Lip masks / hydrating lip balms with no shea butter nor vitamin E?

Due to a medical condition, I have very dry peeling / cracking lips that make it hard to be hydrated. I have tried: hurraw, ellovi, crazy rumors, eccolips, blissoma, dr. pawpaw, goldfaden MD, three ships, and true botanicals. (Aquaphor and Vaseline, and similar products, and does not work for me neither).

I know that my lips / skin hate shea butter and vitamin E I think tends to make my lips drier unless a lot of ingredients can counteract it. It seems my lips love cocoa butter as booda butter worked the best for me and in general I've noticed cocoa butter works well for my skin, though it was still not enough and it was too glossy on my lips. Looking for something I can use in the day (and recommendations that are good which are glossy for night are fine too, though I need something in the day also). Also it should have no or low glycerin at most, since I also don't do well with that either. I think I would have been able to do well with the iota / Táche Pistachio Milk Latte Lip Treatment if it wasn't for the shea butter in it, so I guess my lips like ceramides / peptides / plant stem cell stuff, or something like that since it is in the ingredient list.

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u/koreancutie1 — 3 days ago
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How possible / helpful is a furniture-free / furniture-minimal life for us?

I recently came across the concept of living a furniture-free / furniture minimal lifestyle and seems to have many benefits including encouraging more movement, strengthening body and helping with aches and pains, opening up more living space, and one can include various modes of fun transportation (i.e. monkey bars). For someone like us with hEDS (and on top of that I also have POTS, MCAS, Raynaud's), how safe is this kind of lifestyle for us? What kind of modification(s) if any for this sort of lifestyle would I need to make? I already know I love and have found relief sleeping on the floor, so I want to get a korean soil bed / marble bed for this reason, and I do prefer sitting on the floor while eating if it will be a while because it helps with the pain. Any thoughts / feelings / feedback / advice?

Sources: https://nutritiousmovement.com/articles/why-i-went-furniture-free and https://nutritiousmovement.com/articles/your-pillow-is-an-orthotic and https://nutritiousmovement.com/articles/cleaning-up-our-sleep

u/koreancutie1 — 24 days ago

Anyone know where I can buy a vegan soil / marble bed?

I saw online a soil / marble bed though pretty sure the headboard it comes with is made of leather. I don't even care about whether it comes with a headboard or not, just looking for an all-hard surface korean soil / marble bed that can be ordered to the U.S. (hopefully with not too much shipping costs), and ability to turn off the heating system if possible. At least a Queen size if possible also, preferably King or Alaska King

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u/koreancutie1 — 26 days ago
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The P.O. feeling I feel, knowing the Asian motherland countries like Hong Kong now allow dogs in restaurants, makes me wonder if low-grade suicide is an issue for my people. This can be the only answer for this ever-growing dog nuttery despite contradicting the general culture's values stand for.

Just read an article about how non-guide dogs are now allowed at 900 approved restaurants in Hong Kong. I know even here in the U.S. both the childfree couples and even sometimes Asian American families have a little froufrou evil little gremlin or more. Which has made me come to the most obvious and only conclusion that makes sense to me trying to comprehend why... and it is because my people are generally experiencing low-grade suicide out of self-hatred / lack of will to thrive as much as they can.

I know there is dog propoganda, though really for my race / culture known for, and actually generally is into having good hygiene, looking good / aesthetic, experiencing free / leisure time every now and then, being intelligent, etc. it seems and really is a complete contradiction to therefore want / like dogs and have dogs in one's life. Dogs will eat all the things that I can't even stomach to say here, always smell even if shampooed every day which includes their breath, place their butthole everywhere: opposite of hygiene. Dogs can maul your face or at least injure it and then you will be ugly forever or at least temporarily, they will slob / puke / rip one's clothes and accessories : opposite of looking good. Will bark and could even make you deaf, take you on their poop patrol daily that you need to pick up when you could be doing other things, and can kill your child: opposite of health and thriving. Like wtf, what's the point of even taking a multivitamin and counting your macros if you're going to have a dog lol, it makes not logical sense.

I'm so disappointed in my people's lack of sense when it comes to dogs, and while I do have a theory there is some sort of psychological / biological parasitical sort of hijacking on the brain dogs create in humans, this level of dog nuttery (which can only possibly be rivaled by white people, though idk it seems like my people are trying to compete now to be just as stupid and give white people a run for their money), I do now believe part of this is low-grade suicidality. I believe a lot of people (not just Asian people) don't actually want to kill themselves and go through with it, so they take up life decisions that sort of "scratch that itch" and satisfy suicidality a little, by making decisions that kind of "decay" at their life. I believe one of the most popular ways Asians are "scratching that itch" is by getting these little froufrou satan's gremlins. I believe a lot of Asians of all socioeconomic levels and various backgrounds experience this low-grade suicidality especially (even though they "save face" in public), and the ones who experience this low-grade suicidality the most, are the Asians who are dog nutters. It disgusts me even when a fellow Asian person (really any person though I mostly surround myself around others of my race), who either wants to befriend me or be in a relationship with me says they will "sacrifice" not having a dog if it means they could have me in their life, because I see that the "dog nutter mentality" is still there; such a person is still way below my innate intelligence level, compassion level, and hygienic level to be able to tolerate the relationship and really have anything meaningfully significant in common. So it sucks as this dog nuttery level spreads, it even affects those yet who do not have a dog (yet) also. All the oblivious (or not so oblivious) narcissism and degeneracy before the dog is even in their life.

*sigh* I never thought I would grow up to want people to have children, but if encouraging having children will lower the rates of dog nuttery (which is no guarantee but it seems from my observations to work to some degree, with all these nutters using these evil gremlins as "substitute" babies, *breathes into the brown paper bag*), then I'm going to encourage people who don't completely suck or still have some hope to have children instead. I thought maybe the homeland would be a great place to retire, live, and so on and so forth... but if it's all literally going to the dogs, ughhhhhhhh, nowhere safe enough on this planet now.

My theory is that as the dog nuttery continues the people of my Asian race, it will partially continue to depopulate (which could eventually lead to extinction when taken to the extreme) Asian people, as I believe it has been doing with white people. If any race / ethnicity rides hard for dog nuttery, then it is the beginning of the end of any non-degeneracy and population of that race. And yes, I believe it is low-grade suicidality and / or love for degeneracy over living and thriving to the best of one's ability. That's why I believe loving dogs is as close to evil and a sin as possible. Someone who loves dogs (and is not naive of what they are), might as well be a p***, unaliver, racist, sexist, etc. because really they share those values in some form or another for giving the green light for dogs to be around us and live out their degenerate evil behavior.

This is my second rant, and while I'm not entitled to anyone's comments (because I'm no entitled dog nutter lol), I would appreciate thoughtful replies and conversation, because I have no one else who understand and will sympathize with my rant. This is my second rant on here, this was my first one I ever made if you are interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dogfree/comments/1qzxdug/homemade_furrero_rocher_chipuple_may_the_world/

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u/koreancutie1 — 1 month ago

Help a young newbie out with knowing when one should fold something or hang it, and which type of hanger (i.e. velvet, plastic, cedar wood, clothes pin one, and so on and so forth)

It may not matter to some, though being a perfectionist makes my lil heart happy, so I was wanting to know how to tell for each article of clothing whether it needs to be: folded, velvet hanger, cedar wood hanger, plastic hanger, clothes pin hanger, hanger with hooks, and so on and so forth). I've tried looking online and all the information overwhelmed me and some of it contradicted itself, so I'm hoping someone can give me a quick summary of how to tell or the best way to simplify what is needed. Thank you <3

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u/koreancutie1 — 2 months ago

Would this be an equal comparable dyson airwrap coanda2x dupe or all the dupes out there not as good as the dyson?

An influencer talked about on amazon, the dreame pocket aura hair dryer and is being sold for $199.99 plus can be used in other countries (and not linking as I'm not advertising / selling it). Do you think this would be comparable alongside the dyson airwrap coanda2x? It supposedly has a sensor also like the nural and won't go above a certain temperature. I wanted to know anyone's opinion(s) about dupes since I know nothing about them. The one thing that is making me hold out for the airwrap coanda2x is that it doesn't have this gun style that the dreame hair dryer and most hair dryers have, which would be easier on my joints as I have hEDS. Plus still waiting for a color that I like (as I'm not a fan of the amethyst and the apricot I only slightly like better, which is not saying much)

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u/koreancutie1 — 2 months ago

Hairdresser is booked day and time I need an appointment. Anyone can recommend a hairdresser who can style hair for a special event and specializes in Asian women hair that is stubborn and semi-damaged?

i need a certain time and day next month for an appointment, though my hairdresser is booked. Anyone know of a sane and kind hairdresser who could style my hair in big curls but like a modern Farah Fawcett style on stubborn semi-damaged Asian hair, to last all day? Preferrably a hairdresser who uses more “natural” products also. Thanks in advance.

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u/koreancutie1 — 3 months ago

I'm wanting to learn how to become more thrifty / save money more than I already do. Are there any high quality items for homemaking at the dollar tree? For instance, is any of the facial tissues equivalent to soft puffs or soft kleenex tissue? Is the toilet paper there just as good as charmin? Are the batteris sold there just as good? Any homemaking favorites you have from the dollar tree / dollar store?

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u/koreancutie1 — 4 months ago

I've tried the Japanese sticky paper, which worked better than the generic lint rollers and the most horrendous ones which are the red cloth reusable ones. Though the Japanese sticky paper one still wasn't good enough for my standards and left some lint still and make a shirt more "fuzzy," with the sticking on the fibers of cotton clothes especially. I've seen there are lint / fuzzy shirt shavers though I've heard they don't work, and I've tried a regular shaver and all it did was create holes in my shirt.

Can anyone let me know the best (I don't care about budget, I will use for what works), for getting rid of lint and fuzz / lint remover to make shirts last longer? Specific link products would be helpful

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u/koreancutie1 — 4 months ago