As I may have mentioned in a previous post, I am a Product Junkie. I love lotions, potions, serums, soaps, etc. However, what I really want is The Perfect Whatever so I can be settled on that one thing and not fool around with anything else. Unless something new and exciting happens along, but whatev. I am also sort of a conservationist (despite the Ford F-150) and try to use all natural things, or at the very least things that are less toxic to the planet.

I have found The Perfect Shower Gel in this:

I buy the unscented kind so that I can mix perfume of my own with it, but it comes in Lavender, Peppermint, Rose and Almond. Probably others as well, but those are the ones I can remember. It works beautifully – it’s moisturizing but not too, it’s gentle and it doesn’t leave shmutz around my tub. It’s also fairly inexpensive as you can get 2- 32 ounce bottles for just fewer than $23.

The bottle says it’s the only thing you’ll ever need and gives you excellent instructions on how to take what is sometimes affectionately known as a “ho bath.” I recommend taking a proper shower (as you know!) but Dr. B’s soap is pretty fab. I also use it as hand soap at the bathroom sink. (In the kitchen, I just use dish soap but I always lotion up afterwards!) I have washed my face with it, to no ill effect, but I have pretty oily skin & it made me slightly dry, so I wouldn’t recommend making a habit of that. In a pinch, though, it should be okay.

I read someone else say they brush their teeth with it. I have to say, I haven’t done that. I’m fond of the UltraBrite I’ve been using off and on since high school.

Then I read that someone washes her hair with Dr. Bronner’s. Shampoo is the one thing I spend a freaking fortune on because my hair is so weird, but I thought, “Why not try it?”

I’m glad I tried it so that you don’t have to do such things to your hair. My hair is thick and semi-curly but, oddly, fine rather than course. Dr. Bronner’s as shampoo made my hair course and rough. The writer said she mixed it with baking soda and never had to use another conditioner again, so I tried that. No luck. Don’t try this at home, darling. Unless you like the “my hair is hay” feeling.

I have, however, found The Perfect Shampoo. More accurately, The Perfect Cleansing Conditioner and that is:

It’s not cheap, loves, but … It. Is. Fabulous. I have hard water where I live and it made a wreck of my hair. I was ready to move because of my hair! (Yes, I am that vain.)

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that no good can come out of H1N1. I had H1N1 at Christmas time and *two* good things came of it. 1) I watched an Elvis movie marathon on some cable channel and 2) I watched an informercial for Wen.

I know, I know, an informercial. I’m a freak, I know, because I *love* infomercials! I’ve bought more things from infomercials than I can to tell you, some good, some not. (Bare Minerals = awesome, Proactiv = just so-so.) But this! This is AMAZING. So much so that after having my bottle of Wen for a week or so, I went right to *their* website directly and bought a GALLON of it. Yes, really. I have a gallon of it! Of course, I can’t put a gallon in my shower very easily, so I put it in smaller bottles. In case you were wondering.

So foxy femmes, what’s your perfect, can’t live without it beauty product? My sweet, sexy butches, do you have one? Perhaps not “beauty” product, but “grooming product for the studly?” Tell me what I might be missing!