I have Googled the living shit out of this for two years. The bf lives there and every time I go, I spend an afternoon looking for help online. Here's what I kind of know, but please correct me if I've got it wrong.
Chicago has hard water, and I think it might have particularly high chlorine and calcium levels. (I say this having tried, poorly, to parse both the Chicago water quality report and the NYC report.) As I understand it, hard water doesn't completely rinse off soap etc. Combined with chemicals you've got dryness and residue. NYC has soft water and it rinses better. I grew up with hard water in Michigan and never had a problem; then I moved to NYC and after a few years I think my skin got used to soft water, and now there's no going back. (I have no idea if that's even possible or a thing, but just a theory.)
The only solution I've found online thus far is, if you're a renter, to install a shower head purifier (Sprite brand seems to make a good one, according to reviews). Next time I visit, I plan on making the bf install one right then and there. I didn't even wash my face with faucet water during my last trip -- I used bottled water like I'm a princess or something -- but I broke out just from taking two showers and having that water touch my face when I rinsed my hair.
If anyone knows a solution, please advise. This has long been a personal crusade of sorts.
It really is The Shit, I agree. I ran out before I had a chance to buy more and grabbed Cetaphil -- I have to say, I think they might be kinda the same? That said, once I'm through this bottle of the cheap stuff, I'll go crawling back to Purity.
I've tried that one, yeah. They're kinda crappy, in my experience. This is night and day.
ETA: But I also know that this one is 10x as expensive as the Neutrogena one, so there's that. There's an Olay one that someone has mentioned down thread, which I've not tried.
1. Quite possibly! But I imagine it varies.
2. No, not everyone uses it every day. But I do.
3. I wash my face normally at night and use the Clarisonic in the am. Some people do vice-versa, I don't think it matters.
4. At the very least, remove your eye makeup before you use it. I like using it in the AM bc then I don't have any makeup on anyhow.
There are a bunch of comparison videos on YouTube if you do some searching!
On the other hand, if the actual FDA has collected data and releasing a new report right now, do we completely ignore it in favor of a Snopes verdict from 2003?
+1 on that. However, I find that the worse the red wine mouth, the worse I'm all chapped the next day. Or am I the only one who experiences that? (I wrote about it here ages ago under a pseudonym: [jezebel.com] )
Oooh -- but that doesn't change my point, ha.
Okay, you're right -- 1983 tis.
Fair enough; my tone definitely went in that direction, you're right. I've edited to be more fair. I don't think he was a good influence, but she was a grown woman who made her own choices. #complaints
For the date of the performance, most sources I'm finding (and not just ones from the past 24 hours) cite April 29, 1985; one random says 1983. I'll stick w '85 for now (which would make sense to promote her debut album) -- maybe Clive just made a mistake? Seems unlikely, but who knows. Will correct if I find a definitive answer.
A very good idea; it's on our to-do list. Lots more to come in the Komencopia.
Thank you! But credit goes to Jim Cooke, our wonderful new art director!
Thanks for the kind words. But! We do not do trigger warnings. Ever. As a rule. I don't believe in them, period.
and yet here you are.
Yeah, you should go. :)
