#Health Impact

[indizombie]

Common issues with traditional makeup include waste, product contamination, and harmful ingredients. Not only can these issues impact the planet, but they can also be detrimental to your well-being, causing everything from skin irritation to more serious health issues. For example, some cosmetic companies still use formaldehyde in their products, which is a widely-known carcinogen. You should also check the expiration dates of all of your cosmetics. Expired makeup can cause skin problems, and might even irritate your eyes – which can become dangerous, especially if you recently had something like laser eye (LASIK) surgery since the area is typically sensitive to certain chemicals and substances.

Charlie Fletcher, ‘The Environmental and Health Impacts of the Cosmetic Industry’, Earth.org

[dynamichealthinsights]

The Processed Carb Conundrum: Unveiling the Stealthy Saboteur of Long-Term Health

In our fast-paced, convenience-driven world, processed carbohydrates have become an insidious staple in our diets. From the seemingly innocent slice of white bread to the alluringly sweet pastry, these culinary creations, often stripped of their nutritional value, can wreak havoc on our health over time. Let’s embark on an illuminating journey to uncover the intricate relationship between…

[familythings]

The Negative Health Impacts of Air Conditioning

Air conditioning has become a staple in modern life, providing comfort in our homes, offices, and cars, especially during the hot summer months. However, while it offers relief from the heat, air conditioning can also have several adverse effects on our health. Understanding these potential health impacts can help us use air conditioning more responsibly and minimize its negative…

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Honoring the Legacy of Don Bailey: A Champion of Physical Activity and Research

[smarteatinghabits]

Join us in demystifying Potassium Bromate (E924)! Discover the common names it hides behind on food labels and understand the potential health repercussions. Stay informed, stay healthy! #FoodSafety #E924Revealed #HealthWellness #PotassiumBromate https://www.smarteatinghabits.com/potassium-bromate-e924-unveiling-common-names-and-health-impact/

[cleanair608]

Howo to Protect Your Skin From Pollution 

In our fast-paced urban lives, we often find ourselves battling against the invisible enemy: air pollution. It's not just our lungs that suffer; our skin also bears the brunt of pollution's harmful effects. 

As we approach the vibrant festival season, our excitement grows exponentially. The joy of celebration, the dazzling lights, and the delicious treats all paint a picture of happiness. Yet, there's another aspect of this season that often gets overshadowed - the spike in pollution levels. The air we breathe during these festivities is often laden with harmful particles and pollutants, which can take a toll on our skin's health and appearance.

The good news is that you can take some proactive steps to safeguard your skin. 

Impact of Pollution on Skin

Air pollution is a complex mixture of fine particles and toxic gases that can wreak havoc on your skin. Here are some of the ways it can harm your complexion:

Premature Aging: Pollutants can break down collagen and elastin, leading to wrinkles and fine lines.

Clogged Pores: Tiny particles can lodge in your pores, causing acne and blackheads.

Skin Sensitivity: Pollution can trigger inflammation and exacerbate conditions like eczema and rosacea.

Uneven Skin Tone: Exposure to pollution can lead to hyperpigmentation and a dull complexion.

Tips for Healthy Skin in Polluted Environments

In addition to using the Avata Air Purifier, here are some tips to keep your skin healthy in polluted environments:

Double Cleansing: Cleanse your face thoroughly to remove pollutants and makeup.

Antioxidant Serums: Use serums rich in antioxidants like vitamin C to neutralize free radicals.

SPF Protection: Apply sunscreen daily to shield your skin from UV rays that can worsen pollution's effects.

Hydration: Keep your skin hydrated with a good moisturizer to maintain its natural barrier.

Air purifier: Air purifiers are essential for creating a clean and healthy indoor environment, which directly benefits the health and appearance of your skin. By removing pollutants and allergens from the air, air purifiers help protect your skin from the adverse effects of pollution, promoting a clearer, more radiant complexion.

How Avata Air helps?

The Avata Air Purifier is your shield against the adverse effects of air pollution.

Here's how it can help you protect your skin:

Removes Airborne Pollutants: Avata's advanced filtration system can efficiently remove particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, and other harmful pollutants, ensuring cleaner indoor air.

Reduces Allergens: By trapping allergens like dust and pollen, Avata helps prevent skin reactions and allergies.

Maintains Optimal Humidity: Avata can also control indoor humidity, preventing dry skin, which is more susceptible to pollution-induced damage.

Reduces Skin Irritations: By trapping allergens and pollutants, Avata minimizes the risk of skin allergies, redness, and irritation. This ensures that your skin remains calm and free from festival-induced sensitivities.

Delays Aging Effects: Avata's ability to remove pollutants contributes to maintaining the vitality of your skin. It helps in slowing down the aging process and keeps your skin looking youthful and radiant.

Promotes Skin Hydration: With its capacity to control indoor humidity, Avata ensures that your skin remains adequately hydrated, preventing dryness, flakiness, and the associated vulnerability to pollution-induced skin damage.

Conclusion

As the festive season approaches, prioritizing your skin's well-being amidst rising pollution levels is essential. 

By choosing to invest in the Avata Air Purifier, you take a significant step towards safeguarding your skin's health and appearance. Clean, fresh air within your home is the foundation of maintaining that radiant, festival-ready complexion. So, this season, let the festival of lights shine on your skin, and make it truly luminous with the protection of Avata Air Purifier.

[ecoamerica]

Watch the 2024 American Climate Leadership Awards for High School Students now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C-bb9PoRLc

@ecoamerica was excited to announce the ACLA24 High School Student winner, Adah Crandall! Early high school graduate Adah is a climate justice organizer who focuses on the intersection of climate and transportation. Watch the student finalists, Aishah-Nyeta Brown, Jerome Foster II, and more in the ACLA24 for High School Students Broadcast Recording!

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Skin Picking

AJ’s Brain

[mostly-natm]

What could’ve been if Noonien Soong had actually programmed his sons with relatively healthy coping mechanisms that don’t include murder.

[dynamichealthinsights]

How Pre-Packaged Desserts Can Affect Your Health

Pre-packaged desserts are a staple in modern diets. With busy lifestyles and the convenience of ready-made options, these sweet treats are often the go-to for a quick indulgence. However, the ease with which they are consumed belies the health risks they pose. This article delves deep into how pre-packaged desserts can affect your health, exploring their nutritional deficiencies, hidden…

[kimtaegis]

LILACS BY THE SEA a music collection curated for @cordiallyfuturedwight Lilacs (Kayla) Playlist • Sea (Seokjin) Playlist song notes

cr. mahoneysuga, rawpixel, bts-trans, Diana Zviedrienė

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Embracing Health, Wellness, and Legacy with Don Bailey

[risustravelogue]

Gifts of A Kind

Summary:

His love for you is the gift he's offering.

Featuring:

Zhongli, Alhaitham, Wriothesley

Tags:

Emotional hurt/comfort, love confessions, self-indulgent, reader has mental health issues and huge insecurity about her worthiness of being loved. Fem!Reader (referred to as a woman) who is having her birthday!

Note:

Me: Happy birthday to me! 🥳 Also me: *writes an emotional hurt/comfort piece with my favorites to cry* Haha. Also, I'm resting from the 1-week EBG grind, so have this for now. As always, enjoy~

🔗 AO3 | masterlist 🔗

It’s another busy day at Bubu Pharmacy.

Sorting the medicinal ingredients in one of the back rooms, you were humming to yourself when a familiar baritone voice came from behind you.

“Happy birthday.”

You turn around to find your crush, the handsome consultant of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, walking towards you with a huge bouquet of silk flowers, dotted with the biggest glaze lilies you’ve ever seen in your life.

“Zhongli! You remembered!” you squeal.

When the man you fancy remembers your birthday, you say thanks to Celestia above. Especially when he’s actually Liyue’s beloved archon.

—This is fine. He can never be mine, but I can have my small joys, can’t I?

“I have a gift for you,” he says with a playful lilt to his voice as he hands over the bouquet to you.

“You mean this pretty thing?”

He smiles. “No. It’s a surprise. Close your eyes.”

You obey. Your heart thumps with anticipation. Maybe you’re finally getting that cute hairclip you’ve been eyeing for a while? Or maybe…

Your thoughts dissolve into thin air when you feel a soft warmth pressing against your lips and the scent of his cologne entering your sense of smell. Your eyes flutter open to find your vision filled with him.

But it’s not joy you feel inside your chest—it’s dread.

You struggle in protest, only for him to snake his left arm around you and press his lips harder against yours. He takes the bouquet away from your hands and sets it on the table behind you while nipping at your lower lip, as if asking for permission. You put your hands on his chest and push him away, breathless.

“Why are you doing this?” you ask.

Zhongli blinks, surprised.

“I thought you wanted it. Was I wrong?”

You shake your head and offer him a frown. “Why?”

“Is that not obvious? I love you.”

—What?

“What did you just say?”

He smiles as he repeats, “I love you.”

“... Heh,” you chuckle, and it turns into a full-blown laughter. “You’re lying. You wouldn’t.”

He only stares into your eyes with those golden pupils of his, his soft expression still like the mountains. You shake your head, dispersing the thoughts that maybe, just maybe—

“No,” you say, shaking your head. “No one would, especially not you.”

You feel his left hand clench at the small of your back as his expression hardens. “Why not?” he asks.

A bitter smile grows on your lips. “You know why. I’m—you know. I’ll only be a burden for you. For anyone.”

“I can bear it, and you know that.”

“But I’m—I’m defective and you know it!” you shout, pushing him away to no avail. His eyes widen, his heart taken aback at how much you must have hurt. You feel your chest clench as you mutter, “I am not the right person for you.”

Zhongli sighs and caresses your cheek, so gently as if you are the most fragile piece of porcelain he has ever held.

“Listen. No one is perfect. Not even me. And you… you awaken something I have never felt in the thousands of years of my life. And I want—”

His lips quirk to form a painful smile.

“I want to keep you by my side, for as long as I am allowed.”

You chuckle bitterly as you slap his hand away.

“Stop it. I don’t want this. I don’t—you’re mistaken. You don’t love me. You can’t.”

Tears roll down your cheek as your fingers clench on the fabric of his suit.

“Please… you can’t.”

A heavy silence hangs between you. His fingers find their way under your chin, tilting your face up towards him.

“Look at me,” he whispers. You shut your eyes in defiance, and you can feel tears dripping down your chin.

“You are the kindest woman I know, and have a strength beyond what even most gods can comprehend. And please believe me when I say I have never met anyone like you in my life,” he says, his voice gentle like you’ve never heard before. You open your eyes to find his gaze looking softly into yours.

“I love you. I will be yours if you want me to.”

He smiles, and you can feel your heart melt.

“Let me be your strength, your rock, your home. Will my word as the God of Contracts do?”

Expressive is one of the last attributes one would assign to the Scribe of the Akademiya, who also happens to be your longtime crush.

So you were surprised to find a saccharine sweet love letter in a pink envelope containing the words “I,” “love,” and “you”—in that order, next to each other—in his distinctly neat handwriting arriving at your doorstep on your birthday.

It’s not funny anymore, you think, deciding to confront him for playing with your feelings. You stroll to his office and bang at the door harshly, your face hot with anger.

“Come in,” the room’s owner says. You barge in, slamming the letter he sent you onto his desk.

“Out of all of your jokes, I rate this shit minus a hundred out of ten,” you say, voice shaking.

The silver-haired man tilts his head, seemingly confused. “What joke are you talking about?”

“This,” you smack the tip of your index finger onto the pink envelope, the force nearly ripping the paper in two. “This fucking letter, Alhaitham.”

“Oh, that,” he says with a smile. “I assure you, it’s not a joke.”

“Stop playing around!” you shout. “You said you love me, you liar.”

“Careful, I did say that, but my patience still has an end,” he says, his voice low, almost a growl. He sighs. “Why would you say I’m lying?”

You scoff. “Because there’s no way, right? You’re perfect, men and women alike want your hand in romance, and you said you love me?”

You laugh derisively as you try to ignore the sharp pain penetrating your chest.

“You can’t love me. You can’t. I’m just a pathetic woman fumbling through life, unlike you. You’re fit as a fiddle while I have to take medication every single night, else my sanity would crumble like dust. I’m a burden to everyone I’ve ever cared about. So please, just stop.”

You feel your lips tremble as you grit your teeth in pain. Alhaitham frowns.

“Yes, I know about all that. I still love you, though.”

“Shut up, Haitham.” You lower your head and turn away, stifling back a sob. “I don’t deserve you. Nobody wants me, and that should include you.”

He slams his fists against his desk as he stands up, making you jump in surprise at his loss of composure. He saunters over around the desk and stops in front of you, his much taller figure looming over your head. His hands find their way to squeeze your shoulders.

“Who hurt you?” he demands, his palms trembling in quiet rage. “I swear I’ll hunt them down and make them suffer for making you think so lowly about yourself.”

“No one,” you lie. The pain in your chest pulses. “I’m just stating the truth.”

“It’s not the truth,” he says, his hands moving to cup your cheeks. “One as strong as you shouldn’t have such a low opinion of themselves.”

He lowers his head to meet you in a slow kiss. A tear rolls down your cheek as you relish the feel of his soft lips against yours.

“There,” he mumbles after pulling back. “Now do you believe me?”

“I don’t want to,” you finally admit, tears now streaming down your face. “I can’t.”

“Then—give me the chance to prove my love for you. Please,” he says while pulling you close. You shut your eyes, taking in his presence like a thirsty deer greedily drinking from the water’s surface. The words he whispers next have a certain promise woven into them.

“I am going to make you the happiest person in the universe.”

The Duke of the Fortress of Meropide looks a bit different than usual today. You are certain of that.

Whenever he catches sight of you, he’ll either hum tunes to himself, smile like an idiot, or walk towards you with a skip in his step that others barely miss.

Too bad you’re only his personal mechanic. Pointing his strange behavior out is way above your pay grade.

… Which is what you’ve been saying to yourself, but your feelings, your amour for him screams and rebels inside your chest, threatening to spill into the flirty sentence of “Wow, someone sure is happy to see me.” You bite on the insides of your cheeks to hold it back. After all, he knows that you’re literally sick in the head, and he wouldn’t want someone like you by his side.

He would never, ever fall in love with you.

But, if that is true… what is that beautiful bouquet of Rainbow Roses doing in his hands, then?

“Happy birthday, wonderful woman,” he greets, a grin plastered across his face. “Please accept this duke’s gratitude.”

“Gratitude?” you ask, folding your hand over your chest where your heart is—the organ working super hard to pump more blood to your already-pink cheeks.

“Yes. Gratitude for all the work you’ve done,” he says in a sing-song voice.

You sigh, trying to rein in the butterflies in your stomach. “Wriothesley, I’m not an idiot. I know what Rainbow Roses mean.”

His smile turns melancholic.

“So what do you say?”

You harden your expression, trying to keep your tone as flat as possible.

“I’m sorry… I can’t.”

An uncomfortable silence goes on for a few seconds.

“Sure you can. Why not? I’ve seen the way you look at me.”

“No, I can’t. Now please stop this nonsense, Boss.”

He takes a step closer, and you take a step back.

“Go away,” you say, turning away from him while stifling back a sob. “I can’t have you.”

He puts a hand on your shoulder. “You can. I want you to have me.”

You shake your head and shrug him off, tears starting to roll down your cheeks as the pain in your chest grows stronger.

“I can’t! I won’t burden you with… with me, of all things!”

“Stop saying that!”

Before you can react, he turns you around and pulls you into him, wrapping you with his strong arms like he’s protecting you from the cold, cruel world.

“Please stop saying that. You’re not a burden. You are never a burden.”

You try to push him away, but he doesn’t budge. His shushes drown your grunts of struggle.

“Let me go. Please, I can’t want this—I can’t want you,” you finally plead, but he only pulls you closer, trapping your hands between your chest and his. You limp, pathetic sobs filling the air as you finally surrender.

“You want to know a secret?” he asks. He does not wait for your answer.

“I think you’re perfect. The way you pursue growth, the way you love. You are the most precious thing I have in my life,” he says, his voice half a whisper. “I am eternally thankful for you. Thank you for coming into my life. I’m at my best when I’m with you, and I don’t only mean because you can fix my gauntlets.”

His embrace tightens around you. You can feel his growing stubble rub against your temple.

“And if I don’t at least try being with you, I’m sure I’ll regret it for the rest of my life.”

He sighs as he presses his lips to the crown of your head, the warmth sending goosebumps across your skin.

“I want to be your home. I want… no, I need you by my side,” he continues.

Your grip on his vest tightens as you feel him bury his face into your hair.

“I love you. I love you so much, my heart hurts every moment I remember that you’re not mine,” he whispers. He pulls back, only to press his lips against yours in a slow, gentle kiss the next moment.

“Please… be mine. I will never let you down. That’s my vow to you, and I intend to keep it for the rest of my life.”

He looks into your eyes, his gaze as gentle as a beautiful snowflake. You tiptoe a bit to meet him in another kiss. He chuckles as he returns the favor with passion.

“I’ll take that as a yes.”

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[citroncynique]

So that 4.2 Archon Quest felt REALLY familiar for some reason

(you should play Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina)

[two-stars]

changeling.