I wish that Savlon was available in the US. I guess I could buy it off of Amazon. This is a great thread, it's so old though, probably most of the products suggested have been discontinued...HA! My best beauty SECRET is something I just heard about a few months ago and have been doing it ever since. While watching an older (62) youtuber (what exactly do you call these people?) she was speaking of beauty tricks and she told us that years ago, she heard a plastic surgeon say that if women would do this exercise daily, they would never need a face lift. So of course I started do this since I'm in my fifties now. What you do is make a face as if you are smiling as big as you can possibly smile, teeth together but lips apart, you tighten your neck and raise your eyebrows. Do this for 15 seconds, release and do again 10 times a day. Since I have been doing this exercise, I have noticed a remarkable change in my saggy jawline. I have also noticed that my eye lids aren't as saggy either. I will continue to do this forever! I'm sold!

If your ex were an alcoholic, would you be tormenting yourself over whether to use the word when talking to your son? Would you worry about poisoning him against his father? No, you'd say, "Son, your father is an alcoholic. Don't get in the car with him when he's been drinking, & if he's in a rage, get away from him." Tell him right now, & use the words. It's a tremendous, tremendous relief to know that the turmoil & dread you feel isn't normal & that it isn't your fault, that there *is* a real, identifiable problem, not just a personality conflict, that you aren't a piece of totally inadequate carp who doesn't deserve to live if you don't reflect glory on another person 24 hours of every day, that credit for your achievements belongs to you & not to your parent, & *that you are not the only one*; it isn't just you. It's nicer if you can tell him when things are calm, but tell him right away regardless of whatever fit his father is throwing. "I haven't gone 'clinical' because that seemed too much like 'poisoning' DS against his father, and that's really not what I want. (Took me a while to be able to say that honestly.)" but this isn't the same as tattling to a child about a husband who betrayed you in some way. It's about arming your son against abuse. I guarantee that anyone who grows up with a narcissistic parent has low self-esteem, & if that person has no knowledge of what narcissism is, he has no way to protect himself against further battering of his emotions & his sense of self. By not telling your son that his father has this massive personality disorder, you are not only failing to protect your son, you are protecting & enabling his father.

I started watching this when they had the marathon on over the weekend. Are today's teens really so sex-obsessed? I swear the word sex is said every 5 seconds on that show. If my mother ever suggested that I masturbate when I was a teen, I'd probably still be sitting in that same spot, stunned, 25 years later. There are only about 3 characters that I like (Ben, his dad and his dad's girlfriend). I think it could be much better but it still managed to draw me in. I like the humor and the drama even though the focus on sex makes me shake my head.

I just re-watched TiMER, which is set in a future in which you can get an implant that will count down until the moment when you meet the one person you are meant to be with. But it only works if your "one" also has a timer. Oona is about to turn 30 and is getting increasingly desperate because her timer hasn't started counting down yet. Her sister is floundering because her timer did go off--but she won't meet her "one" for another 13 years. The technology is more fantasy than science, but it makes for an interesting backdrop to look at people's reactions to knowing/not knowing/wanting to know/not wanting to know.