The girls and I have been playing at putting on make up quite frequently lately, so I’ve been looking for a good (and cheap) makeup remover. I found the Blum Daily Cleansing Towelettes
The selling point of these towelettes is that they are made with natural and organic ingredients (though if you look at the ingredients the only organic ingredient is the tea tree oil). Some of the ingredients (salicylic acid, gluconolactone) don’t sound very natural, but who am I to know? The towelettes are pretty thin and they are a bit rough when you apply them. The ones I use are for combination/oily skin and they don’t contain any oil – which means that they leave you with a dry feeling. That’s probably a good thing.
The problem, however, is that they don’t work well. My kids applied a lot of makeup to my face today, and I tried to thoroughly clean it with the towelette. It removed quite a bit of the stuff, but by no means all of it. I followed up by cleaning my face with cotton balls and a combination of 2/3 aloe vera gel and 1/3 jojoba oil, and I was amazed at how much makeup there was left over. Of course, using oil to clean my oily face is probably not a good idea – but it does work.
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A little while ago I came back from picking up Camila at daycare. Her daycare is about 2 miles from my house and I walk to pick her up and back – this means that every day, in the middle of the day, I spend almost two hours under the sun, not a trivial amount.
In my youth, that wouldn’t have been an issue. I always tanned beautifully and seldom burnt (though I remember one trip to Ecuador where I didn’t fare so well). But with age my skin has changed and now my face and upper chest acquires an ugly red tint if I spend almost any time under the sun (my arms, meanwhile, continue to tan just as well).
I usually hate wearing sunscreen, both for the oily feeling and the horrible coconut smell. I like spray sunscreens for this reason (and because they are easy to apply), but even those with a high SPF don’t seem to work that well for me. So Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunblock
As I mentioned in my last post, yesterday I went to the flea market and one of the things I got was the Chicken Socks: How to Make Pompom Animals book/kit
The kit is aimed to the younger crowd (4+ yo) and the animals are simple enough to be able to be made by kids without any help. The kit basically consists of pompoms of four different sizes and a bunch of woogly eyes, as well as some cardboard die cuts for wings and things of the sort. All a child has to do is glue the things together. The kit comes with a glue stick, but, perhaps because the kit was used, we didn’t find the glue sticky enough for the pompoms. Regular glue didn’t do it either, so we resorted to using our glue gun – that works very well, though it gets a little messy with strings of glue going everywhere and there is always the risk of burns. I wouldn’t recommend it for kids younger than 5.
In all, Camila really enjoyed making the animals and she’s looking forward to playing with them (let’s see if she actually does so). Would I pay $10 for the kit, what it retails for? Maybe for a gift, it seems to expensive for a bunch of pompoms otherwise – but I’m got we got what we got.
Tomorrow is my birthday and I’m celebrating it today, Sunday. We started by going to La Note for breakfast, and followed it with a visit to the flea market. I was planning on giving myself a home spa in the afternoon, so I was very happy to find a Conair Body Benefits Bubbling Foot Spa
There is a lady at the flea market that sells fun toys very cheap – I mostly go to the flea market to check out what she has. This time I got a Chicken Socks: How to Make Pompom Animals
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