Can Local Soap Rituals Really Align Your Chakras?

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A recent discussion highlighted an individual's experience at a local soap shop, where they encountered a loud, eccentric customer and a salesgirl promoting unconventional methods for selecting soaps based on "energy resonance." The individual, a science major, was pressured to participate in this ritual, leading to a humorous yet uncomfortable situation where they felt ostracized for rejecting the new age beliefs. The conversation evolved into a broader commentary on dealing with new age enthusiasts, with participants sharing strategies like avoidance, polite nodding, or sarcastic remarks when confronted with absurd claims. The thread also touched on the absurdity of some new age practices and beliefs, such as chakras and energy alignment, with anecdotes illustrating the challenges of engaging with such ideologies. Despite the awkwardness, the original poster appreciated the quality of the soap, leading to a light-hearted conclusion about balancing personal beliefs with social interactions in unconventional settings.
  • #61
Ivan Seeking said:
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...
 
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  • #62
Soap is hard. Buy it in 5 gallon tubs. Scent and flavor to taste.
 
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  • #63
Phrak said:
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. :biggrin: :smile:
 
  • #64
Moonbear said:
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. :biggrin: :smile:
Probably beats entomophagy :smile:
 
  • #65
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.
 
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  • #66
Phrak said:
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!
 
  • #67
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".
 
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  • #68
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:confused:
 
  • #69
Math Is Hard said:
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.
 
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  • #70
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
 
  • #71
Math Is Hard said:
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
 
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  • #72
edward said:
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:confused:
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 :biggrin:
In small doses candles are ok.
 
  • #73
We have a real pot bellied pig, and you definitely don't want to go and try and wash your self with her...
 
  • #74
I never stand on scented candles. Especially when they're lit.
 
  • #75
edward said:
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:confused:

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

:smile:

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.
 
  • #76
Kurdt said:
I never stand on scented candles. Especially when they're lit.

Jumping Jack Flash :smile:
Jack be nimble.
 
  • #77
Moonbear said:
:smile:

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.
 
  • #78
I would have to take some Benadryl.
 
  • #79
Here is the entire line of the soaps MIH.

http://www.giannarose.com/grastore.cfm?view=product&Category=animal&do=list
 
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  • #80
Evo said:
Oooh, I like Yankee Candle's "grass", it smells like new mown grass.

Ivan Seeking said:
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.
 
  • #81
Never trust a hippy candle labeled "grass".
 
  • #82
Kurdt said:
Never trust a hippy candle labeled "grass".

:smile::smile::smile: 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.
 
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  • #83
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.
 
  • #84
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.
 
  • #85
Ivan Seeking said:
:smile::smile::smile: 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.

:blushing:
 
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  • #86
OM, your in Oregon as well?
 
  • #87
binzing said:
OM, your in Oregon as well?

Native Orygoonian since 1959 =8)
 
  • #88
OmCheeto said:
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. :biggrin:

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. :frown:
 
  • #89
Evo said:
Oooh, I like Yankee Candle's "grass", it smells like new mown grass.

Sorry but newly mown grass reminds me of the cemetery...:rolleyes:
 
  • #90
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!
 

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