a festival called "The Country Fair" that began as a hippie and crafts festival, and that to this day the police pretty much ignore. The fair is famous for its pot and hash tents, and green brownies. For the most part, in fact afaik it is always peaceful without any significant problems, but I am told that in that past it could get pretty bad as far as the drugs go. If you saw a hippie with a spritzer, you didn't want to let him or her spray you as it may contain LSD!

Tsu has gone but I never have: She just hasn't seemed right ever since.

hmmm... I've only missed going one year in the last 20.
That was the first place I ever bought hippie soap.
It's now my largest investment at the fair every year.
The vendors have never mentioned the voodoo shakra belly rubbing thing to me.

ah ha! there they are: http://simmonsnaturals.stores.yahoo.net/soap.html

The only one I didn't much care for was one that had caraway seeds embedded into it.
It's like, OUCH! Who put these stupid seeds in here? It was quite annoying having to dig them out with my fingernails and flick them down the drain until the bar was gone.

Oh, and Ivan, the country fair is now a drug and alcohol free zone. The spritzers are now filled with water and are used to extinguish rogue pipes.

But don't fret. There are still lots of half-naked hippies
http://www.oregoncountryfair.org/gallery_unknown/photos/content/bin/images/large/unknown_2.jpg

And people ask me why I would go to a fair where they don't have carnival rides and you don't get to see row after row of blue ribbon chickens and cows. Ah. Hahahahahaha! 35 days and counting.

 

[binzing]

OM, your in Oregon as well?

 

[OmCheeto]

OM, your in Oregon as well?

Native Orygoonian since 1959 =8)

 

[Moonbear]

The only one I didn't much care for was one that had caraway seeds embedded into it.
It's like, OUCH! Who put these stupid seeds in here? It was quite annoying having to dig them out with my fingernails and flick them down the drain until the bar was gone.

That's for exfoliation.

I like the scents of a lot of those "hippie" soaps, but like you, have never had anyone claim they did anything to chakras. At most, they promote things like relaxation. I just like the way they smell. I had some nice ones that have had scents like peppermint or eucalyptus (great for waking up in the morning) or lavender (soothing for a bath before bedtime). Much more appealing to me than the perfumes in soaps sold at regular stores. One of the nicest ones I got was from a sheep farm that made sheep's milk soap. They had nice scents, it rinsed well, made my skin feel good, and the bars lasted longer than a lot of those homemade ones usually do. Unfortunately, last time I checked for them online, they had disappeared.

 

[~christina~]

Oooh, I like Yankee Candle's "grass", it smells like new mown grass.

Sorry but newly mown grass reminds me of the cemetery...

 

[binzing]

Cool. I know there's one or two other New Mexicans on here, but I've forgotten who they are...
Calling all New Mexicans! Show yourselves dammit!

 

[OmCheeto]

That's for exfoliation.

I thought agent orange did that.

I like the scents of a lot of those "hippie" soaps, but like you, have never had anyone claim they did anything to chakras. At most, they promote things like relaxation. I just like the way they smell. I had some nice ones that have had scents like peppermint or eucalyptus (great for waking up in the morning) or lavender (soothing for a bath before bedtime). Much more appealing to me than the perfumes in soaps sold at regular stores. One of the nicest ones I got was from a sheep farm that made sheep's milk soap. They had nice scents, it rinsed well, made my skin feel good, and the bars lasted longer than a lot of those homemade ones usually do. Unfortunately, last time I checked for them online, they had disappeared.

I'll check at the fair for sheep's milk soap. They usually have at least 4 different soap vendors.

On another note, I was researching Ivan's algae-oil the other day and noticed that one of the byproducts was glycerin. Now I've purchased glycerin soap when I ran out of hippie soap on occasion. Do you think the diesel glycerin byproduct could be used for making soap? Or do you think I'd end up smelling like I've just changed the oil in my car, after taking my bath?

 

[Moonbear]

I thought agent orange did that.

I'll check at the fair for sheep's milk soap. They usually have at least 4 different soap vendors.

It was really nice. The funny thing is when I bought it, I had intended to give it as holiday gifts to folks in the lab because it was sheep's milk, not because I necessarily expected it to be great soap, but because we work with sheep and I thought it would be cute to do. But, it shipped a bit later than I expected, so I figured I'd hold onto it for the next year or another gift-giving occasion, but once I tried a bar for myself, I ended up keeping it all for myself.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Since when did hippies start bathing, anyway?

 

[Math Is Hard]

http://www.shop.edirectory.co.uk/presentfinder/1306/mig/d/trois+petits+cochons+three+little+pigs+scented+soaps+gianna+rose+atelier/pid/3999339

Here is the entire line of the soaps MIH.

http://www.giannarose.com/grastore.cfm?view=product&Category=animal&do=list

Thanks. I used to get my piggies at Neiman's but they don't have them anymore.

I simply MUST have some! I'll dress them in tiny little paisleys and plaid. Where ever did you find them? I'll trade you for 10 gallons of floor wax.

The "buy in bulk" concept isn't lost on you, I can tell! If that floor wax can double as a dessert topping, you have a deal.

 

[Math Is Hard]

We have a real pot bellied pig, and you definitely don't want to go and try and wash your self with her...

You have a pig? Do you have pictures? I want to see!

 

[Moonbear]

Since when did hippies start bathing, anyway?

They don't. That's why they sell all the soap they make and think it makes you feel funny and growing chakras or something.

 

[binzing]

There's a pic of my pig in one of the photo contest threads. I'll try to find it...
Unfortunately, by a cruel twist of fate (i.e. technological errors) I lost the photos of her as a piglet...When she was like 10 inches long and 10 pounds.

 

[binzing]

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=1631643&highlight=pig+Petunia+Ernie#post1631643
Here it is.

 

[Math Is Hard]

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=1631643&highlight=pig+Petunia+Ernie#post1631643
Here it is.

That is SOME PIG!

Is she as smart as a dog? I hear some are smarter.

 

[binzing]

She's hella smart, for sure. She's even bigger now. We need to figure out a way to trim her hooves as they are impeding her walking.