Minty Fresh Sweat

Now here’s a tip anyone can use, compliments of my latest post-heated-yoga stupor, but just in time for the tropical summer heat that’s easing over most of the nation.   I was the veritable drip-hose of sweat at yoga last night, though I wasn’t alone in my uberdampness  (maybe it was the stormy weather).  It was disgusting to leave the class with every bit of clothing soaked down to my skin, but then I remembered my camping supplies and its stash of biodegradable hemp-oil soap–best of all, it was peppermint!  This stuff has seen a lot of camping trips and the inevitable bad weather that goes with camping, so I automatically associate the smell of the stuff with frostbite.  Mix cold weather with cold northern Minnesota lakes, or the most painful water-dip of all (which requires no peppermint soap to enhance the coolness), the streams of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, and you have a Near Death Experience.  In any case, I squeegeed myself home from yoga, wrung out my clothes, and took a bath with the amazing Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint Soap.  If you’ve never used the stuff before, it’s a religious experience.  Not only does it bring the dead back to life—or from heat stroke to hypothermia—but the label is a religious comedy.  The blog stops here (though I’ve been a bad blogger lately—my apologies—bad blog!  bad blog!).  It’s Dr. Bronner’s turn to write.  Please don’t strain your neck reading it.

~ by rebuildingholly on May 26, 2012.