I agree that Mrs. Meyers is really effective! Mine is lavender something, which is usually a scent I can handle. If anyone likes strong scents I highly recommend their all purpose!
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Hello, I need to find a new face cream/lotion thing and I know there are people here who know a lot more about skin care than I do. I’m looking for a good, all purpose, not insanely expensive lotion. Or cream. What’s the difference? I’ve never used a face cream with spf, but that would probably be a good idea?
I don’t pay much attention to my skin. It’s pretty average skin, I guess? Not dry and flaky or anything. Maybe a little oily around my nose? I’m 45. I spend a fair bit of time outside, especially in the summer. I’m pretty fair skinned, and the rest of my body tans easily but my face just alternates between pale and sunburned.
What I have used:
- pre age 21: whatever lotion I used on my body
- age 21-late 30s: Clinique Dramatically Different moisturizing lotion. It was fine. I tried an Oil of Olay bottle from the drugstore once in my 20s and remember hating it because it felt really oily and I think made me break out
- age 40-45: my mom took me to Sephora at age 40 and bought me Caudalie Resveratrol Lift Face Lifting Soft Cream. I guess it was better than the Clinique stuff? But I’m not really in tune with minor changes in my face, so I may not appreciate it. She would usually buy it for me as a gift for birthdays/Christmas so I’ve just been using that. But it’s been discontinued and also seemed really expensive, so it seems like I should take this opportunity to find something else.
I might just go back to Clinique, but I figured I’d check with the experts here and see if you had any recommendations.
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Several people recommended First Aid Beauty Ultimate Repair Cream and I think it’s pretty good. Unfortunately you missed an insanely good Black Friday deal on it!
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I’ve used Philosophy for many years and been happy. The thicker cream that I loved has been discontinued so I’ve been buying it on eBay but that’s going to end once there is no more. Lately I’ve been using their Purity Made Simple moisturizer which is pretty light but nice, not sticky at all to me. Hope in a Jar is probably a bit richer. There are others that I haven’t tried that I know are thicker/richer, I will have to try new ones when I cannot find my favorite any longer.
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CeraVe is an excellent, cheap drugstore brand! I swear by their face wash, and their cream and lotion are also very good.
My more expensive indulgence face lotion is from https://malezia.com. I like that it doesn’t leave a residue on me, and doesn’t seem to migrate and irritate my eyes.
I use a Eucerin hand cream which occasionally goes on my face when I’m lazy and already got in bed.
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Oh god. I just used the lavender sent because it was a hand refill. Nope nope nope.
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Y’all need to send me all this smelly stuff. I love it.
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Well I can’t cook over high heat because of the nonstick aspect (not supposed to) but honestly I wouldn’t anyway, anything over medium is blazing hot (maybe that is partially my new stove, which is gas, also). And because of the stainless aspect, for some foods you have to allow the food to release naturally as you would normal stainless, otherwise there will be sticking. If you let it release naturally it is beautiful and does not stick. It’s not a problem, just something to be aware of! I love them!
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I love Mrs Meyer’s but I 1000% can’t do any of the floral or citrus scents, they are all crazy strong. Right now my go-tos are Rain Water (I am not really sure what the scent actually is?) and Basil. They periodically change them, which is annoying because then I have to figure out what the new “good” for me all over again! They are always with blue or green labels though, never the pink or yellow or orange ones.
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Do you mean GreenPan?
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No, HexClad.
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Oh sorry I’m getting all these confused, haha, thank you!
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It is time for a new oven. I have a potential replacement in mind for pretty much every appliance we have except for the oven. The oven that came with our house is pretty bad. It is very uneven, doesn’t seem to have any function other than turbo fan bake, we’ve repaired it once when we should have replaced it and now it won’t heat at all. I think the time has come to get a new one.
But what the heck is going on with ovens. There are 1000 features. Some have airfrying functions? Pyrolytic? Steam ovens? Should I want any of that? The thing I want most is an oven that heats evenly with an option not to blast a cake with hot air?
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I don’t know if the industry terms vary between countries, but I definitely swear by convection ovens. That’s basically when there’s a fan that blows everything around in a nice little circles in it so that everything heats evenly and efficiently.
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Fan forced oven. I can take a picture of ours, if that helps, @Pancakes? I plan on keeping it when we renovate. It does heat a bit more in the back left corner but is easy to work around it.
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Does anyone have advice about heavier duty outdoor coats, ideally that are popular enough that I could get one used, that I can find in smaller sizes for women? Ideally in petite, but I might be dreaming too big. Thinking something down or down-adjacent, good in 20-40 F degree weather, that I can wear to walk my dog but also to a casual restaurant in Denver.
I know there are petite ladies out there that can pull off kids/teens sizing (I live with one of them), but it looks goofy on my proportions, unfortunately.
Tagging @Meowmalade who I know is a coat pro!
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What size are you? I have a Pajar Queens and I love it! I’m 5’2" and the sleeves are long but they have this stitching that it doesn’t look weird pulled up. Also the coat runs small, normally I wear a medium in clothes but a small in coats and I had to get a medium in this coat. Could have even gone to a large if I wanted to wear a bulky sweater!
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Thanks! Depending on the brand, either XXS or XS. Or a medium at Lululemon, lol. I am tiny shouldered.
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I’ve never tried shopping at Lululemon but now I think I must be an XL there 
Here’s an XS but no returns on Poshmark… I’ll keep an eye out at the Sierra physical store and see I find any in a smaller size!
Also looks like that one is real fur (I see the Sagafur tag). The ones at Sierra are faux fur trim.
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