Homemade shampoo, warming muscle rub and chicken soup

I have been looking for a homemade shampoo recipe for like ever. Unfortunately I will continue to look. The one I a made though may be really great for dry damaged hair so I thought I would share it. Since I made a bottle of it I am going to continue to use it once a week as a conditioner.

Shampoo
1 cup coconut milk
1/4 castile soap ( I like Dr Bonners and any scent will due)
a few drops of your favorite essential oil ( I used rosemary)

Put in a container and shake with each use. Use the same amount as you normally do.

I will probably give this another try and use the light coconut milk instead of the full fat.


I could eat soup every day. This cooler weather has me wanting to make every soup  I see on Pinterest. Last night we had the simplest chicken noodles soup ever and it was cheap! I made a small batch. It would server 4 people but three of us ate it and just had bigger bowls. You know its a hit when your hubby asks if there was any leftovers to take in his lunch.

Chicken Noodle Soup

1 cup of cooked chopped chicken
32oz of chicken stock or broth
2 cups of mixed veggies or you could just use peas and or carrots.
3 oz of vermicelli pasta broken in to 2 inch pieces.
1 Tablespoon butter
2 Tablespoons flour or seasoned flour

Place your soup pan on the burner and turn on med high heat. Add butter and once it starts getting soft add the flour making sure you get it all mixed in well. Start adding about a cup of the stock and whisk to make sure there are no lumps. Add remaining stock and throw in the rest of the ingredients and simmer until pasta is done. Usually in about 10-15 minutes.

When I calculated the cost of this meal with my ingredients I had gotten on sale it was less than $5 to feed us and that includes the addition of crackers. I will make more for my hubby to take in his lunch. I think eating a home cooked lunch for a little over a dollar is much better than running through a drive thru.

A few months ago I pulled a muscle in my neck. Its was crazy. I had to turn my whole body to see things. After a week of that and lots of neck yoga it got better. Who knew sleeping could be so dangerous?  Monday morning when I woke up with a stiff neck again I decided that maybe neck yoga needed to be an every day practice and that I should make up a muscle rub. You can find some neck yoga exercises on youtube. You can find the muscle rub recipe below.

Muscle Rub

1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup coconut oil
1 Tablespoon beeswax
20 drops of each of these essential oils peppermint, eucalyptus, clove, ginger and black pepper. If you have a hard time finding the ginger or the pepper you can add 1/4 teaspoon of ground. I had those oils so I can not say if the ground is as good or better,

Place a jar that will at least hold 1/2 cup in a pan with water around it. put coconut, olive oil and beeswax in the jar and heat water until they are melted. Then add the essential oils and let cool, You could probably use a microwave to do this but I dont have one.

Sorry there are no pics with this post. Things are not cooperating this morning. Have a great day and dont let the little things get to you.


Lots of Love

Mrs Ladybug