#clean ingredients

[lovegrace68]

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎 ℬ𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝒪𝓊𝓇 𝒮𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒 ℒ𝒾𝓃𝑒 as told by our co-founder, Michele.

LimeLife would not be LimeLife without Margaret. When we were searching for a skincare line, my almost-sister Margaret was fighting Triple Negative Breast Cancer. At one point she said, “Michele, you cannot bring another skin care line into this world that has harmful ingredients. It is harming women.”

I felt this weird conflict. I totally understood the importance of what she was saying and yet I wanted to bring the best beauty products into the brand. Weren’t synthetic chemicals important for effectiveness?

To keep my promise, I went back to a vendor that I had met years before, a scientist from California, who had spent almost a half a decade studying natural ingredients and their effectiveness. I asked her to produce a face oil for our brand. That was all I wanted, something that would create a “dewy look.” Months later, she delivered 11 products, all free of harmful chemicals, and asked me to test them. I distributed the line to 12 people with varying skin types and asked them to try the products and let me know what they thought.

The feedback was overwhelmingly positive. I had my 5 favorite products, Madison had her 5 (which were different from mine), and there were at least three people who called each of the 11 products a “can’t live without.”

It was then that I realized how brainwashed I had become. The entire beauty industry had been telling me, basically my whole life, that chemicals were the active ingredient and without them you might as well put nothing on your skin. Imagine if television and print ads focused on totally natural active ingredients and all the incredible existing scientific proof of their effectiveness. Ingredients like lemon, tea tree oil, natural clay, aloe, essential oils, etc. Wouldn’t you think differently? Wouldn’t you think that someone who promoted chemicals was weird/wrong/peddling voodoo? Perhaps the same kind of skepticism some have for LimeLife.

But highlighting natural ingredients really wouldn’t be good for business. You can easily get your hands on natural ingredients, but you can’t get your hands on a test tube of that specially-trademarked complex that promises the fountain of youth or magical cure for acne. If you want to sell a lot of skin care products, you find a synthetic ingredient that does something effective, you create a very powerful scientific name for it, you trademark it, you inflate the cost of it (because who the heck would know), and you tell women that it is the latest, newest best thing ever through mesmerizing campaign ads and fancy packaging.

Margaret woke me from this spell, this marketing myth I bought into. She put me on the right path, one that is so much more authentic to who I am.

If Mother Nature could take out an ad at the Super Bowl perhaps she would say, “I have the most powerful lab in the universe, it’s called Earth and I make the most transforming ingredients from roots™, flowers™, seeds™, leaves™, bark™ and soil™” But I don’t think even that would totally break the spell.

Before she died, she told me to tell everyone about her story and why it was important to use LimeLife. It felt a million types of icky to use her struggle to sell product. But I now know what she really wanted me to do – challenge your thinking because it could cost you more than just the product price.

This blog and this skin care line is for you, Margaret. Miss you and love you.”

*With Love, Michele

CO-FOUNDER 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐞

*This was retrieved from an old article on our LimeLife Blog. Thank you to all who kept the story alive and shared it over the years.

A side note from me:

Years later, I’m incredibly proud that the products I recommend to my clients daily continue to honor that original vision. Not only did we begin with clean ingredients, but we’ve also gone even further, aligning with EU cosmetic standards that ban over 1,300 ingredients still allowed in many U.S. products. Our skincare is not only free from parabens, sulfates (SLS), and phthalates, but it’s also vegan, cruelty-free (Leaping Bunny certified), and made right here in the U.S. by chemists who are committed to sourcing the best and most effective, sustainably grown ingredients from around the world. It is highly rated and something I am proud to stand behind as I know my customers will use it daily without worry. LimeLife truly believes in offering skincare we can trust inside and out.

[techcenters]

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[mikami1992]

Supernatural Cops

The fandom has come to the conclusion that all kinds of supernatural or unusual things happen in Amity Park and people take it like any other Tuesday.

Still, I wouldn't be surprised if this place is the only place in the country (not to say the world) that has a police division in charge of handling Cults…

Yes, in Amity Park there is a group of police (not to say half of all the police in the city) that are dedicated to controlling cults and their peculiarities, because we must remember that, despite the reputation of being a tourist trap, this town in the middle of nowhere has the reputation of being the most haunted place in the country (or the world), so it wouldn't be crazy to say that on certain dates of the year many "tourists" (cough cultists cough) arrive who come in order to do "events" (cough rites cough), so whether they want it or not, someone has to control that the limits on how they are "celebrating" are not broken… and to top it off, the limits of what the city considers acceptable is a greater margin than other places, so it has become common for some groups to come back later.

So yes, Amity Park has one of the most effective police departments in dealing with cults and supernatural beliefs, not only are they effective in identifying participants, most of the time they know what kind of cultist they are dealing with, whether they are just playing a game or are the real magic business and how dangerous/troublesome they will be in the end.

What's more, this group is so good at what they do, that many times the inhabitants of Amity Park prefer to call them instead of the GIW (they are too destructive and there is still no 100% reliable insurance that will pay for the damages they cause), when it comes to a problem with a ghost and the ghost child is not around.

and that competition is more noticeable when other cities in the country begin to ask for help with some unknown cults that are appearing rap

[ratguy-nico]

Adivinen quien al fin dibujo algo? Wich means I'm back baby!

Its not perfect (like everything I made), but I just love drawing comic-like-stuff, I get to relax more. I dont try to do the lines perfectly or the super accurate anatomy (mostly cause I dont know shit about anatomy at all) and also get to be more simple in the colors, wich helps cause I struggle making colors a lot.

I missed drawing my babies...but why did I drawing them like that? XD I swear...I think I should have seen some reference cause I totally change the way I draw the Burger Babys which is crazy for me XD

Now...is this an AU, is this them as teenagers, why is Louise working on Aplebees? Well I didnt put an exact age for the guys here, they could be 16 or 19 I dunno.

This is solely based on this post from @zer0ogravity I lmao with this and totally need it to draw it.

btw I from Latam, I didn't knew what Applebees was until making this comic so if Applebees dont look like this sorry.

[cosmicwhoreo]

Maybe Grand Reef Cookie shouldn't always try to make the things he finds into some sort of tea or meal....

[screeching-painter-witch]

i don't like capitalism i wanna be a little cultivator with my ghost husband in puqi shrine

[your-mommy-ems]

today is just one of those days where i wanna scream and cry because everything just seems to be piling up.

[st4rsinthenight]

★live reaction of me after dropping almost all of my salad onto the floor and just looking at the messy aftermath like★

[hikayunas]

you know, it’s honestly such a shame that so much fanart of san and miyuri either involves a gag about miyuri making san uncomfortable, or a gag about san just disliking miyuri and finding her bothersome -- or even a mix of both -- when actual story content in the game about them and their relationship shows their bond as mutual and not even a sliver as one-sided or shallow as most fan creations would lead you to believe

[cyancherub]

rly not a fan of ppl imposing their idea of fun on me under the assumption that it's also my idea of fun

[send-me-a-puffalope]

GUYS I DID IT. I MADE IT OUT OF THE TRENCHES. ITS OFFICIALLY SPRING BREAK. HALLELUJAH IM ALIVE !!!

[faillen]

I'm Sexy and I Know It ft. Jeff Satur as Win Marwin

[terrified-spider]

ohhhhhh holy shit i made paprika hendl because it was bored and i remembered i've wanted to make it for a while after it was mentioned in dracula and holy shit it was worth the 2+ hours I spent on it

[ainawgsd]

11yo is making dinner tonight. We're having pancakes.

[dreamlogic]

a stupid pet peeve about my housemate that makes me irrationally furious is that she always uses these cute little delicate ceramic dishes as spoon rests when she's cooking.

because the thing is, she's a really messy cook. like idk how she manages it, but if she cooks a single fried egg on one burner, there will be a 1 ft blast radius of grease splatters & spices & egg bits around that burner that she never seems to notice & therefore doesn't wipe up. heaven forbid if she cooks a larger meal that uses multiple burners.

so when she uses her stupid adorable spoon rests to keep her utensils from dirtying surfaces, the effect in practice is that there will be a thick layer of caked on cooking detritus covering the entire vicinity, with a perfectly clean 2 inch circle underneath the spoon rest.

and lord help me, the sight of that single tiny dish on the stove top, having utterly failed in its duty except to highlight how greasy the rest of the kitchen is—

[greyias]

🙃

Purina apparently discontinued and then reformulated the only canned food I've found so far that Griffin's extraordinarily sensitive tummy can tolerate, adding one of his potential worst allergens to nearly the top of the formulation list. I have sent a Karen-like e-mail to Purina, and am now having to have five million tabs open on different pet food websites to put the ingredient lists of everything under a microscope to try and find something remotely close.