Makeup & Beauty Monday: Deep-Cleaning Brush and Sponge Shampoo
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Given I can’t remember the last time I cleaned my makeup brushes, I need to add this to my cart.
Use this brush and sponge shampoo regularly to keep your brushes (and therefore your skin) clean. This shampoo removes bacteria, excess product, and oil buildup without leaving any residue. Extend the life of your favorite tools with this gentle, yet effective, hypoallergenic shampoo.
Sephora’s deep-cleaning brush and sponge shampoo is $16.
Sales of note for 3/21/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Spring sale, up to 50% off: Free People, AllSaints, AG, and more
- Ann Taylor – 25% off suiting + 25% off tops & sweaters + extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off everything + 20% off
- Eloquii – 50% off elevated essentials + extra 50% off sale
- J.Crew – 25% off select linen & cashmere + up to 50% off select styles + extra 40% off sale
- J.Crew Factory – Friends & Family Sale: Extra 15% off your purchase + extra 50% off clearance + 50-60% off spring faves
- M.M.LaFleur – Flash Sale: Get the Ultimate Jardigan for $198 on sale; use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Buy 1 get 1 50% off everything, includes markdowns
Me, again. We coincidentally just got her DIBELS score for mid-year 1st grade and she tested at a 448, “significantly above grade level.”
Now my mom brain is swirling, wondering if she’s actually just kind of bored. I’m WFH today, which I’m not typically on a Monday. She came home with her weekly HW packet and finished it in 10 minutes (2 sheets reading/writing, 2 sheets math).
I think I’m just going to let it lie and continue reinforcing the message from the home front that she needs to focus on her work / cut down on chattiness. But, it’s interesting to have this data and anecdata within a week of the parent-teacher conference… hmm.
[Meanwhile, from upstairs I can hear she’s “putting on a Taylor Swift concert” right now and singing horribly off key with all the confidence and volume in the world. Don’t change, little girl….]
My newish two year old is ready to potty train, although I am not. This is very different from when we had to force our older son to potty train as a preschool requirement at age 3. Daughter has been pulling down her diaper and insisting to poop in a little potty. She refuses to change diapers and secretly pulls them off when we’re not looking. She can pull her own pants up and down. She only sometimes notices when she’s peeing, as demonstrated by watching herself in surprise when she pees on the floor after a bath. Next weekend we may try to do the three-day method, but it’s very cold where we live and we have hardwood floors, plus she gets cold easily, so she will be resistant to not having bottoms. Any suggestions? Pullups? Training underwear? Daycare would normally be super supportive, but they have a temporary substitute teacher in her classroom this week. I’m not in a rush to train her, but she’s adamantly taking the lead here. This morning she pooped in the potty when I was making breakfast and she came into the kitchen . . . covered.
5 y/o is very creative with big ideas and always playing pretend with something or other. But he absolutely tears the house apart, or is sneaking and reusing items before we can even catch him in the act. I.e. tools from an eyeglass kit, potato masher from the drawer, (hilariously) my peri bottle in the truck carwash. I looked behind his futon and little army guys were lined up with dental floss. Then when we try to clean up, he’s tired or, doesn’t want to ruin his creation. Not to mention, I couldn’t find the floss that night.
Does your kid play this way, and does the mess make you crazy?
Any tips for things we can do at home with our first grade girl to help her in the classroom? Her teacher wrote, essentially, that she needs help staying on task because she gets chatty. She’s like this at home too.
She’s my youngest child, she is wonderful but has a sort of class clown/ attention seeking personality. She’s also young for her grade and academically very on track/advanced and from a family of pretty advanced learners. Our concern isn’t academic; she’s tracking fine. But she is likely distracting *other* kids. I’m just kind of at a loss on how to help at home.
My oldest is a Type A overachiever, my middle is gifted and has raging ADHD but is apparently the opposite at school- TOO focused on tasks!.
We’ve tried things like talking about how it’s OK to chat during partner work but chat about the work. Or try to get the work done and *then* have your social time. We’ve also had my oldest talk with her about it which seemed to really resonate (“oh you are doing XYZ? I remember that! I thought it was easy but some kids thought it was hard. Why don’t you pretend you are the teacher and help them figure out what different strategies they might want to try?” or “When the books are really easy, try and act them out!”)
We’ll have ~24 hours in Houston before a cruise out of Galveston. I was thinking of doing the space center the first afternoon since that seems up my kid’s alley and is in the right direction. Any recs for food in that area? Or quick things to do the next morning before we get on board the ship? Will we be able to take Lyft from IAH to the space center area and from the space center area to the cruise port, or would you recommend arranging a car service in advance?
this weekend i attended a Zoom surprise party for a college friend. Her med school bff works full-time as a physician and has 5 boys! I was in awe
How do you get a kid to care a little more about school? We don’t have huge problems but my 6th grader is very smart and responsible in terms of doing her homework without being prompted etc, but rarely seems to care much about studying. I want her to be a little more motivated to do her best but I don’t know what to do to help her get there. I feel like I have tried a bunch of things but nothing seems to work.
Monday morning win – I put my 8 month old to bed at 7:30 and she stayed fast asleep until 6:30! Her sleep has been disrupted since the holiday season/my return to work, especially as she is EBF and refusing bottles. So a full night’s rest felt impossible. No idea when/if it’ll happen again anytime soon but I am beyond thrilled (and a little better able to focus on work today for once).
Something that surprised me about parenting- I much prefer getting out of the house with my kids than hanging out at home. They’re 1 and 3 so maybe it’ll be different when they’re older. A desperate 8 am trip to a McDonalds play place yesterday for my own sanity really drove the point home. I’m usually a homebody so I wasn’t expecting that.
What do you prefer? What parenting preference seems at odds with your personality?