FYI: yoganerdMD had weighed in with some good, level-headed advice:

fantastic! Thanks, doc!

hmmm, I wonder if those bumps are keratosis pilaris? There's a good discussion of that here. Or maybe milia? I wonder if that has to do with the lavender or with the remaining ingredients of the products or even with being hereditary.

OMG yes, the essential oil cult people! With their cancer-healing powers and "therapeutic grade" systems. Holy bananas. Makes people like me who dig EOs for smelling yummy look like nutters like them.

hi yoga nerd md, so I have a straight up, no snark question about the lavender essential oil. Does this mean I shouldn't use a body scrub or body lotion that has lavender in it bc it's an irritant?

I dislike beets, but I'm starring this because you made me smile. :)

Lavender oil or extract is a skin irritant. It doesn't bother me at all when used in tiny amounts in a body lotion or lip balm or perfume (and I freaking adore lavender lip balm), but I would not put straight lavender oil on my face.

I want to second another commenter's recommendation of Tarte's Lights Camera Lashes. Best vegan mascara I've found. (Also, I found that, for me, Josie Maran's argan oil mascara was a clumpy disaster giving a bad name to vegan beauty products. It made me angry that I bought it.)

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Soooooooo.... These conservatives WANT migrant women and girls to have "anchor babies"? (EW, it hurt just to type that term.)

cherry red purple hair! I LIKE it!

Hunh. That is sketchy. I don't really know what to make of that....

Oh, kool aid! Did you ever dye your hair with kool aid? Ah, high school!

I like the way you think! :)