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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Snavel del Snuit on August 28, 2007, 10:59:20 am ---Does anybody here ever have those tiny blood vessels on your cheeks? I have a lot of freckles (that I have no problem with), but also some of the miniscule visible blood vessels, what can you do about it? We call it couperose... ???
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You can get them lasered, I guess. I haven't had it done, but I've heard of it.
--- Quote from: opinionista on July 10, 2007, 01:07:43 pm ---Yes it is, partly because it got lots of vitamin E. That's the only oil I use for cooking but it is best if you use the extra virgin.
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There was a piece in the New Yorker recently about how a lot of the olive oil that gets sold as extra-virgin is actually not even olive oil, it's other kinds of oil mixed with a little olive. It's illegal to sell this, but apparently it happens a lot. I've always been kind of suspicious of those cheaper EVOOs ...
Back to cosmetics brands, my most trusted one is Paula's Choice, http://www.cosmeticscop.com/. It's made by Paula Begoun, the author of Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me and other books that investigate cosmetics ingredients and reveal, as Cameron said, that there often is little if any difference between the ingredients in expensive department store brands and cheap drugstore brands. The main difference is in how they're packaged and marketed.
Anyway, Paula's Choice stuff is fragrance-free (which I love), reasonably priced, simply packaged, and as effective as those products ever are. I really trust them because I trust her. You'll almost never see her interviewed in a magazine, because she reveals how much of cosmetic companies' claims are just marketing schemes (and magazines depend on cosmetics industry advertising).
opinionista:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on August 29, 2007, 06:49:27 pm ---There was a piece in the New Yorker recently about how a lot of the olive oil that gets sold as extra-virgin is actually not even olive oil, it's other kinds of oil mixed with a little olive. It's illegal to sell this, but apparently it happens a lot. I've always been kind of suspicious of those cheaper EVOOs ...
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I'm in Spain so I suppose here we are more likely to get actual olive oil since it is a local product. However, there have been problems with it too. You have to be careful. I have a friend whose family grows olives and exchange them for freshly pressed oil. She often gives me some, and it tastes very different to the ones sold in supermarkets.
serious crayons:
When they came out with Pam -- cooking oil in an aerosol can, which you spray on pans so the food won't stick -- in an extra-virgin olive oil variety, I got pretty suspicious. >:(
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 09, 2007, 04:15:24 pm ---Lately, I am in love with Boots' Vitamin Recovery mask. I apply it almost every nite and I leave it on all nite, I don't rinse it off. It blends into the skin, it is not like a mask. The next day my skin feels so great! I love almost anything by Boots, The Body Shop, or Lush.
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Cameron, did you try this? How did you like it?? I'm dying to know!
Kelda:
Natali - when i was in Crete the olive oil was amazing - apparently its the biggest producer of olive oil
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