A few weeks ago, I ran into the health food store for some kind of nice new soap, (being pregnant and using daddy's blue man soap seems extra depressing somehow)and I found one little dusty box that really intrigued me. It was SOAP made by Nag Champa, my favorite incense that I buy by the boxfuls everytime I can. I was so excited to think of smelling like incense that I bought it.
I went home and took a bath, (something that always sounds so nice but always ends up being lame because our bathtub is little and weird and the water drains out and the hot water runs out before you want it to and your imagined luxury turns into weird cold beached whale badness. But I digress!) and while I was semi-lounging (freezing and sort of stuck) in the bathtub, looking over my darling little new soap box with the intriguing (Indian?) sayings on it, and I noticed that it was quaintly called Beauty Soap. How innocent, to call it that. No big promises, just beauty! So cute. Now, mind you, this was like month 6 of me having the worst acne of my entire life, not even acne, more like burnt red bumpy face, and this thought crossed my mind, what if I washed my face with the beauty soap? Would it burn and be horrible? I thought of all the gorgeous Indian ladies who never seem to have acne and went for it, strong fragrance and all.
The very next day my skin was WAY clearer. I took out all the facial cleansers with all of their shelf-life extending chemicals and preservatives and poisons and replaced them with the humble little tan bar of Nag Champa. I wash my face with it morning and night, as well as the rest of myself, and I love it. I do not even wear foundation anymore, just a couple of dabs of concealer over some of the alarmingly dark marks from some old zits, and I have just good old skin on my face now, not some rugburnt freak out. It was such a nice surprise, this special little soap. If and when I see them again, I am buying them all up for friends and our family. Cheers to Nag Champa soap!
