Anyone have a sulfate-free bar shampoo and bar conditioner they like? sulfates make me itchy and make my head a source of “snow”. I was gonna get lush stuff but apparently their shampoos have sulfates.
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What active ingredients work well in shampoo for you now?
My scalp tends to react to lots of stuff so I haven’t used liquid shampoo in years. I started using Hibar a couple months ago and I love it. No reaction on my skin and my hair feels amazing. The bar looks like it will last longer than previous shampoo bars I’ve used, too.
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I don’t remember the active ingredients but I use Jason shampoo. I think it maybe has aloe vera??
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Ethique!!
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OHHHHH, right right right right. I forgot that’s how the internet and storage and the internet works. Lord, my brain sometimes.
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Yep! Ethique has the same ingredient: Shampoo Products Containing Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate
And it’s on of the surfactants in my favourite liquid shampoo. I won’t need shampoo for a good 3+ months, but I might try ethique at that point. Or keep an eye out for that ingredient if I see solid bars at my local craft shows. Looking up shampoo ingredients is incredibly fun
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Would anyone else be interested in a Whole30 thread with an eye towards actually doing it after the holidays?
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Is a product like Biore Pore Perfect Strips actually good for your skin, or bad? If good, is there a mask product (any brand) that does something similar over the entire face?
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I don’t know if they are good or bad, but they are fun in a gross way so I say they’re good.
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I think they’re supposed to be neutral to bad? Like, they can enlarge the pores, but it’s usually transient, so probably negligible ultimately? That’s what I remember Reading anyway.
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I haven’t read the answers, but I think they are neutral. Oil cleansing and clay masks and exfoliating all suck your pores cleaner
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Hm, so maybe a better question is, does anyone have any recommendations for cleansing clay masks?
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One cheap option is to buy a small bottle of silicea https://www.makeupalley.com/product/showreview.asp/ItemId=121988/Hubner-Silica-Gel/No-Brand-(DIY-or-homemade)/Treatments
At your health food store. Ignore instructions for internal use. Smear a thin layer over your clean face, wash and moisturize your hands. When it’s dry, wash with water and either repeat or moisturize. (Hmmm I can do this pregnant, win!)
Or go to the packet masks section of your drugstore and buy a mask that is mostly just clay, maybe a bit of charcoal and start there. The fewer ingredients the better. If you buy dry clay you have to buy soooo much. A packet mask is.probably the lowest investment. You can take ingredient pictures of a few if you want me.to.weigh in.
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@FIFoFum ‘s journal reminded me to ask…
My husband has been using the oven and forgetting to turn it off. Several times in the last month or so. I usually catch it within a few minutes but sometimes it’s an hour or more and it’s starting to make me worry that one day I won’t notice and we’ll have a ridiculous utility bill and/or a house fire.
So the question is, we’ve been joking that when he leaves the oven on I should spray him with a squirt bottle. Should I actually do it next time, and if so should I give him a heads up? Or is there something else that might get him to actually remember? Each time he leaves the oven on I tell him about it using my words but that hasn’t translated into him remembering to turn the oven off so I’m interested in other options.
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What sort of things does your DH hate? Does he hate washing the dishes? Cleaning the litter box? Doing push-ups? Losing money (fire fund jar?)? I would try targeting something like that (after squirting him in the head with no warning as agreed).
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Maybe pushups in the snow would be memorable enough.
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Shirtless.
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When you notice the oven is on, do you turn it off and tell him about it, or do you tell him about it so he turns it off? If it’s the first, try doing the second. If he has to make the action it might stick better than just hearing about it.
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H does the same thing! I will be trying some of these tips to help him remember
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