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30 Dec

Tell If You are Allergic to Your Laundry Detergent

There is not any higher feeling than jumping into bed with freshly washed sheets… and nothing worse than waking up eight hours later covered in a rash. If this sounds familiar, there may be a likelihood a laundry detergent allergy is the offender that is making your skin irritated. Sure, detergent will help make our brights brighter, but the usually high concentration of chemicals within the stuff — able to removing the stubborn stains we get from god-knows-where — can sometimes do more harm than good.One common concern attributable to detergent is its ability to trigger antagonistic skin reactions and conditions like contact dermatitis, the results of direct exposure to an allergen or irritant. Add within the indisputable fact that...
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24 Jul

So that you’re interested by using your period blood

A guide to menstrual magick and using period blood in your practice by sorceress and spellcaster Isabella Greenwood Unless periods are rigorously monitored and synchronised, the universe might descend into chaos. At the very least that’s what men was frightened about, in response to anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss’ study of Indigenous myths of North and South America. Throughout history, menstrual blood has been the topic of mythical taboos and today it remains to be heavily stigmatised and excluded from on a regular basis discussion. Menstrual blood is seen as threatening in its transgression of bodily boundaries between inside and outdoors, private and public. This, combined with its inherent power, has endowed menstrual blood with...
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25 Apr

Beauty is a privilege in case you’re growing up

One author reflects on her uneasy relationship with buying make-up in light of her low-income upringing There have been 4.1 million children living in poverty in 2017, and it’s predicted that because of the continuing Universal Credit rollout this December, there will likely be an extra 400,000 by 2022. Growing up, I used to be considered one of them. As a baby, I struggled to construct a healthy relationship with beauty, since it was something I literally couldn’t afford to do. I used to be ignorant on the time of the indisputable fact that I used to be already privileged in other ways by default – fitting the Western beauty industry ideals of being...
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