Ha, no, seriously, I’m 41 years old now and have used everything from noxema as a kid (shudder), to plain olive-oil based soap to super duper fancy organic soap-free cleansers from Eminence (this is the one I currently use, along with their rhubarb and strawberry seed dermafoliant). I never wear makeup on my skin…

Watch the entire run of Leverage and take notes.

I second the thing about sulfate-free! I have extremely dry hair & skin that’s pretty sensitive, and I noticed in my early teens that Herbal Essences made my hair fall out. Eventually after switching brands a few times I figured out it was the sulfates. I haven't used shampoo with sulfates or other strong surfactants…

Oh, boy, the talc thing. Here’s what you need to know.

It’s one of the more expensive ones, but the Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo has been a total game-changer for me. It actually massages/brushes out after absorbing the oil at your roots. I’d be interested to see if overuse would cause this same reaction, but I’d imagine not, because it leaves virtually no…

And its also only linked to ovarian cancer when you use it daily on your genitals.

As a twice-a-week shampooer, I use dry shampoo sometimes. But sparingly and only on my bangs. I’ve found using a brush to “distribute” the oil through my hair down to the ends on that last day before shampooing works just as well. Yes, I realize how gross that sounds, but as someone with long, courser hair, I can’t…

Khazan also says that training your hair to get less oily by washing it less is a myth according to an actual dermatologist. If you have an oily scalp, you have an oily scalp. (As an amateur hair-haver, I disagree. I made the transition to washing less, which was harrowing, but worth the journey.)

The punishment for sex offenses is not public execution. The process against someone carrying an illegal weapon does not involve murdering them. The facts you are bringing up are irrelevant to this story because they have nothing to do with getting gunned down by two policemen who probably won’t even be questioned…

Disagree. I work in healthcare and have for 10 years and I have the least seniority in my section, because there are two of us and the other one has been there for over 20.

because i never felt good about it in the morning. when im sober i have NO desire to sleep around. like zero. (ive been sober a little over 2 years and i have had sex exactly two times since, and one of those times was with my long term ex boyfriend). since getting sober ive realized there was a lot of stuff i did…

that’s actually called a ‘brown out’ i learned that in the required alcohol EDU thing i had to do my freshman year of college.

Why does everyone think Hillary Clinton runs her own IT? I’d seriously like to know. Does she not have enough work to do so she sets up servers on the side? Is it a relaxing hobby? Or maybe she just signs off on shit her IT people suggest like most people in her position would do.

There were a few stories but the school effectively kept the press out. That's part of why you pay the big bucks for private school. They did a great job of protecting the girls.

Antibiotics and Antifungals are different things. We probably abuse those too.

I’m reminded of the forty-second revolt I wanted to have when I got my uniform in lacrosse.

I love tennis skirts with shorts under! Also, I love the completely inelegant way we all shove balls up our skirts while playing.

Off topic, but skorts have been a lifesaver for me in dealing with my three year old daughter’s sudden and intense aversion to pants. She wants to wear a “beautiful dress!” at all times, but will compromise and wear a skirt. So I make sure all of her skirts are actually skorts et voilà, she’s not flashing everyone at…

Ugh. The tragedy that was high school tennis. Our last rotation was a choice of either “free” baseball or track and tennis. I loathe running and always have but the idea of being on an isolated baseball diamond without adult supervision and no less than 5 people perfectly willing to hit me with a bat made me give it a…

Hey, don’t diss the skort. The newer versions have kind of bike-pant-style shorts that are a godsend to chub-rub victims like myself. I’m by no means a frilly girly-girl, but I vastly prefer my skort to the too-baggy or too-micro shorts.