Year: 2019

May 16, 2019 at 06:30PM by CWC So you finally decoded the (many) labels you can find on an egg carton—no, natural doesn’t always mean better, and opting for brown eggs won’t score you the same benefits as choosing brown rice over white—and landed on organic equals healthy. Seems reasonable, right? Well, spoiler alert: The “organic” label doesn’t automatically mean you’re getting the best eggs money can buy (cue shocked gasps). According to Jesse Laflamme, owner and chief executive farmer at Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs®, judging the quality of an egg is a little more nuanced than looking at one label. “Believe it or not, a factory farm housing millions of hens can still bear the USDA Organic seal.” “It all boils down to the farm,” Laflamme explains. “Believe it or not, a factory farm housing millions of hens can still bear the USDA Organic seal. At Pete and Gerry’s, we take pride in the quality of our organic, free-range eggs from our small family farms. Our company is committed to small-scale farming because we are dedicated to the humane treatment of animals, sustainability, and the restoration of the small family farm to the American landscape.” So how exactly does that translate to the egg you’re adding to the top of your avo toast? We put together this handy chart to help you in your search for the best organic eggs possible. Scroll down for all the deets on how to find the best organic eggs, with intel straight from

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May 16, 2019 at 03:00PM by CWC I remember many of my dreams, and boy are they weird. Certain themes and locations recur in my nighttime adventures (I dream about being trapped in a mall, being on airplane that’s on the highway, and about going to Disney World all the time), but one of the most common and emotionally confusing situations is when I dream about certain people from my past. So I went straight to a dream expert to answer the all too common question: Why do I keep dreaming about my ex? First things first: I’m definitely not alone in this slumber-induced phenomenon. “Dreaming about your ex is super common,” says Lauri Loewenberg, author and certified dream analyst. It can happen whether you’re currently in a happy relationship (as I am) or not. But the meaning to be teased out from them likely doesn’t have much to do with your ex specifically. “The context of the dream makes a big difference in what it means,” she says. A big misconception is that dreaming about your ex signifies you want that person back in your life; after all, why else would your subconscious keep visualizing them. But Loewenberg suggests to think less literally: “Usually [the dream] is not so much about your ex, but about what they represent.” Of course, this representation can be a whole plethora of things, so working to analyze each dream, which Loewenberg calls our “second brain” may be trying to tell you is key.

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May 16, 2019 at 12:42PM by CWC There are a lot of factors that go into the skin-care product selection process. First and foremost and by far the most important: the ingredients. Then, maybe, the brand, the price, and the packaging. But one thing you’re probably not thinking about when you’re perusing the shelves for the latest addition to your regimen (at least I know I wasn’t)? The cost per ounce,  AKA how much bang you’re actually getting for your buck. We had a collective “Aha!” moment in the Well+Good offices this week when Glossier announced that they would be re-launching their Super Serums in new sizes—up to 30 ml from the original 15 ml—without changing the price. So while consumers will still be spending $28 on the product, that $28 will go much farther than it did before because you’ll be able to get more use out of it, and ultimately, replace it less often. This got us thinking about which products on the market are offering up the best value for your beauty bucks: As in, are all of those $150 serums actually secret steals because of how much you’ll end up getting out of them? To figure it out, start out by dividing the total cost of the product by the number of ounces in the bottle, then take into consideration how much of the product you need to use (peep our guide to that here) and how often you’ll use it (i.e. only in the morning

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May 16, 2019 at 12:30PM by CWC I decided to have an abortion when I was 16 years old. I remember the night that I got pregnant. It was after homecoming. I had recently switched birth control, and the condom my boyfriend and I were using broke. We stopped after that, but it was too late. I was two weeks late for my period when my grandmother (who I was living with) told me that I needed to take a pregnancy test. It was positive. Everyone in my family said I should have an abortion. No one wanted me to have a baby. I was 16, my boyfriend and I had a toxic relationship, and we really had no way to properly support a child. I didn’t want to go that route at first. I thought I could raise it myself, or at the very least go the adoption route. But once I started looking into my options, I realized that adoption is way more complicated than how it looks on TV. I knew that I wasn’t truly capable of bringing human life into this world and taking care of it the way it should be. And I knew that even if I did have a child, all the people who would have judged me for an abortion would have judged me for going to the welfare office or leaving the child with my parents. It’s a double-edged sword. I’m from a small town in Georgia, where there’s no Planned

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