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High school and college chemistry labs are equipped with eye wash stations. When I was a kid learning first aid, we were told that every home needs an eye cup. This horrified me greatly because let's face it - putting stuff in your eyes is scary. And no, I don't wear contacts, how did you guess? Fast forward a few decades. I work in a lab some days so yes, we have the necessary safety stuff. But what really got me was spraying medicine on my dog's tail at home. I sprayed upwards to treat the underside (duh!) and lots of dog medicine landed on my eyeball. On my sprint to the bathroom to wash hands first I realized I didn't have any sterile saline. I gushed eyedrops into my stinging eye. No good. I went to the kitchen, filled a glass with water and poured it over my smarting eye several times. Much better - but now my eye was sore and bloodshot from the saline-free tap water. This sort of thing can happen any time. Spray-on products, preservatives or additives you might u...

Where I live, winters tend to be cold and dry. I use an electric humidifier indoors to keep my nose and eyes and lungs and skin and hair happier. But I also use a natural evaporative humidifier. Perhaps you've heard of it. It's called "Clean Wet Laundry." I should add that when the temperature is below 50°F (10°C) laundry doesn't get fully dry if hung outdoors here and when colder than that, my fingers freeze before the laundry is all hung out. If you buy a couple indoor laundry racks or are able to string a clothesline in your dwelling and not pull out the drywall, you can save several dollars (or more depending on your family size) per month on power. Your stretchy jeans won't shrink as much. Your clothes will actually last longer. I like to set my drying racks over the floor heat vents so the air passes around the clothes, drying them faster and spreading the humidity around. Laundry racks are a bit of an investment up-front, but they pay for themselves ove...

What do you do when you get those in between haircut blahs, but you're not ready for a full haircut or you want to let yours grow? Micro-trim! Some people call it "dusting the ends" but that's hardly accurate. Hair doesn't grow evenly. The ends that were once neat and tidy get a little fringe-y and that can cause your entire look to get a little more shaggy than you like. This video is the clever and lovely Pedaheh of the Wavy Library to show you how to do a micro-trim and what a big difference it makes immediately. Cheap. Easy. Fun. Great hair at home.