"Look up", we are often told - An invitation to pause.
"Look up" to appreciate the wonders of the world. But what if, instead of looking up, we look down?
Don't have time to read?
Stop for a minute and sense the earthly vibrations beneath your feet. That isn't dirt you feel - it's life.
Soil is the living, breathing skin of the earth, and only the tiniest fraction of it is visible to the human eye. Soil hums with microbial activity. Listen. This is how it sounds.... Soil is home to a mind-blowing range of insects and animal life and all life above the ground.
But they won't work for free. They need food. They need love. They need care just like you and me. Living breathing creatures beneath your feet.
Where is the shampoo, Ezgi? :)
Ezgi's shampoo does not want to hurt the soil and all these living creatures within. Did you know that you can purchase a "Shampoo base formula" online? All you need to do is to mix some scents to make it your own. Who cares what's inside? But we use shampoo, body wash, and hand wash daily. Ingredients reach the soil more than any skincare product you use.
Ezgi's precious ingredients for the shampoo, which are not going to hurt the life beneath our feet, are about to arrive along with a steam distillation machine.
I feel like a child at a playground. My clove buds from Turkey are eagerly waiting for this machine.
A product for every personal care needs. That is my goal, and none of them will hurt anybody—the living creature within the soil or you.
They will do the opposite.
Heal.
They will heal the soil. They will heal you.
An example?
Red Clover.
I included this plant inside the Winter Solstice after reading so much about how it has been used to heal skin cancers. A herbalist from the 1800s used a cooked-down paste of this plant for the external treatment of skin cancers.
This plant smells and tastes so sweet. It soothes dry and irritable skin tissue. They say that when the skin is dry, it needs red clover, and I agree. It does wonders, especially for skin conditions that weep and crack, just like dry winter skin.
Healing.
All these ingredients. They heal the soil. They heal you.
None of them hurts anybody.
Look down.
Stop for a minute and sense the earthly vibrations beneath your feet. That isn't dirt you feel. It's life.
Protect what lies beneath.
with all my love,
Ezgi