Susan Silver‘s home town is LA and she told me about this great link to track the LA Food truck scene!
http://www.foodtrucksmap.com/la/
too bad that kobi tacos go only as far as Toyota in Torrance (but I admit, it makes sense to go there than come to a residential beach cities neighborhood…)!
If you can stand the heat, steaming with water is simple, free, and very effective. It can be a precursor to most other facial treatments, although salons will use steaming machines rather than have you hovering over a steaming pot.
You can add herbs or essential oils to the hot water before draping a towel over your head and hovering above the pot for as many minutes as you can stand. I’ve even tried mixing Noxema with cornmeal then exfoliating after steaming to get rid of loosened skin cells (that just sound so attractive doesn’t it)!
In terms of scientific safety, it depends on how you define “safe”. Facials that promise to smooth your skin have exfoliants (these can be synthetic, which would be “milder” because the synthetic exfoliating beads would be round, versus apricot kernels, which when broken could have micro edges that can be too much for sensitive skin) that are abrasive however mild.
Even chemical peels can make your skin raw if the chemical (usually an acid of some sort such as glycolic acid or salicylic acid) content is too high and your skin is very sensitive. Even those enzyme peels act by “chewing” the bonds holding skin together, chemically sloughing skin. For some, chemical peels can be problematic because it can burn your skin, make you more sensitive to the sun, and otherwise cause an allergic or adverse reaction. Start with a lower percentage for example 5% glycolic rather than jumping into 10% or even 12% if you want to go the chemical route.
Then there’s physical peel-type of masks, which literally glues onto your skin and “lifts” off whatever blackheads or cysts or skin debris that is stuck on the glue.”
The way that these facial treatments “improve” complexion is by sloughing off dead cells so that your new skin cells and grow and come to the surface. So actually it’s your own skin that is doing the “improving”, the facial acts primarily to remove old and dead cells so that your younger new skin cells become visible on the surface.
P.S. All the above were “knowledge” from my younger years when I had lots of time to mess around with my face and try different things. Now as a mom I consider myself “pampered” if I washed my face with whatever soap’s handy and slap on moisturizer with sunscreen.
Those of you in the manhattan beach / north redondo zip codes – what on earth is that ominous sound ringing through the neighborhood? It sounds almost like an air raid going on.
Yes there is really a blog about that.
It’s hilarious too! My favorite one is:
“Your mother’s day gift is my meteoric rise to fame.”
On some days I’m glad I have no daughters…
Not to keep quoting the Economist but… it had a recent article about healthcare and why competition hasn’t driven down prices (hence making the case for government backed healthcare), and it cited gas prices as evidence that competition in some cases only sets market price to see how much consumers can bear, without necessarily driving it *down*.
Well, come to California and you’ll see that The Economist is yet again, correct. The Shell station at the corner of Prospect and Beryl has one of the highest prices in the neighborhood and it’s still in business, so someone’s buying.
And I don’t want to hear Europeans talking about how Americans are just paying what everyone else has been paying… we are comparing our gas prices today to our gas prices in the past, we’re not interested in comparing our gas prices to your gas prices.
