Shopping and Product Reviews

Pregnancy is a wonderful time for most women, and a time when you see some amazing and miraculous changes taking place.  Unfortunately one change which I didn't consider quite so amazing, was the appearance of unsightly stretch marks across my entire midsection.  At the time, I was more focused on this beautiful baby growing inside me, but after the birth and several months of breastfeeding, the stretchmarks seemed to spread like a rash out of control! These kind of scars can have a terrible effect on your self-esteem and even rob you of your joy during a time that should be one the happiest of your life.  I was in no hurry to get into my bikini and take my baby swimming with these stretchmarks all over the place. I since have learned that I was not alone in this problem.  Women all over the world suffer with these after pregnancy, and don't even realize that it can be remedied.  We are informed of all different treatments for the essentials like sore nipples fr...

I've been designing and making furniture for over a decade now and have tried every dust mask known to man. They either hurt my face, fogged my glasses, slid down my face, got too hot, or came loose and I ended up coughing up gross stuff. The list goes on, but after my annual visit with my Doctor about 8 months ago, I got a real wake-up call about lung disease. As it turns out, sawdust is more harmful to the lungs than smoking. It was only by chance that I finally discovered the dust mask I now use and I'd like to tell you about the pros and cons of wearing it. I first saw it in the shop of my friend (and competitor) about seven months ago. A really talented new guy started working in his shop. This guy always wore his dust mask and said he'd been using the same one every day for four years! I didn't think that was even possible. He just washes it out at night starts fresh the next day. When I saw that, I ordered one online and I am really pleased with it. Everything th...