The Truth About Maternity Pants…
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…is that you don’t need them! During pregnancy your abdomen expands, duh, but your pants don’t. Okay, got that already. However, most of the time you can put your pants on, you just can’t zip them up! But what would that matter if you simply wore a top that draped well below your waist AND you had a way to stop your pants rom falling off without resorting to suspenders!?
Ingrid & Isabel Bella Band Accessory is a way for you to put on your pants, pull them up to where is comfortable, leave the zipper open and then keep your pants tucked underneath the broad band. You can walk around with confidence that your pants are going to stay put
In the illustration you can see how this wide elasticized band snuggles securely against your lower mid-section holding your pants comfortably in place. The band is available in white with or without a lace border This band is an undergarment
So instead of buying more clothes, you can buy a couple of these and you’re set. This also works if you are gaining weight–temporarily, or otherwise–and can no longer close your pants comfortably. 
Here is the Ingrid & Isabel Lace Trim Bella Band Accessory which can be worn as a discrete undergarment without anyone being the wiser
Now of course if you’ve got your heart set on getting maternity pants stop by the Maternity Mall.
The Truth About Toilets…
Toilets are an essential in every home and one that is highly under appreciated for the job it does. It is one of those things you don’t really notice until you don’t have it available. I learned this lesson all to hard when my daughter flushed my cell phone down the toilet.
The key to functional toilets is in the plumbing which has to be made so that the connections are clean.
There is a thick 1 inch wax seal that loosely connects your porcelain toilet to the top of the pipe at the base of your toilet. This seal is an essential part of the plumbing and the key to keeping your room sanitary and free of foul smells. Everytime you do any work with your toilets, you should replace the seal with a new seal. When tightening your toilet down, you should make sure that you don’t tighten it so tightly that you could crack your porcelain.
A toilet is unique in it’s float system of controls. This system uses no electricity to function. It is a gravity and float system, controlled by the hand flush.
You push the flush and it lifts the plug the keeps the water in the tank. The tank empties and the float valve lowers because the top level of the water goes down. That opens the valve that fills the tank and the water comes in until the float valve is back to the set top of what you want the tank to fill.
There is such a huge variety in toilets to consider when you are remodeling or getting your new porcelain. You can choose from a huge variety of colors. White is the over all leader in color though. You can also choose from a huge selection of styles. There are styles that go from wide for the more obese users, all the way to the very bizarre. There are styles where the tank is kept up by the ceiling away from the seat.
The flush handles also come in a variety. There are some that are pull handles, some that are push in buttons, and most are the pull down tabs. The pull down tabs are what seems are the preferred style of flushes.
Best of luck with your new remodel or home purchase.
Written by Jennifer Hitchcock - Visit WebsiteThe Truth About Lingerie…
…..is that– depending on one’s lifestyle, customs and/or line of work,–it is not one of life’s necessities.
So why would we put on a Babydoll, Bodystocking, Bodysuit, Bodice, Bustier, Camisole, Chemise, Corset by bone, Corselet, French maid, fantasywear, G-String/Thong, Garter, Garter belt, Girdle, and so and and so forth?
Now if you enjoy lingerie why not indulge yourself! Victoria’s Secret is a very popular merchandiser that carries may labels, even their own. They’ve got great marketing and seem to have stores in major shopping malls all over the US. Fredericks of Hollywood always seemed to have a sleezier streak however it’s all about marketing and attitude.
Whatever turns you on, so to speak, is what should determine where you shop and what you buy.Black or white spandex t-shirts and red g-strings: that’s my current lingerie uniform and it can hardly be called lingerie at all. It’s much too practical. I use this combination as underwear, sleepwear and outerwear…well, actually I DO pull on a pair of slacks if I should wander outside.
Now in addition to creating a more pleasing frame to hang clothes on, lingerie is used as sleepwear. And I don’t mean simply sleeping in one’s underwear because some lingerie sleepwear is never worn as underwear at all but strictly for sleeping or rather…
Some nighties are actually meant as tools of seduction. Meaning by wearing this or that we are intending to make ourselves more sexually appealing. Now I don’t know honestly why this works. Have we been so well trained that women wearing “sexy” lingerie are more sexually appealing than women who don’t put such lingerie?
Don’t you have a heightened feeling when you are dressed up compared when you are wearing grundge? With that heightened feeling comes a more confident and vibrant attitude too. So, maybe dressing in sexy lingerie gives us a sexier attitude which also, at least in part is making us more sexually attractive. Whatever.
It doesn’t have to be deep. Have fun.
Lingeries is a general term used form women’s undergarments and sleepwear. It can also be used as a stage prop or element of seduction.
Panties, Peignoir, Petticoat, Pettipants, Robe, Slip (Full slip and Half slip / Underskirt), Spanky-Pants, “Spankies” , Tanga, Tap Pants, Teddy, Undergarment, Unitard…
Have you even heard of all of those? I know some were new for me, too. If you are in need of a smoother, curvier or less voluptuous foundation to put your clothes on or you want to feel/be sexier in or out of bed why not indulge yourself in some mail order lingerie?
Special Needs:
Full Figure Fashion: Bare Necessities has great bras for us full figured girls.
Sport Bras: For those of us engaged in vigorous pursuits like aerobics videos, stairmasters, jogging and the like.
Oh, and let’s not forget the sexy shoes…which are probably for the indoor or outdoor show…
The Truth About Glycol Distearate…
Yeah, another of my shampoo ingredients. What is this stuff??
This is a tiny, very tiny wax flakes in the shampoo. They are used to give the soap a opalescent color effect when reflections of light bounce off it. It also gives the soap that smooth creamy feeling. It is made from Crystalline Ester which is natural Stearic Acid & Ethylene Glycol, combined with an emulsifier (Steareth-4) for easy handling and as a thickening agent.
It is hard to find information beyond that from the leading sources. It seems that virtually no research has been done on this product. It’s toxic effects are unknown, but considered safer than most alternatives. I have found also that it is readily available for sale in which you buy 250 pound drums.
Glycol Distearate is considered a safer alternative to siloxanes which are a known environmental danger.
Written by Jennifer Hitchcock - Visit WebsiteThe Truth About Ammonium Laureth Sulfate…
It is considered gentle and effective when rinsed off. It is not intended for prolonged contact with the skin and it is recommended that a product not be made up of more than 1% of this ingredient. Products that are rinsed off immediately, however, usually do contain more than this 1% concentration, like shampoos for example.
These are products that allow the oil and water based ingredients to mix acting as both a detergent and a surfactant. There are usually two or more surfactants of these in a product because they need buffering. They belong to a family of man made anionic surfactants which are used wide spread world wide in most beauty products, shampoos, and laundry detergents.
This product is not really good for your skin. It will when rinsed off leave the area clean, but it will have taken the moisture from the top layers of the skin with it. It can cause people with sensitive skin to have a flare of whatever there sensitivity is be it acne, eczema, psoriasis, or a chemical sensitivity.
- Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate - very, very, harsh
- Ammonium Laureth Sulfate- very harsh but better than the above
- Sodium Lauryl Sulfate- better than the above, but still a little harsh
- Sodium Laureth Sulfate-gentle, great pick!
- TEA lauryl Sulfate-good pick
- TEA Laureth Sulfate-good pick