Mowglik we are having a houseguest this week. When she went out for walk last evening I did my quick sheet mask - peeling it off when she rang the doorbell! I am used to the quips from DH and DC but not just ready to share this yet with the rest of the world - except you of course 
There was a lot of gunk left from the açai mask, I thought it would never absorb, and then I just put on some red wine jelly, and everything has absorbed overnight. Nothing on my pillow!
Excited about all A-Sol stories (Lucysmam thanks for the brilliant link) and looking forward to hearing from packages and samples! AHAs/BHAs have helped me a lot so really interested in giving these a try!
Bigbuttons I am really happy for how good you feel about yourself and so grateful that you helped to kick off these threads! Skincare has always been a depressing thing for me, cannot believe how much more fun it is now! The social aspect, people's stories, blogs, shelfies and the threads here are really making it so much more interesting!
Our guest is a brilliant person and last night over a glass of wine she started talking about the sociology of food, how certain diets or certain foods or even certain places to shop (the farmer's market movement, shopping at Whole Foods, going gluten free, Paleo, raw food...) define people and are sometimes taking the place of religion in our lives. We worship certain ingredients, have rituals and taboos, holy texts (for example, a diet book or an influential blog - or Reddit AB), and even testimonials ('going sugar-free transformed my skin'). In her analysis this meant very deep internalization of consumer culture (a disturbing thought), but also that we are building online communities that replicate real-world religious communities and their interactions but have a different core message. I immediately thought that may just have joined the Church of the Sheet and Sleep Mask and even grown evangelical about it - My friend have you heard the good news...