Pure and simple.

I may not have been blogging much in the last few weeks but I certainly have been doing some thinking. Turns out it would take me washing my hands for two hours, yep two hours steady contact with that anti bacterial soap on my fingers, to kill some of those germs. Yeah right! My son has just been learning hand washing at nursery. Rub that soap in and sing "Happy Birthday" twice. A good aim I feel and in our house, if I can get this soap recipe to work... a little on the watery side but hey it was a first go, then pure olive oil has got to be better for us.
Why am I so easily conditioned to believe that I need to be buying these products? Why am I so adjusted to consumerism?
And........ I have found myself in chats with folks in the last months about the amount we wash our hair. This weekend Karen, our hairdresser and a fab one at that, was appalled that I would be washing my kids hair as often. Once a week full stop. (Now our eczema creams come in to play as they do get into their hair but I am hearing her) And for me once or maybe twice a week unless I am sweating up a storm at the gym. (Me?) We are stripping out all the natural oil. Again I am really irritated that I would get so easily sucked in to this idea of progress with the increase in products available. It is not progress, and it may actually be damage, as we pour a pile of unnecessary junk in and around our bodies.
A friend who gave me a great clean green book last week ( I am thinking of holding some kind of green clean party where we can share ideas and learn!?) suggested to me this week that maybe the whole cleaning/products thing had a parallel in the spiritual with me. I laughed at the time but I think she was right. There is a deep desire in me for the simpler yet more effective in everything. It is hard for me to blog this well and there has been much back spacing in the last ten minutes.
So I pause here for some more thought................... .