Vinegar is a good fabric softener by itself (use white vinegar) and it's also an excellent odor remover. When vinegar dries the smell is gone. Back when I used to use softener, I'd I started to dilute the softener, put it in a spray bottle and use a washcloth rather than use dryer sheets. Give it a couple sprays and toss it in the dryer. But since I learned to not overdry the clothes, static isn't an issue of any consequence and half a dozen dryer balls fluff and soften towels, jeans and the like. Plus not overdosing with detergent makes a big difference too. I'm getting more and more sensitive to chemical smells. I get a headache going down a laundry aisle these days. Then there's the ones who are in competition with themselves... the smell from the laundry, then they marinate in cheap perfume or cologne, then add a powerful hairspray and deodorant to top it off!

All fabric softener, whether liquid from the clothes or dryer sheets will coat the lint filter and sensors in a dryer. If you truly must use fabric softener all you need to do is take some alcohol and wipe the sensors every few months and pull the lint filter and clean it with a soft brush and some dish soap and water. Make sure the water runs through it easily and you're fine. Actually, even if you don't use softener you should occasionally wash the filter from the lint dust and such. And you should regularly clean the vent and the dryer of lint and buildup. You'd be amazed how many house fires start every year because of this negligence, which of course raises insurance rates for everyone. If you're a camper save some of the lint for starting fires and you'll understand why so many houses go up in flames. For years I used a washcloth and softener in a spray bottle diluted about 1:4 with water. I also would use just a part of a dryer sheet and yes even reuse the sheets several times. Worked fine. The sheets that have little cuts in them at a couple inches or so worked fine to just tear into strips, otherwise, I'd just cut them up. I don't like the smell of softener nor the feel. After dumping out bottles of the stuff and it plugged up my drain so the pipes had to be replaced (it was like concrete in there) I quit and never looked back. What does that do to humans? I don't like my clothes to smell. When they smell, it's time to wash them in my opinion. If you have static problems, you're overdrying the clothes. Cut the drying time and you save energy costs and costs of softener... AND eliminate the static! Vinegar is a good option since vinegar will help cut the excess soap out of the clothes. Although, if you don't overdose your laundry detergent, and so many way overdo it, you wouldn't have much trouble. But it also helps in the northland in the winter when the water temps are lower. Making powdered laundry detergent isn't as difficult as making liquid/gel. But I usually get detergent cheap enough that it doesn't pay to bother making it. I think people too often get so hung up on we've ALWAYS done it this way and get brainwashed by commercials that they lose site of the objective. For me, I want my clothes clean. I don't need a $3000 washer and 17 different chemicals to accomplish this.

Susan, what a pretty girl! I think you're hairstyle is very becoming on you. It would be easy to wear in different ways, too, and to jazz it up for an occasion. I like it very much. HERE is my haircut, not me in the picture, but my style. My wonderful stylist has helped me discover my quite curly hair and to take advantage of it. I can wear it curly, or sweep it back or blow it out to be poufy or sleek......anything. She has convinced me to not color my hair and I am loving the S&P and streaks at the temple. I used to think that I was a drip-dry kind of gal, but it's really not true! I have several products that I use religiously and a couple that I've only recently been introduced to. Another Dove soap user here, for as long as I can remember. I also use two products by UNICURE, an odd ball brand but I'll cry if they stop making it. My mother sent me my first bottle when I was in college. I use their blue shampoo but it is their conditioner that I purchase by the gallon. Seriously. I use it after the shower all over, absolutely on my wet hair as a leave in conditioner/volumizer/bodifier. I wash my face with it at night and apply it to my face after my shower and before makeup. The stuff is a magic elixer for my hair, especially! Limp, thin, and fine textured hair by nature but not what I end up with with a little bit of the Unicure. If I don't use it, my hair ends up flat. My hair stylist introduced me to Paul Mitchell's Conditioning Sculpting Foam with Flexible Hold. It has a red top, if you look for it. Applied to towel dried hair in a small amount, it turns my thinning hair to what appears to be very thick. I use it when I'm going to let my hair air dry or style it. After a brushing, my hair is left bouncy, full, shiny, and soft. I had no idea that a styling foam could do that. My night time moisturizer is coconut oil, sometimes day and night in the winter. Susan, do you have the eyebrow product on in the picture? If so, I don't think it would be dark enough for me. Your brows have the perfect shape, by the way.

If it is only showing up on his forehead and cheeks, it could be the shampoo. Try to find a shampoo without Sodium Laurel Sulfate. Difficult to find but they are out there. Does he wash his face with any other products? Something mild like Aveeno might be worth a try. I'd have a dermatologist check for rosacea, which is also accompanied by small broken blood vessels. Any product he is using could make rosacea worse. Even toothpaste has it and I realized recently that some of the other added ingredients in toothpaste was affecting my gums and the inside of my cheeks like a sloughing off of skin. I switched to a more 'regular' toothpaste without all the whiteners, etc and it stopped. Weird and creepy but that's what it was I think.