Color cosmetics, body lotion, magazines, lip balm, hand cream, sun screen, bubble bath, shower gel, clay mask, nail polish, bar soap,deodorant... the list goes on and on.

You choose to exchange your energy for the products you bring into your life. The selection of objects brought into the home is part of being a woman. The gathering part of "hunter-gatherer."

It is possible that thoughtful choices are better than choices made out of habit. It is certainly true that thoughtful choices are better than choices made through coersion, however insidiously subtle.

Discernment, differentiation, selection, purchase, use and the choice to buy again or not. All those actions benefit from information.

It is easy to succumb to the seduction of promotion, perceived value and the lassitude of habit. Buying an expensive face cream because a famous person uses it is an example of this. The logic appears to be something like this: if a person who can choose anything chooses this, it must be the best. Challenging this way of thinking is the first step toward taking back your face.