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Cold Showers
Aug. 26th, 2009 12:32 pmIt is summer. It is hot, and muggy, and I live in a house without air conditioning, and I work out. The practical upshot of this is that I wind up hot, sweaty, and borderline miserable on a fairly regular basis.
Thankfully, many years ago Lush used to sell what they called 'Cold Showers' - little single-shower-sized plastic-wrapped freezeable blisters of their shower gels that you stored in your freezer. On hot, miserable days they are a godsend. Unfortunately, they don't make them anymore, and thus I have been hoarding my stash and rationing them out slowly and grudgingly, hoping to make them last.
Until last week, when I was taking one out of the freezer and simultaneously mourning the fact that I'd have one less round of blissfully icy suds and fighting angrily with the packaging, and I realized that what I had in my hand was, functionally, an ice cube. Why couldn't I just make these myself? I thought. Then I wouldn't ever have to run out, and I could make them out of anything I wanted to. And I wouldn't have to fight to try to peel sticky plastic wrap off the damn things while they melted in my hand.
I figured there had to be some reason it wouldn't work. They probably had to put something into the gel to make it freeze properly, or something like that. But I decided to try, with a new ice cube tray and an old container of shower gel that wasn't my favorite, just in case it didn't work.
It worked perfectly.
So, if you're looking for a way to cool off in a heinously steamy summer, or if you just feel like fooling around and playing with new ideas, freeze your shower gel. One standard ice cube is about perfect for one person, and it's hella easy. Heck, even if you're not living through an oppressive heat wave, it's worth trying, just for the fun factor....
Thankfully, many years ago Lush used to sell what they called 'Cold Showers' - little single-shower-sized plastic-wrapped freezeable blisters of their shower gels that you stored in your freezer. On hot, miserable days they are a godsend. Unfortunately, they don't make them anymore, and thus I have been hoarding my stash and rationing them out slowly and grudgingly, hoping to make them last.
Until last week, when I was taking one out of the freezer and simultaneously mourning the fact that I'd have one less round of blissfully icy suds and fighting angrily with the packaging, and I realized that what I had in my hand was, functionally, an ice cube. Why couldn't I just make these myself? I thought. Then I wouldn't ever have to run out, and I could make them out of anything I wanted to. And I wouldn't have to fight to try to peel sticky plastic wrap off the damn things while they melted in my hand.
I figured there had to be some reason it wouldn't work. They probably had to put something into the gel to make it freeze properly, or something like that. But I decided to try, with a new ice cube tray and an old container of shower gel that wasn't my favorite, just in case it didn't work.
It worked perfectly.
So, if you're looking for a way to cool off in a heinously steamy summer, or if you just feel like fooling around and playing with new ideas, freeze your shower gel. One standard ice cube is about perfect for one person, and it's hella easy. Heck, even if you're not living through an oppressive heat wave, it's worth trying, just for the fun factor....
