Quote for the Day: About Bathrooms

“When you clean out your bathroom and make it all shiny and sparkly, you are telling your body that you are sacred. A dirty temple does not honor its patrons. When the disciple cleans the temple and the temple treasures, she is honoring herself as she honors her Deity. When you enter your bathroom as a sacred purification site, you want it to purify you; if it is filthy if will only make you feel wretched.”


- Kathryn L. Robyn Spiritual Housecleaning

21 Quick Clutter Fixes For Your Home

By Jessica Hoelzel

REDUCE the amount of STUFF you have and LIVE GREEN

NEW blog series: 21 Quick Clutter Fixes. Keep your eye on Day to Day Feng Shui for 21 ways to lighten your load by cutting out clutter bit-by-bit throughout your home. Plus, solutions that keep the environment top-of-mind, so you keep your waste-impact down.

Less Clutter = Healthy Home

Less Waste = Healthy World


In the Bathroom


12. Streamline personal care products. Body lotion, face lotion, day cream, night cream, eye cream, volumizer, smoothing serum, hold spray – woah. We have a lot goin’ on in the bathroom. Not always to our benefit. If you’re knocking into and tipping over products and not having space to store all those products or get ready easily, something’s gotta give. And not your sanity.

Like the closet, the bathroom is where we spend some time at the start and end of each day. In order for us to feel light and happy, we need the space to breath. We need our routines to be easy. Otherwise we go through the rest of our day or into the night feeling overwhelmed and burdened. As if we don’t have enough other stuff going on in life to overwhelm and burden us.

The solution is here: Read an earlier post for 3 ways to Keep Bathroom Clutter in Check, and go about it in an environmentally-minded way.

Keep Bathroom Clutter in Check

By Jessica Hoelzel

Are you seduced by personal care products? The promise to clear, hydrate, firm, shine, volumize, straighten, curl or what have you? We all succumb to the marketing of these products, and sometimes you do have to buy it to try it. But if a product (or products – multiplied) doesn’t work out, where does that leave you? With one more bottle or tube of something you won’t use, cluttering up your bathroom space.

I’ve seen showers that you cannot step into without creating an avalanche of bottles…The clutter is burdensome on us, and the excess consumption is burdensome on the environment. What I recommend is to keep things simple.

Here are three ways to make that happen:

1. Choose products that offer a small trial size. They won’t take up as much space, and if they don’t work for you, you’re not out much money. Their waste has less of an environmental impact too.

2. Use up what you have before you start using another. Make use of every last drop of that shampoo,
before you bring the next bottle into your shower. Simple.

3. Choose products that have multiple uses. Try Dr. Bronners multiple-use soap. Body wash, shampoo,
laundry detergent, and more – all in one (18 uses, in fact).

The bathroom is a place where you spend time at the beginning and end of your day. Make it neat and streamline, and you’ll feel unburdened and productive before you even leave the house. And at ease before you slip into bed at night…Nice for you and nice for our world.

Looking for natural personal care products? I recommend Young Living. Email me with questions or products you’re interested in. I’d be happy to let you know how you can place an order, and help you get the best deal.