Daily tip #7| The saturday aftermath

Aaah, saturdays! You wake up to a beautiful green morning of lazyness. Unless you like to go out and drink on friday..

If you haven't read my friday's tip, here it is. If you've read it and still went out to get a nasty hangover, shame on you. But since you're here, I suppose I'll help you nonetheless..

Hangovers, aren't they nasty? You shouldn't care, because if you've read my past article, you should realise, that drinking is not a great activity.

First of all.. What exactly is a 'hangover'? A 'hangover' is your body trying to get out the poison (alchohol) out of it. All the throwing up and the headaches are direct signals from your body to YOU, telling you STOP WHY ARE YOU POISONING YOURSELF? After a long night it might start cussing too.



The first and most important tip is to drink water.  Dehydration is very likely after a night out drinking session. The majority of the effects of any hangover come from the dehydration of your body, caused by alchohol and caffeine. So if you're planning to attend a wedding, or a birthday which you can't miss and you know you'll be talked into drinking, you should start preparing yourself.



Drink loads of water. Water helps with dehydration and will lessen its effect when it does happen. You should be drinking over 2.5 litres of water a day. Research tells that water is what the body needs to function properly, from your brain working properly, to cleaning your body.



Eat something. Eating  something  before drinking should ease the effects of alchohol. If you like to drink more than on occasion, you probably knew that drinking on an empty stomach is not a good idea.


Do not take pain killers. Alchohol plus medicine might equal death. Wait until the day after to take any medicine (probably pain reducing, won't it be?).


Stop drinking. Stop drinking at least an hour and a half before going to sleep so your body could atleast try to get some of the alchohol out of your system before you crash.

Just STOP. You really shouldn't drink as much as the others do, do you? Are they literally forcing it down your throat? They might be encouraging you, but you have your own head on your shoulders, they shouldn't think for you. By the way,  if they are actually forcing it down your throat, you should find new friends.



These are the tips. I recommend you don't drink enough to get a hangover. If you're at an event, a few glasses of wine or beer out of respect for the organizer are fine. Well, unless you attend something like that everyday.

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Daily tip #6| Favourite day friday

It's friday!What's the most beloved activity to do on friday? You've guessed it, it's to have a drink.

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Daily tip #5| Cheap shampoo

Lets talk shampoo.. Most shampoos are with high toxicity. I have an alternative.

As to no surprise, the shampoos which score low on the toxic index, are up in the sky on the price. What should you do if you want a healthier and cheaper alternative?

I can suggest something.. Baking soda. Yes. Baking soda. All you need is 1/8th of a cup of baking soda mixed with warm water for washing your hair (once). That's right, it's less than $1 for a box, so one washing is literally pennies!



I was skeptic about this, why didn't I know about this before if it's so magical? The scientific thing behind it is that it's rough texture scrubs the dirt and oils without destroying your natural skin oils.



Normal shampoo strips your head of natural oils, and its toxins can even get into your blood stream. After finding an alternative, I thought  'Yeah, I'll take a risk, what's the worst that could happen?' Well, I could end up with sticky oily hair for a week, or perhaps even bold, but nonetheless..

The first week.. My head felt kind of dry, so I've read up more on it. I found a suggestion that if you use 1/2 cup of vinegar into the baking soda it will ease the dryness.. Supposedly.



.. And it worked! It was amazing! How could you not be stunned after finding such an amazing, all-natural and literally pennies costing alternative to that expensive and high toxic shampoo and conditioner? I was very pleasantly surprised..


..Turns out it was true, you can truly have silky-smooth hair in a natural and (almost) free way.



I suggest you (wo)man up and try this! Please post your experiences in the comments and encourage others!

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