Glow by Lady E

  I bought these Mumuso Milk Extract Ultra-Soft Pocket Tissues because, well, look at the little cow. And it says Milk Extract! This is the first time I’m seeing tissue with milk extract.  Of course I bought them. 😂 And they are soft. In fact, I discovered that they’re particularly nice to have when you have a cold and need to keep blowing your nose. You know how regular tissue eventually starts feeling rough when you’ve been using it over and over? This one is much gentler. But there’s something strange about it. The tissue feels slightly damp or cold when I touch it. Not actually wet. Just… cool in a way ordinary tissue isn’t. And then there’s the scent. I’m not a fan. There’s something about the combination of the scent and that slightly cold feeling that makes the tissue feel chemically treated to me. Maybe that’s part of whatever makes it so soft. I don’t know. What I do know is that while I appreciate how gentle it is on my nose, especially because I get rashes with a...

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what stays.  Choosing beauty.  I said that I no longer let things stay that are not aligned with the life I’m building now.  That’s somewhat easier to say about non-tangible things. But what if it’s something - a product, an item, that I just bought? How do I deal with that? Do I throw it away or give it away immediately? What I’m learning in this journey is that I need to let different aspects of my being decide.  With product, of course my body decides.  No matter how much I like something, if my body says no, I stop. Like the lotion above.  The scent lingered too loudly on my skin.  I kept coughing.  But I had just bought it.  And I didn’t quite want to let go of it yet.  So I waited a few days and tried to think of something to do with it.    If my body says a loud no to some products, she also says a loud yes to some.  Like this soap. I didn’t think much of it.  I just saw the big...