Easy homemade lip balm recipe
A couple of months ago, at the height of the driest part of winter, my lips were staying dry and chapped despite everything I did. I tried several different lip balms, all of which helped for a few minutes to a few hours, but then my lips would go right back to where they'd...
3 ways to recycle used coffee grinds for your beauty routine
I keep reading that used coffee grounds are good for cellulite - well, as good as any of the other products out there, which charge scandalously for short-term results you can get with used coffee grinds. But it also seems like it would be a good, cheap and safe for sensitive...
Turn loose eyeshadow powder into pressed
You can turn loose or broken eyeshadows into solid pressed powder with ordinary household stuff and a little free time. I hunted down and tested several online tutorials for doing this and found this simple method actually works. It's also great for mixing your own colors out...
51 Salsa Recipes & Tips
Salsa is one of those foods where there's a big difference between fresh made and store bought. I'm not sure why this is, but there's a vibrancy to homemade salsa that's missing from even the best brands at stores.
And you can make salsa at home very cheaply - sometimes...
21 tips for what to do if you get laid off
It feels like companies are laying off employees right and left in this horrific economy where there aren't nearly enough jobs to go around. Some of the layoffs are due to the economy, but even companies that are making money are laying people off, and it doesn't seem to...

Whether you’re trying to lose weight or just keep healthy, sugar in all its forms is something you really need to moderate. Unfortunately, for reasons I’ve never grasped, processed foods have tons of sugar. It’s not just in sweet-tasting foods or foods you think of as sugary, either. It’s a filler ingredient, and it’s stuffed into everything. Here’s why cutting out at least some of this ingredient could be beneficial to your health:
What High Fructose Corn Syrup Is
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“Tell me a little bit about yourself.” If you love hearing that question, you probably won’t get much out of this post. If, on the other hand, it fills you with dread and/or you can’t think of any answer to give, this post was written just for you.
The trouble with this question is that it’s so open-ended. Generally, it’s asking for boring factoids – where are you from, where did you go to school, are you married and have you ...
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You can make chicken wings at home, and there are many more options than the hunt for the perfect buffalo sauce. Chicken wings are popular treats in cultures around the world, and there are lots of recipes to choose from. Here are just a few:
TipNut’s Honey Garlic Wings
ChowHound’s Buffalo-style hot wings
Sweet-hot grilled wings
Detroit Honey Hot Wings
A very simply Buffalo-style recipe
Bandito Chicken Wings
Japanese Chicken Wings
Apricot preserves wings
Buffalo recipe for campers – very simple!
Dijon Wings
Chinese grilled wings
Classic Buffalo wings w/ bleu cheese ...
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LifeHacker recently got a really cool suggestion from a reader. Before I tell you what it is, let me explain GTD briefly for anyone who doesn’t know about it. It’s an organization system with a very specific process. The idea behind it is that it stresses your brain when it’s full of things you ought to do or might someday want to do, and GTD gives you a way to “dump” all those thoughts before they can stress you out ...
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Store-bought furniture polish is not particularly environmentally friendly, and can irritate the respiratory systems in some people. There’s a better option: make your own furniture polish out of two parts olive oil to one part lemon juice. You can substitute vegetable oil for the olive oil, and you should not use virgin olive oil. This recipe is for finished wood.
To polish unfinished wood, dissolve a teaspoon of lemon oil into a cup of mineral oil. In this recipe, you don’t ...
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Wind chimes are one of the easiest crafts you could make. They don’t need to be fancy: you just need some materials that dangle and make a nice clinking noise, then you fasten them all to something long (like an old knife) or circular (old embroidery hoops, hubcaps, etc.) and you’ve got a wind chime.
I’m not really going to give you a how-to, because I already pretty much did when I said you attach dangly things to a base. All ...
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Unfortunately, motion sickness can happen to anyone. Researchers believe it’s caused by the fact that your body feels itself moving, but your eyes are seeing the vehicle’s interior as stationary, which confuses our poor lizard brains and throws us off balance.
To minimize your chances of experiencing motion sickness:
Drive. The driver’s eyes are focused on moving objects, which matches the movement the rest of the body is feeling.
Travel on a full stomach. It sounds counter-intuitive, but eat before you travel and ...
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