Homemade 3 ingredient deodorant

Hello, friends! 

So as I mentioned last week, I’ve been working diligently to test out more natural (homemade) cleaning and health & beauty products. I started off this inquiry by switching almost all of my household cleaners for baking soda and vinegar. You can read about that here. 

Today I would like to share my recipe for very easy homemade natural deodorant. 

Natural Cleaning for Beginners

I’m becoming more and more intrigued by the concept of natural living as I progress into a more adult-like life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not about to go paleo or anything… I love grain and dairy (as you can tell from my posts of various recipes), but I am interested in taking simple steps to remove obvious chemicals from other areas of my life. 

Most of this change in my life is curiosity driven. I usually read a handful of articles and say to myself “Can you really clean your entire house without chemical-filled products? Those products surely exist for a reason; natural cleaning must be less effective. It must be! That’s it; I’m testing this B.S. and proving that it doesn’t work.” 

But you know what? So far, the things I’ve tested have worked shockingly well. 

The first thing I changed was the use of commercial cleaners for my home. I made this change for this little man: 

That's an Expensive Piece of Paper!

Look at what I did this week! 

That’s right, I have officially graduated with my Bachelor of Education, and can now become an Ontario Certified Teacher. 

Wildlife picture to window frame mirror, a DIY transformation

Well I undertook quite the project this weekend. I made my first tutorial video and uploaded it to YouTube. It has to do with cutting the glass for this week’s craftiness: 

See, it all started with this super ugly electrical box in the middle of my kitchen wall. I mean, it doesn’t even have a cover: 

So when I moved in, I hastily covered it with one of my DIY Sharpe-on-canvas pieces: 

For weeks I have been appalled at the dark, dungeon-like state of my little galley kitchen. Very little natural light to speak of. Only that which trickles in from the window in the dining room. I decided the best way to increase the natural lighting in this little cave was to add a mirror. And not just any mirror; no, in true Kneesh style, I wanted a DIY fancy window-like mirror. Something I could be proud of. Something like this: 

Mini Banana Cream Pies

Get ready to say yummm… 

Ready?? 

Bam! 

Ya, I did it. Mini banana cream pies. 

This recipe was actually crazy simple, and can be switched up to make any kind of cream pie. 

I used a sugar cookie mix for the crust. The package that I got had enough dough to make 2 dozen cookie crusts. 

The banana cream part is simply banana instant pudding, which is what makes this recipe great. You could use any kind of pudding to make different pies: chocolate cream pie, butterscotch pie, rice pudding pie (eww), lemon pie, etc. 

So, with those notes, let’s get to it! 

Ingredients: 

• 1 package sugar cookie mix (and whatever the package says you need to prepare the mix, usually an egg and a stick of butter) 
• 1 package of instant pudding in banana -or your choice of- flavour 
• 3 bananas, just ripe, maybe slightly speckled 
• Whipped cream topping 

Directions: 

Prepare your pudding as outlined by the packaging, and put it in the fridge to cool. 

Prepare your sugar cookie dough as outlined by the packaging. Now, according to some Pinterest pins, you can make cookie cups by flipping a cupcake tin upside-down and putting the cookie dough on top of the cups, like this: 

And here’s how that turned out: 

Not useful. 

So, with the remainder of the cookie dough, I flipped the cupcake tin right-side-up and put dough balls in the cups. I baked them according to the packaging directions, then pulled them out and, while they were still hot, I used the butt of my screw driver to make a well in each cookie. 

I then put the cookies back in the oven. I ended up baking them for about twice the length of time as the package called for. Pop them out and put them on a cooling rack.

Look at how cute these little cups are! You could even put raspberries or blueberries in there and call it a day! 

Anyways, I used a piping bag to fill each cup with pudding, but if you do not have a piping bag, you could just fill up a ziplock bag with your pudding and snip the corner off. 

Top the pudding with a slice of banana. 

And, of course, finish it off with a swirl of whipped cream! 

Then eat them all. They are so, so, so yummy! They would be perfect little finger food deserts for a party. Make a couple different types of pudding for some variety. Oh, you could make vanilla pies and chocolate pies and set them up like a checker board! Or, you could have a whole plate full of these bad boys! 

Have fun!