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Ingredients (L to R, back to front): Coconut oil, apple cider vinegar, arrowroot powder, aloe vera gel, baking soda, tea tree oil, lavender essential oil, shea butter, vitamin E oil, cocoa butter, lemongrass essential oil, and beeswax. I already had a couple of these ingredients on hand, I just had to wait for my order from Mountain Rose Herbs to arrive the other day to make my concoctions possible.  I will tell you at the bottom what I'm making.  Hint: these items are for 5 different products, some with overlapping ingredients. For the past several months I have been on a journey to change my eating habits.  After my dad who is a vegetarian had to have a triple bypass, my sister & I pretty much had the same reaction of, "What the heck?"  If that can happen to someone with our dad's eating habits, then something is amiss.  We started studying Ayurveda (5000 year old Indian health science).  I had also simultaneously come across a wealth of research on

Job update--I am still working 2 1/2 weeks into August, but I am working half days.  It has turned out to be a great solution for me.  :) In other news Shauna Niequist, who's book Cold Tangerines I have quoted a few times recently, has another book Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way  and it is $3.99 for the Kindle right now.  I don't know how long the sale will last, so if you're interested get it now!  :)  I haven't read it yet, but if Cold Tangerines is any indication, I will love this one as well.