LauraLara
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It does sound good! Still kind of complicated for me though... I like single ingredient products! I need to find out what ingredient is in my Aveda damage repair stuff that makes my hair feel soft but not greasy. When they try to explain it to me it's all stuff that's scientifically impossible so it's not useful. Like saying it replaces the protein lost from the cuticle. Nope. And all the stuff where they're like "it makes your hair grow faster and thicker! And helps it heal!" How fast your hair grows is genetics, nutrition and stress. And that's 98% genetics. Same with thickness. And it's dead, it can't heal, you can only prevent further damage. It takes so long to look up each individual ingredient and then try to logic it out from valid scientific sources which one it is. Anyway, I'm a conservationist so I feel like I'm using up a lot of earths resources if my product has a thousand different ingredients when one would suffice. I'm not so picky about makeup because that lasts me SO long, volume-wise I'm not using hat much, but because mousturizers and cleansers are every day and I go through so much of them, I want to be more cautious. Maybe if they're doing that type of farming where you either plant multiple crops in the same plot and harvest by hand or plant crops in areas where they're native in actual native plant communities (they do that in butterfly farms in Central America). Like if they used 10 different flower extracts but the extracts were all plants native to the same area and grown without tilling the soil or adding fertilizer. That would be awesome. I'd pay more for that no doubt. But also idk what flower extracts would do other than add fragrance... I wonder if you can use rose water for anything? That stuff is awesome. But I only ever use it to make syrup for baklava. Actually I don't anymore, I use orange blossom water now. So my rose water just sits there and does nothing but smells pretty
Do you know if any of those online "do-it-yourself" face masks work? I really want to try one! But idk where to start, they all sound kind of crazy, like egg yolks and avocado and whatnot. But that would be so fun because masks are so pricey and I always want to do a "makeover night" with the cousins, if I could make the masks with grocery store stuff we could TOTALLY do a spa day! It's so great to finally get to talk about this with someone! It makes me more determined to finally replace my ridiculously expensive face products with something better...
