Well, if you mean you are putting petrolatum or paraffin (not petroleum, obviously) on you lips and it can dry them out, that’s because it’s a barrier substance, not a moisturiser. It does that unless you combine it with a moisturising agent, which most hand creams that use it do. It’s a preventative, not a treatment.

Whilst this is a well written and thought out piece, I think if you were to engage Christian creationists (who are the dominant flavor in our current times) it would come up against the same disbelief as evolutionary science does, because it and geological science approaches involve micro and macro scale views of the…

The EWG are borderline food-babes so I smell woo-reactionary-bullshit.

Most makeup that brands itself as “natural” just calls some of the chemicals it uses more “natural” names, charges more, uses different colours on their packaging, and heavier perfumes. The Body Shop is a classic example of this. Not saying don’t buy products you don’t feel comfortable with, but just use common sense…

How... does that work? Sorry I am just wondering because we live in a world everything - including electronics which I am assuming you are using to make this post, it made from petroleum. Do you only wear hemp clothes? How do you avoid plastics everywhere?

If you want to get rid of it, you can dissolve it with other oil substances, like tea tree oil.

That’s what it’s supposed to do. It’s a barrier substance, not an actual moisturiser. Some moisturisers (Nivea comes to mind) use it in their super-dry formulations in combination with other products, but it’s still in there as a barrier substance to stop the skin drying as fast.

skincare professional

In terms of simple barrier treatment for skin conditions, it really is the shit. We used to go through buckets of this stuff in the hospital. I’d swear some of the nurses must have been eating it, or taking it home for their kids.

And white. Nobody calls beautiful chola girls androgynous, only white ladies like Gwent Stefani when they misappropriate it.

Sadly the technical definition is frequently ignored when it’s non-dfab people dressing in feminine clothes.

And thin.

No, that is exactly the case. Women wearing “mens clothes” is valorised in society as “androgynous” but the opposite is well, the opposite.

I know plenty of fat women with big breaststroke who wear Peter pan collars because they dgaf.

It doesn’t matter.

Be real nice if “androgynous” wasn’t code for “masculine”.

Do you think that setting a food item on fire accurately measures how much energy our bodies extract from a food item?

Someone do a Zola gift register for the Red Wedding, please.

If it had pineapple on it, it could probably start a war.