Since I'm going to be in the woods anyway...

Background:
I've been sort of experimenting with making my own skin/wash products. I haven't yet reached the point of giving up on store bought soap, but I might be working in that direction. I really only use it on small areas, because I use scrub for most of my shizzz.

I've given up buying shower scrubs and using lotion from stores, opting instead to keep a pre-mixed jar of white sugar and olive oil in the shower and using that as a body scrub/moisturizer combo. Even on my face. Yes it makes a slippery mess, I keep a bottle of cheap shampoo for oily hair on hand in the shower and I drop some on the floor and kick it around a little to clean up the floor when I'm done oiling.
It works great and my notoriously dry itchy skin is just chilling these days. Oddly enough too, my face loves it. It's a bit much on the face when I get out of the shower, so I just take a little towel I keep for this purpose and give me face a firm wipe down the get the extra oil off. It will still feel different than you're used to, but give it 20 min and everything will be absorbed. Throughout the day, I end up not looking like a total greaseball the way I do when I use moisturizer from the store. I actually had my first breakout in a while this week, after using store lotion for the first time in ages. Coincidence? I think not.

I've also been using baking soda to wash my hair now and again. Just some baking soda dissolved in water, also kept handy in the shower, and I use it when I feel like my hair is getting greasy. I haven't totally joined the no-poo movement yet.

But.

I'm thinking that while I'm in Alaska, since I'm mos def NOT going to add the extra weight of carrying shampoo, nor would I wash with that crud in natural settings, since it is completely and wholly unnatural, and since I will have some baking soda for brushing my teefs anyway that I might go full out no-poo for the trip and see how it goes. My rational is thusly:

I'm going to be greasy and nasty one way or the other. When switching to no-poo, there can be an adjustment period while your hair freaks out and starts re-producing the oils shampoo kills out of it, so some people seem to notice they get greasy before things normalize. I do not wish to make this transition in polite society. I do not however mind the idea of forcing it on HN. He is used to this stuff by now, and plus with a sister who's a homeopath I will never be the most extreme case he's seen.

In addition to baking soda, there is stuff floating around out there about using ACV diluted as a rinse agent. I may give this one a trial go before heading out, and decide if it's going to be worth the trouble. With my new short hair, I might be able to get away with carrying around just a little bit to dilute when we find water to wash in. If I try it before I go and it works out, Ima get all up in it for the walk. (Note: I do not have my new short hair yet. I am getting it in Portland, with the help of Dr J)

I'll let you all know how it goes, I for one am on the edge of my seat!