#facewashes

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Achieve a Shine-Free Glow with the Ideal Face Wash for Oily Skin"

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[hongchicken]

How to treat acne

Introduction

Acne is a common skin condition that affects people of all ages. It is characterized by blackheads, whiteheads, pimples, and other blemishes that can range from mild to severe. If left untreated, acne can cause long-term damage to the skin and can even lead to scarring. Fortunately, there are many treatments available to help reduce and even eliminate acne. In this blog post, we’ll discuss various treatments for acne and how to treat it properly.

What Causes Acne?

Before we discuss treatment options for acne, it’s important to understand what causes it in the first place. Acne is caused when the pores of the skin become clogged with oil and bacteria. This can be due to a variety of factors, including hormones, diet, genetics, and skin care products.

Diet and Acne

One of the most important factors to consider when treating acne is diet. Certain foods can cause inflammation in the skin and lead to breakouts. Foods to avoid include dairy, processed foods, and foods high in sugar and carbohydrates. It’s also important to drink plenty of water to help flush out toxins and keep your skin hydrated.

Skin Care Products

The products you use on your skin can also contribute to acne breakouts. It’s important to use products that are specifically formulated for acne-prone skin. Look for products that are oil-free, non-comedogenic, and contain salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide. These ingredients help to reduce inflammation and kill bacteria.

Over-the-Counter Treatments

There are a variety of over-the-counter treatments available for mild to moderate acne. These include spot treatments, face washes, and moisturizers. It’s important to read the labels on the products and make sure they are formulated for acne-prone skin.

Prescription Medications

If over-the-counter treatments are not enough to reduce your acne, your doctor may prescribe a stronger medication. These medications can include antibiotics, retinoids, or hormonal medications. These medications can help reduce inflammation and kill the bacteria that cause acne.

Home Remedies

There are also a variety of home remedies that can help reduce acne. These include using natural products such as apple cider vinegar, tea tree oil, and aloe vera. Other home remedies include using a warm compress to reduce inflammation, avoiding touching the face, and washing the face twice a day with a gentle cleanser.

Stress Management

Stress can also contribute to acne breakouts. It’s important to practice stress management techniques such as deep breathing, meditation, and yoga. These activities can help to reduce stress and keep your skin looking healthy.

Conclusion

Acne can be a frustrating condition to deal with, but with the right treatment it can be managed. It’s important to understand what causes acne and how to treat it properly. This includes eating a healthy diet, using skin care products that are formulated for acne-prone skin, using over-the-counter treatments, and using prescription medications if necessary. Home remedies and stress management techniques can also help to reduce acne breakouts. With the right treatment, you can keep your skin looking clear and healthy.

[bowenoke]

edit: btw it is not safe to wear contacts in the shower! the option is included for accuracy, but please consider throwing on an old pair of glasses or just going blind into that wet box instead.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Elizabeth Warren on weaponized budget models

In yesterday’s essay, I broke down the new series from The American Prospect on the hidden ideology and power of budget models, these being complex statistical systems for weighing legislative proposals to determine if they are “economically sound.” The assumptions baked into these models are intensely political, and, like all dirty political actors, the model-makers claim they are “empirical” while their adversaries are “doing politics”:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all-models-are-wrong/#some-are-useful

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/04/cbo-says-no/#wealth-tax

Today edition of the Prospect continues the series with an essay by Elizabeth Warren, describing how her proposal for universal child care was defeated by the incoherent, deeply political assumptions of the Congressional Budget Office’s model, blocking an important and popular policy simply because “computer says no”:

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-04-04-policymakers-fight-losing-battle-models/

When the Build Back Better bill was first mooted, it included a promise of universal, federally funded childcare. This was excised from the final language of the bill (renamed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill), because the CBO said it would cost too much: $381.5b over ten years.

This is a completely nonsensical number, and the way that CBO arrived at it is illuminating, throwing the ideology of CBO modeling into stark relief. You see, the price tag for universal childcare did not include the benefits of childcare!

As Warren points out, this is not how investment works. No business leader assesses their capital expenditures without thinking of the dividends from those investments. No firm decides whether to open a new store by estimating the rent and salaries and ignoring the sales it will generate. Any business that operates on that basis would never invest in anything.

Universal childcare produces enormous dividends. Kids who have access to high-quality childcare grow up to do better in school, have less trouble with the law, and earn more as adults. Mothers who can’t afford childcare, meanwhile, absent themselves from the workforce during their prime earning years. Those mothers are less likely to advance professionally, have lower lifetime earnings, and a higher likelihood of retiring without adequate savings.

What’s more, universal childcare is the only way to guarantee a living wage to childcare workers, who are disproportionately likely to rely on public assistance, including SNAP (AKA food stamps) to make ends meet. These stressors affect childcare workers’ job performance, and also generate public expenditures to keep those workers fed and housed.

But the CBO model does not include any of those benefits. As Warren says, in a CBO assessment, giving every kid in America decent early childhood care and every childcare worker a living wage produces the same upside as putting $381.5 in a wheelbarrow and setting it on fire.

This is by design. Congress has decreed that CBO assessments can’t factor in secondary or indirect benefits from public expenditure. This is bonkers. Public investment is all secondary and indirect benefits — from highways to broadband, from parks to training programs, from education to Medicare. Excluding indirect benefits from assessments of public investments is a literal, obvious, unavoidable recipe for ending the most productive and beneficial forms of public spending.

It means that — for example — a CBO score for Meals on Wheels for seniors is not permitted to factor in the Medicare savings from seniors who can age in their homes with dignity, rather than being warehoused at tremendous public expense in nursing homes.

It means that the salaries of additional IRS enforcers can only be counted as an expense — Congress isn’t allowed to budget for the taxes that those enforcers will recover.

And, of course, it’s why we can’t have Medicare For All. Private health insurers treat care as an expense, with no upside. Denying you care and making you sicker isn’t a bug as far as the health insurance industry is concerned — it’s a feature. You bear the expense of the sickness, after all, and they realize the savings from denying you care.

But public health programs can factor in those health benefits and weigh them against health costs — in theory, at least. However, if the budgeting process refuses to factor in “indirect” benefits — like the fact that treating your chronic illness lets you continue to take care of your kids and frees your spouse from having to quit their job to look after you — then public health care costings become indistinguishable from the private sector’s for-profit death panels.

Child care is an absolute bargain. The US ranks 33d out of 37 rich countries in terms of public child care spending, and in so doing, it kneecaps innumerable mothers’ economic prospects. The upside of providing care is enormous, far outweighing the costs — so the CBO just doesn’t weigh them.

Warren is clear that there’s no way to make public child care compatible with CBO scoring. Even when she whittled away at her bill, excluding millions of families who would have benefited from the program, the CBO still flunked it.

The current budget-scoring system was designed for people who want to “shrink government until it fits in a bathtub, and then drown it.” It is designed so that we can’t have nice things. It is designed so that the computer always says no.

Warren calls for revisions to the CBO model, to factor in those indirect benefits that are central to public spending. She also calls for greater diversity in CBO oversight, currently managed by a board of 20 economists and only two non-economists — and the majority of the economists got their PhDs from the same program and all hew to the same orthodoxy.

For all its pretense of objectivity, modeling is a subjective, interpretive discipline. If all your modelers are steeped in a single school, they will incinerate the uncertainty and caveats that should be integrated into every modeler’s conclusions, the humility that comes from working with irreducible uncertainty.

Finally, Warren reminds us that there are values that are worthy of consideration, beyond a dollars-and-cents assessment. Even though programs like child care pay for themselves, that’s not the only reason to favor them — to demand them. Child care creates “an America in which everyone has opportunities — and ‘everyone’ includes mamas.” Child care is “an investment in care workers, treating them with respect for the hard work they do.”

The CBO’s assassination of universal child care is exceptional only because it was a public knifing. As David Dayen and Rakeen Mabud wrote in their piece yesterday, nearly all of the CBO’s dirty work is done in the dark, before a policy is floated to the public:

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-04-03-hidden-in-plain-sight/

The entire constellation of political possibility has been blotted out by the CBO, so that when we gaze up at the sky, we can only see a few sickly stars — weak economic nudges like pricing pollution, and not the glittering possibilities of banning it. We see the faint hope of “bending the cost-curve” on health care, and not the fierce light of simply providing care.

We can do politics. We have done it before. Every park and every highway, our libraries and our schools, our ports and our public universities — these were created by people no smarter than us. They didn’t rely on a lost art to do their work. We know how they did it. We know what’s stopping us from doing it again. And we know what to do about it.

Have you ever wanted to say thank you for these posts? Here’s how you can: I’m kickstarting the audiobook for my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible.

[Image ID: A disembodied hand, floating in space. It holds a Univac mainframe computer. The computer is shooting some kind of glowing red rays that are zapping three US Capitol Buildings, suspended on hovering platforms. In the background, the word NO is emblazoned in a retrocomputing magnetic ink font, limned in red.]

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

after ten years of having a very itchy head it has been mildly frustrating to discover that the way to fix it was not dandruff shampoo, expensive shampoo, or expensive dandruff shampoo, it was just finding completely unscented shampoo. this stuff costs $13 and it smells like the chemicals you put into hot tubs and my hair looks exactly as nice as it did with the expensive shampoo but my head isn't itchy!! fragrances when I catch you

[suguru-getos]

god im the prettiest in my workplace (conceited ena hours)

[thatweirdtranny]

on the one hand skin care routines and products can become something to obsess over and that’s not good for a plethora of reasons mostly revolving around how the industry preys upon your insecurities

on the other hand developing a skin care routine that focuses on it as a self care process can help with one’s mental health by showing to yourself that you’re worth the time and effort to take care of yourself

like all things in life, balance is key

[seveneyesoup]

dallas (takes excellent care of his hair) and valentine (learned the basics by watching dallas and asking questions and adapting) vs james (will get his hair cut at any great clips) vs eddie (can has and will again cut her own hair with office scissors in a random bathroom) vs mina (learned how to cut her own hair from reading hair cutting books, Always uses two mirrors and proper hair cutting scissors)

[zequz]

Skincare for Every Age: How to Care for Your Skin in Your 20s, 30s, 40s, and Beyond!

Skincare is an essential part of our lives, but your skin needs will depend on age. As you move through different stages of age, adapting your routine helps maintain a glowing,healthy complexion. Here’s a guide to tailoring your skin care routine to suit your skin’s changing demands through your 20s, 30s,40s and beyond.

Skincare in Your 20s: Building Healthy Habits

Your 20s are all about prevention and maintaining your youthful, resilient skin. While your skin is at its peak, establishing good habits now will help you in future.

Cleanse Twice Daily: Gentle cleansing is essential in your 20s to remove makeup, dirt and environmental pollutants. Choose a mild, non-stripping cleanser to keep your skin clean without disrupting its natural oils.

Hydration is Key: while your skin is still young, it benefits from light, water-based hydration. Use toner to hydrate your skin after cleansing to lock moisture.

Prevention with Antioxidants: Start using antioxidant-rich products, such as Vitamin C, to protect your skin from environment stressors and promote a glowing complexion.

Sunscreen: This is the most crucial step to protect your skin from premature aging. Apply sunscreen every day, even when on cloudy days.

Skincare in Your 30s: Repair and Protect

In your 30s, the first sign of aging may start to appear as your skin begins to lose some of its elasticity. Now is the time to focus on maintaining your skin’s appearance while repairing early damage.

Incorporate Retinol: Retinol helps stimulate collagen production and smooth fine lines. Start slow to avoid irritation, using it a few times a week in your nighttime routine.

Strengthen with Antioxidants: Continue to use antioxidants like Vitamin C, which also help reduce dark spots and even skin tone.

Give Attention to Eyes and Lips: The skin around your eyes and lips is thinner and more prone to aging. Add a lightweight eye cream to target fine lines and puffiness.

Boost Hydration with Serum: Skin begins to produce less oil, leading to dryness. Hydrating serum with hyaluronic acid can help to give moisture and prevent dehydration.

Skincare in Your 40s: Prioritize Firmness and Elasticity

In your 40s, collagen and elastin production decreases significantly, leading to sagging skin and deeper wrinkles. Hydration and firming are the main focus in this decade.

Exfoliate Regularly: Exfoliating a few times a week helps to promote cells and keeps your skin smooth. Choose exfoliants like glycolic acid or lactic acid for gentle yet effective treatment.

Continue Using Retinol: Retinol remains a powerful anti-aging skin care ingredient in your 40s. If your skin tolerates it, you can use it more frequently to support collagen production.

Choose Richer Moisturizers: Your skin will benefit from heavier moisturizers that offer long-lasting hydration and support the skin barrier. Look for creams with nourishing ingredients like ceramides.

Use Peptides for Firming: Peptides can help rebuild skin strength by stimulating collagen, which improves firmness and reduces the appearance of wrinkles.

Skincare in 50s and Beyond: Repair and Nourish

As you pass your 50s, hormonal changes can cause your skin to become thinner, drier, and more fragile. At this stage, your skin should be focused on nourishing and repairing your skin.

Boost Hydration: Moisturizing becomes the most critical aspect of your routine. Choose rich, emollient creams and consider adding oils to seal in moisture.

Barrier Protection: Focus on products that strengthen the skin barrier, as it becomes more prone to moisture loss and irritation. Ingredients like fatty acids and cholesterol are best for restoring the barrier function.

Focus on Gentle Products: As your skin becomes more sensitive, it’s essential to use gentle, soothing products. Avoid harsh scrubs or overly aggressive treatments, as they can cause irritation.

Brightening treatment: Dark spots and hyperpigmentation may become more noticeable due to years of sun exposure. Look for treatments that brighten the complexion and even skin tones, such as niacinamide or licorice root extract.

Conclusion

Skincare needs evolve with age, and adjusting your routine ensures your skin remains healthy skin at every stage of life. In your 20s, focus on establishing good habits and prevention. In your 30s, repair and protect against early signs of aging. Your 40s are about boosting hydration and elasticity, while your 50s and beyond require intense nourishment and gentle care. With consistency and the right approach, you can maintain your skin’s vitality for years to come.

Tips:

20s: Cleanse and prevent damage with antioxidants and sunscreen. 30s: Hydrate deeply and start using retinol. 40s: Focus on firming, hydration, and regular exfoliation. 50s: Repair with nourishing creams and gentle care.

Remember, a Skin Brightening Vitamin C+E Face wash can be your go-to at every stage, offering a gentle cleanse that supports the health and glow of your skin.

[behring]

Anders is the type of guy to own a kimono bath robe 😍

But it has to be 100% silk because its better for his skin or whatever the fuck

And it has a super complex fancy pattern he brags about and it was also $300 so hes better than you

Metrosexual fashion icon

[weedsinavacantlot]

Transgendering and having to buy so many new items

[dacuslucy]

I love to be evil out of love

you could absplutely breakmy heart

[blazybunnyy]

skincare💕🍡🍯

[hermithomebase]

fighting wars y’all could not even comprehend rn

[bakingrecipe]

bought minimalist facewash this better be worth it