Swears By Mumsnet recommends September 2018

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Hi everyone! As some of you may know, every week we trawl the boards to pick out the products MNers are 'swearing by'.

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This week, there was a lot of love for the River Island Amelie Jeans (from £40) on this thread, with @Liefster exclaiming "I wouldn't buy anything else now!”

Click here to take a look at the "magical" jeggings Mumsnetters were loving on 9th September.

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For me, it's Philip Kingsley Elasticizer. Unfortunately I seem to have killed the thread that I recommended it on!

After several weeks in the sun, my hair was looking less like hair and more like a hay stack. I was a frazzled mess. Just one application of the Elasticizer made it smooth and glossy again, and I've been applying it a couple of times a week since. Highly recommended.

Ooh well I recommend this all the time on here, but it's not a product so much - it's a book! Sarah ockwell Smith gentle sleep book. It is the very best book I've ever read, explained all about what's normal for infant sleep and some gentle ideas on how to improve it, but most of all it helped me to accept things as they are. She's a brilliant author and I highly recommend all her books.

Oops I've just realised this is in style and beauty! Oh well it's still my top buy!

For beauty sleep

Is that photograph supposed to be nice? make us think those jeans are desirable??

Yes Lexer I was a bit puzzled by that picture too. Sausage legs is a pretty apt description.
John Lewis & brother deep v slouchy cashmere jumper. I’ve just ordered the bright blue and it’s a really good price. In fact all the cashmere prices look good compared to other brands and many have sold out in one day.

I love the Opus Gosta “sweatshirt.” It’s not really a sweatshirt at all but more like a thin sweater that doesn’t cling, is not cropped, isn’t too short, is a lovely shade of blue in person, and feels SO soft to the touch.
www.amazon.co.uk/Opus-Womens-Gosta-Sweatshirt-Comfort/?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Yes I can happily recommend Boots Beauty From Within Liquid Collagen drink.

I've been suffering with an acne breakout and my lower cheeks were really really sore and red.

I'm on day 14 now and it's improved so much, I'm over the moon as I've tried so many products. It's also helped with the dry skin on my hands.

The collagen drink is much more expensive than id usually be able to afford but I'm desperate as I start a new job soon and really want my skin to calm down before then. I bought three boxes using the 3 for 2 offer.

I meant to add a link, sorry:

www.boots.com/boots-beauty-from-within-collagen-liquid-10-days-supply-10220327

So if this is affiliate advertising where you receive money by posting links does that mean you will ONLY post links where you have this arrangement rather than being impartial? What’s the benefit to users of the site?

My absolute bargain find of the month is these boots direct.asda.com/george/women/shoes/black-leather-chelsea-boots/GEM656604,default,pd.html

Fantastic quality for the money and perfect for work

My Fjallraven Kanken backpack. I got it 18 months ago, use it every day and it's still going strong. And the foam insert has been incredibly useful, both for sitting on and has also been used instead of a pillow if I need to breastfeed while in a park or on the beach.

Such catty comments about a pair of jeans being modelled by a n average sized woman.
Delighted for you perfect ladies that have perfect pins and feel they can stand in judgement!

Mumsnet...

*Sausage legs is a pretty apt description.
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Shame on you. What an utterly cuntish thing to think, let alone actually type and post.

Would you say that to a woman to her face?

Where’s the woman?
It’s just a random pair of legs with some very tight unflattering jeans on. Definitely not showcasing this jeans brand in its best light.

Think you are missing the point.

These legs belong to a real woman. I am quite shocked at the negative remarks by women about the size of a pair of legs and that they do not flatter a pair of jeans enough to advertise them .

I really hope none of you have children that you project your views of acceptability onto.

Shame on you.

I have several kids and yes I do make sure they eat a healthy diet,so
they don’t become overweight. But this is entirely incidental to this thread. This is a pair of fat legs in unflattering jeans. I’m not white-washing or fat shaming anyone.Its purely the truth. I’m not particularly skinny myself and am well aware I need to lose weight. Which is very hard in today’s world.
Stop trying to politicise unhealthy body shapes.

You need to take a long, hard look at yourself.

Let the haters hate ..

Come on...to be honest it looks like River Island are trying to be so "politically correct" that they've pictured some very unattractive legs in some very unattractive jeans.

Teta has said what we've all been thinking but are too "politically correct" that we're afraid to say it.

They are average legs. Normal legs. Aren’t they?
You’ll always get someone making bitchy remarks but really these are just normal legs.

@remus thanks for the tip. Just back from holiday and my hair (which is coarse and frizzy at the best of times) is desperate! I’m going to give it a go.

@zippyswife. Not my normal. May be yours?

Plus bloody ugly jeans.