Makeup & Beauty Monday: Rapid Relief Acne Sulfur Clay Mask
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As someone who (still!) gets the occasional zit, I’ve tried my share of treatments. While my go-tos as a teen now dry my skin out, I’ve tried some new remedies, including sulfur clay masks like this one.
This mask contains 5% sulfur to prevent and fight breakouts, salicylic acid for smoother skin, and Austrian peat extract to reduce redness without overdrying. Yes, sulfur is not anyone’s fragrance of choice, but this mask uses eucalyptus extract to neutralize that odor. Use this mask regularly for fewer breakouts, clear pores, and improved skin texture.
Murad’s Rapid Relief Acne Sulfur Clay Mask is $44 at Sephora.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
Y’all… my office chair is absolutely wrecking my back. I’m 28 weeks pregnant and sciatica is real (was so bad for pregnancy #1 and #2 is just ramping up). I have a standing desk, but standing isn’t offering any relief. What’s a girl to do? Any random pillows or magic potion you can recommend to make the next three months not completely suck? Reality is that no chair is great, not at home nor at the office, but for my car’s driver’s seat, which doesn’t seem to be a big trigger. I’m most comfortable laying down, which doesn’t fly when I’m not WFH (80%+ of my week).
The good news is that as soon as I delivered DD the sciatic pain magically vanished. Here’s hoping the same happens this time around.
Sharing some good news… after a long journey of ttc and loss, I’m 13 weeks today with baby #2. We’re telling DS (3.5) this week and I’m a mix of excited/scared/nervous/wow do I really need to get my maternity clothes from the attic?!? I took a bit of a break from posting but always enjoy this hive :)
I was reading an earlier thread and saw that a poster combined a San Diego and Disneyland trip and took the train. I would love to do that for spring break this year with 3.5 and 5.5 year old kids. Our break is Passover (late April). Just wondering, how many days did you spend at each and how you suggest structuring the trip. Which city first and how many days at each? Where did you stay in each city? We’d be coming from the midwest so would have a connecting flight either way. What else did you do in either city? So far I’m just thinking San Diego zoo. Did you book the Disney and train tickets ahead of time? We’ve never been to disney or on a train with the kids. Thanks!
What brands of children’s clothes do you feel hold up best over time? For my first child, we have gotten most of his clothes from Target and Carter’s – I had him when I was 39 and was not expecting to have a second child, so while we kept things just in case, I wasn’t really focused on buying stuff that might truly be in good shape for a younger child and a lot of it is fairly worn. Well, here I am at 42, miraculously 20 weeks pregnant, and also needing to buy fall clothes for my growing toddler. This time around I am willing to spend a bit more money since I now know there will be a younger brother that could wear anything he gets. Any recommendations? Is Boden worth the $?
I posted maybe a year ago (maybe less?) about having a very sensitive cat and being worried about introducing a baby. I’m trying to find the old thread because I know it had helpful tips on it, but all my searching is turning up nothing. By any chance, can someone else help me find it??
We just had a vacation like that too! My kids are 5 and 6. The first year we went to the beach with a baby and a toddler I wanted to leave early because it was still so hard, but every year it got a little easier and more fun and this year was just great. In fact it was so much easier I am pondering how to uninvite my MIL and FIL from next year’s since we don’t need extra hands as much.
Just venting, because the relationship work is in progress…
My week started with a fight with DH because he left our18 mo alone with our snappy dog while I was taking my 10 minutes to get ready for work. I threw clothes on and ran downstairs to find him checking a over a screaming baby and confirming no bite marks. We’ve discussed this repeatedly, and yet somehow it was shocking to him that “You think we can never leave them together unsupervised?” I don’t think we can have them together even supervised! IMO he has a history of saying he agrees with a rule when he doesn’t actually agree, and then only following the rule when I’m around.
Now DH is mad at me because I said it makes me feel like I can’t trust him. I did not call him names or generalize that he’s a “bad dad” or anything. I don’t feel like I can trust him with the dog and the baby in the morning because he left them unsupervised and the dog snapped at the baby!
Has anyone used a sleep consultant for a toddler and had a good experience? We’ve had sleep issues with DD since she was an infant (I’m the one sometimes posting here about how she could go for more than 3 hours when we tried CIO and everything else). Well, we had a good year or so when she turned 1, and breathed a sigh of relief. But now she seems to be regressing at 2.5yo, and we’ve had an ongoing issue with extended nighttime screaming sessions over the last couple of months. We have a formula for dealing with it…but it takes 90 minutes usually, if not longer, and that’s time I would like to be asleep. Oh, and she’s decided to drop her nap! (sob)
This may the first vacation with kids that I didn’t come back from feeling totally exhausted. They are 7 and almost 5. Granted, I still felt the drudgery of making food and doing cleanup everyday (we stayed at an Airbnb) and my parents came along too, but the kids mostly entertained themselves at the beach and enjoyed our other planned activities. Older kid is still a wild child active boy, but compared to the past, meltdowns were minimal and manageable. I saw many families with a toddler and baby at the beach and I felt for them, but also felt glad for where I am in this stage of parenting! I’m sure it will get harder with other challenges soon but I’ll cherish this week. And am actually thinking about doing many more travel adventures with them! I know this site has a lot in the toddler/baby stage – it really does get better.
We went and saw my son’s favourite author this weekend and my son was the cutest fan boy – he had his tshirt, dragon toy, and his book for signing. She was so lovely in the signing, it took ages because she was really connecting with every kid. There were some pre-teens in the queue in front of us who were ridiculously excited and bonding with my 6 year old over their fandom.
And a prospective mom-friend update, she was taking her kids to the same event (realised when she got on the bus) and we hung out together before/after and we seem to have some shared interests and our boys seemed to really like each other.
A little celebration this morning – after a bit of a rocky start, my daughter seems to have adjusted very well to daycare and was all smiles at drop-off today. DH is at work and I am alone with my house with nothing specific to do (I go back to work next week) for the first time in like… a year? Of course I have plans to clean out my basement and cook various elaborate things, but I may just binge watch silly TV and then take the dog for a long walk and buy a fancy latte on the way. As an introvert, I love my family dearly but wow, being home alone is the best.
DD (8) is starting to get a lot of attitude and talk back, especially to DH. Who then gets mad that she’s being disrespectful.
Sources for scripts here? A lot of the time it’s in the morning getting out the door. And she’s kind of being a pill. But also feels like this is just a small preview of the years to come so we’d better get ready!
Dropped DS #1 off to Kinder! He was not feeling it when he woke up, lots of big emotions, complained about his uniform (although it was the same brand of shirt/bottoms as last year’s…), not having any friends, etc. Got better by breakfast, and stayed strong through drop-off. There are a few kids from his old school in his class (not his old class, though – ’tis life), so hoping that it helps.
I posted some time ago about whether to postpone TTC by a few months to do a whitewater rafting trip and to allow more time to feel ready, even though I was getting concerned about getting “old”. I ended up doing the rafting trip and we started trying after getting back. Well, it turns out I got pregnant on the first try! It’s very early days, but right now, I’m so glad we did what turned out to be a fantastic trip and that we were able to wait until we really felt ready. I’m also glad because I’m overweight and will have a high-risk pregnancy due to a well-managed chronic disease, so several providers scared me into thinking this would never happen for me. I hope this works out because the next adventure I want is motherhood :)
Now for a question: I think there are some fans of the Momma Strong program. I’ve long dealt with back pain from a chronic disc issue and I’m eager to strengthen my core during pregnancy to prevent worsening (I already do physical therapy, but need to do more). I’d like a structured, week-by-week strength program where I just have to follow prompts and not think. Would this be a good program for home workouts with almost no equipment? We live in a small apartment and don’t have room for a lot of new stuff. I do have a kettlebell, a Bosu ball, and some resistance bands. Outside of that, I plan to walk and ride my mountain bike (on safe terrain away from cars) as long as I can and to make sure I inform my doctor about it all when I have my first appointment. I was given an info packet that shows that the practice is very supportive of exercise, so that’s great. I just know I need to keep my core strong as possible to prevent relapse.