Makeup & Beauty Monday: Soy Makeup Removing Face Wash
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In the Before Times, I always kept a travel-sized bottle of Fresh’s Soy Makeup Removing Face Wash in my suitcase. Even though I haven’t gone anywhere requiring a suitcase in months, using it reminds me of more adventurous times.
I have normal to dry skin, and I love that Fresh’s face wash gently cleanses my skin without that squeaky/tight feeling. Although I usually use unscented products, I enjoy its subtle, floral scent.
This face wash contains amino acid–rich soy proteins, cucumber extract, and rosewater. It’s also “Clean at Sephora,” meaning it’s vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.
The face wash is $15–$69 at Sephora, depending on the size.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
Weekend highs and lows?
High: The weather was beautiful and we spent a lot of time outdoors. We got to see the grandparents because we could be outdoors together, which was fantastic. Older kid did his chores without complaint, which is a miracle. Younger kid was wiped out from all the fresh air and slept hard.
Low: I still am feeling so burned out by pandemic parenting. I hit a wall several times this weekend where I thought I would lose my mind if anyone asked for anything/couldn’t handle the noise and mess/etc. DH gave me some time alone Sunday afternoon, but it still wasn’t enough. :/
my 2.75 year old previously angel of a sleeper – like would lay quietly in the morning waiting for us, slept an 8+ hour stretch by 9 weeks (this was my saving grace at the time since her twin still woke up) has become a hot mess at bedtime. She doesn’t resist going to bed, even says she is tired. Happily brushes her teeth, puts on her pjs, reads a story, sleep sack etc. but then like 5 minutes or less after we leave the room she starts crying that her leg is stuck, her diaper hurts, or just crying. last night she cried for an hour! i’ve been trying to check once, and then do CIO. what’s hard is that when she cries that her leg is stuck (which it is not), her twin started yelling for someone to come to help (i guess it’s nice they care about each other). is this just testing boundaries? i thought she’d pass out last night since she did a lot of physical activity and didn’t nap
Any books or strategies to try to help a 5 year old be less sensitive? My daughter is highly sensitive to anything that she perceives to be a slight. If other kids want to play something she doesn’t want to or if she says something and it gets ignored (not intentionally but because the other kids are talking or playing and just not paying attention), then she gets her feelings hurt and gets disproportionally upset. She had a friend come over this weekend and the friend got to do something “first”–the friend wasn’t mean at all about it, she was just ready to start something before my daughter was so she went ahead. My daughter ran to the bathroom, locked herself in and was very upset. And then tried to run to her room saying she didn’t want to play anymore. I managed to calm her down and then they went back to playing and she was fine, but this is part of a larger pattern where my daughter has extreme reactions to what she feels are personal slights. To be clear, I don’t think this is just about her not getting her way, I think it’s more about her feeling like she’s not being listened to or treated fairly. Maybe? I guess I’m not sure. The thing is, my husband and I are both super sensitive as well! We also are very particular about things and feel frustrated when things don’t go exactly the way we imagined or when we feel we’re not being listened to. Obviously we’ve been able to handle this maturely as we’ve gotten older but I guess I’d say that my strategy as a teen/adult has been more of a staying silent approach, rather than actively dealing with it. I hoping I can teach my daughter to handle these situations better–to be able to speak up and feel heard but also understand that not everything is going to go exactly the way she wants it to and she needs to learn to accept that, move on, and find a different path forward. Sorry, this is long but I really want to support her, I just don’t know that my husband and I are equipped to since this is something we struggle with as well.
I had two interactions with acquaintances this weekend where I said something and I wish I would have just kept my mouth shut. Nothing overtly rude, just like “why did I bring that up?” I feel like I’m very out of practice at interacting with adults. Any advice or commiseration? I feel like the pandemic has reverted me to my awkward junior high self.
Has anyone’s kid sort of suddenly developed a dairy intolerance and did they grow out of it? 20 mo old started having diaper issues recently – ped suggested we try cutting out dairy and magically that fixed everything. Just curious if anyone else’s kid had this and if they ever grew out of it. We eat a lot of dairy so it’s just an adjustment with his meals and my other kid has never had these issues so I don’t know what to expect.
Hi — I posted last fall about my youngest possibly needing surgery for strabismus. Thanks again for all who shared stories. Surgery was the end of last week and looks like it went well! She was most nervous about the IV, after her experience with getting one for her MRI. The anesthesiologist came in and told her that she would get a mask with gas to fall asleep & then they would put in the IV. It was all smiles after that! The first two days post surgery were rough, but she’s back to normal. (Other then the creepy, bloodshot eyes – haha! School pictures next week might be interesting…) And the best news is that she is seeing single vision again immediately post-surgery. Thanks again for the support!
TL/DR: How can I counteract my child being bullied at school?
There are five girls out of 12 total kids in my daughter’s class and thanks to cohorting, they’re the only kids she ever interacts with at school or on the playground. She is good friends with one of them (A), but dislikes two of the other three, so when A plays with them, my daughter is left out. I’ve been hearing snippets for a while, but just encouraged her to keep her cool and play with some of the other kids rather than being so reliant on only one friend. Then I saw all of this first-hand at a class playground meetup over the weekend, and wow these girls are awful when they’re together. They were sneering at me and my son (“ugh, look, that’s [daughter]’s mom/brother”), sneering at my daughter for playing by herself, just a bunch of catty back-handed girl stuff. After we got home, daughter cried for a while that no one likes her, no one thinks she’s special, no one wants to be her friend. It was heartbreaking!
I have a call scheduled with the teacher to share this and hear her observations, including whether she’s recognized these other girls as instigators or if my daughter is the only one getting in trouble once they needle her enough that she blows up. I’m upset that this has been going on while the teacher is acting shocked and asking me if anything has changed at home because my daughter’s behavior at school has gone so precipitously downhill in the last couple months, and disappointed in myself for not getting to the bottom of it sooner. In parent-teacher conferences, he teacher talked about difficult dynamic among the girls in a way that I thought was mutual, but that is not what I saw. I’m not sure what to ask for, though. I can’t make anyone be my daughter’s friend, I don’t really want her moved to a different class this late in the year, and I’m not sure how this gets solved without putting a bigger target on her.
I spent a lot of one on one time with her this weekend, and set up a playdate with a neighborhood friend, and that seemed to help. But she still didn’t want to go to school this morning. Ugh. Any ideas?
Hi All. Two unrelated questions:
1) We’ll going on a (driving, socially distant, etc.) spring break trip, and our 18 year old neighbor will be stopping in to check on our cat. Suggestions on how much to pay her?
2) We’re advertising for a summer nanny for our 5 year old. I’m surprised by how many applicant’s have children. Ideally, we’ll find a college student without kids looking for a summer job. Do lots of nannies have kids? How does that typically play out? I don’t know why, but it feels odd to me.
My 10yo son had his sleep study Thursday night. I tried to make it a special adventure, complete with macaroons from whole foods. It took a solid 1-1.5hrs to hook up all the wires and belts. We played video games for a while, and I became super schooled at popping balloons on a balloon battle app (but not good enough to play against my son). He did manage to fall asleep, complete with snoring that I could hear across the room. I barely slept at all, especially when his nose thing kept falling out. No idea when we will hear results – maybe a week or two?
Does it make sense to say that I am equally nervous that it will come back as entirely behavioral versus an underlying cause?
Please reassure me my kid will be ok without playdates or one-on-one time with other kids? A lot of adults we know (including us) have been vaccinated and I’ve reached out people about outdoor, masked playdates but haven’t been able to schedule even one. It seems like daycare families mostly want to stick to socializing with families they knew before the pandemic, and the few people we saw socially before this have all opted to keep their kids home with a nanny and are worried about their kids getting Covid from our daycare kid, since the kids can’t be vaccinated. I’m just feeling kind of blue today because it was a beautiful weekend and we spent it outside and saw so many groups of kids and families playing together and it made me feel like a failure for not being able to give her that.
Does anyone here have a peloton and do you think it’d be worth getting one at this point, realizing that I’m super late to this party? I’m a former runner but with a 2 year old and an infant, it hasn’t been happening. I made up my mind to buy one, but the delivery is 8-10 weeks out and I’m having trouble deciding whether it will be worth it by then with nicer weather, etc.
Does anyone have tips for managing my 21 month old and 3 years and 9 month old at the playground? My 1 year old is always trying to touch other kids, touch their scooters, scoop up woodchips etc. It just seems like all I can do is keep him safe and can’t really engage with my almost 4 year old at all. Is this normal? my daughter seemed to better understand boundaries by 22 months, he understands no, just doesn’t really seem to care.. :sigh:
no tips, but yes, going to the playground solo with my twins from when they started walking until now (though they turned 2 right as covid started and we haven’t really gone to playgrounds since). they of course would often go in opposite directions and mostly i’d have heart palpitations trying to make sure no one broke any limbs. my goal is generally to make it out alive